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The song was written by Rudy Clark who had written, вЂIf You Gotta. George could instantly recognise that there was a keening, spiritual, quality in JamesвЂ™ voice that gave a profound allure to everything he sang. Spinning the platter back at 113 McCann he became especially fond of one track in particular вЂ“ вЂIвЂ™ve Got My Mind Set On YouвЂ™ and his love and admiration for the song would survive the madness of Beatlemania and the glory days of his solo career. He knew the name because The Beatles had been regularly featuring RayвЂ™s hauntingly other-worldly, вЂIf You Gotta Make a Fool of SomebodyвЂ™ since Paul had found a copy at Brian EpsteinвЂ™s NEMS Record Shop. His eye was particularly caught by an LP bearing the name of James Ray on the Caprice Label. He bought a lot of premium Blues and R&B sides by the likes of Booker T and the MGs and Bobby Bland. No one in the stores had ever heard of The Beatles but the shelves groaned with records that George had only ever read about in magazines or heard about from American musicians he had met in Hamburg. George, a true fan of music as well as a musician, had haunted the record stores in Illinois and NYC looking for gems that were hard to find at home. In his luggage, along with the precious Rickenbacker, was more treasure in the form of vinyl. George flew back to England on October 3rd. The patrons that night were the first Americans to hear George rip into, вЂJohnny B GoodeвЂ™, вЂMatchboxвЂ™ and вЂRoll Over BeethovenвЂ™. He also hooked up with a guy called Gabe McCarty a member of a local group called the Four Vests and on 28 September George took the stage with them at The Veterans Hall in Eldorado.

#Got mymind seton you tv#

He would play this on the pioneering UK TV Show, Ready, Steady, GoвЂ™ on 4 October.ДЄlong with Louise he hitchhiked to Radio Station WFRX and presented them with a mint copy of, вЂShe Loves YouвЂ™. On that trip he bought a Rickenbacker at the Fenton Music Store at 601 South 10th Street, Mt Vernon, IL for $400. George would always remember his first, incognito, exposure to American culture and wonder at the freedom of being able to wander at will wherever he pleased.

His time in Benton would be for George, as Paris and Greece would be for his fellow Beatles, the last time they could ever walk the streets of any town or city without being instantly recognised and/or mobbed. George, with brother Peter, went to Benton to visit Louise, arriving there on September 16th. John went to Paris while Paul and Ringo jetted off to Greece. Well, George was the youngest of the three Harrison siblings.Д«rother Peter was three years older than George but Sister Louise was 12 years older and long before The Beatles were even a madcap dream in the minds of John and Paul she had left the grim austerity of post War Liverpool to travel the world with her mining engineer husband.ДЄnd, in September 1963, she was living at 113 McCann Street, Benton, Illinois a coal town with a population of under 10, 000 souls.ДЄfter the release of вЂShe Loves YouвЂ™ in Britain in August 1963 Brain Epstein decided that in view of the immense workload they had already completed and the even more taxing plans he had for their future it was time The Beatles took a break. Embed from Getty ImagesДЇor though The Beatles didnвЂ™t land on the soil of the Promised Land until February 1964 George had spent two weeks there in September 1963. The вЂBritish InvasionвЂ™ had begun and from that day on for the rest of the decade there was no question about who the most popular and successful group in the world was and who were the most famous and instantly recognisable faces on the entire planet.Д«ut, before an invasion there is usually a reconnaissance.ДЄnd, for The Beatles, the scout was George Harrison. When they touched down at JFK they were greeted by scenes of pandemonium as fans and the media pushed and shoved to get their first glimpse of the Fab Four. Those passengers were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr вЂ“ The Beatles!

No, for Pan Am 101 was carrying a very special group of passengers whose arrival in America that day would change the course of History.

Thousands of young women, barely controlled by massed ranks of British Bobbies in blue, screamed and sobbed as the plane took off. On 7 February 1964 Pan Am Flight 101 took off from LondonвЂ™s Heathrow Airport bound for New York City. вЂA true message always gets through вЂ“ sometimes it just takes a whileвЂ™ (Immortal Jukebox) вЂItвЂ™s gonna take time, a whole lot of precious time вЂ¦.вЂ™ (Rudy Clark/James Ray)