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Grant revealed Jackson’s vocals on the song sounded like an instrument. You just learn those things as you’re in the songwriting genre.” “The bridges in it, the format of the song, the way it kept moving. Gary Grant played the trumpet on “The Way You Make Me Feel.” “The groove, and the way that the 12-8 tempo works in ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’ … It just had that thing about it,” he told Billboard in 2017. The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits reports Jackson’s “ The Way You Make Me Feel” dethroned “Got My Mind Set on You” off the top of the chart. It all served to make an interesting and memorable music video that you might not have expected from the former Beatle, but the '80s gave it to you anyway.RELATED: George Harrison’s Son Let ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Release His Beatles Parody Song 36 Years After He Wrote It Michael Jackson sang like a saxophone on ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’ I can tell you that George had a really good time making our silly little video. This allowed everybody to be in on the joke. George saw it and said, "Gees, I can't have people thinking I can do that." So, I went back and re-cut it with a little jump in it that made it intentionally obvious that it was not George doing the flip or dance. Then I edited it to make it really look like George did it. I had a stunt double do the back flip obviously. Here is a portion of what Weis told me about that particular sequence: We had the entire crew and even all of the P.A.s pulling wires and doing their parts to make each item move along to the music." Another fun part of the video is about half-way through when Harrison hops up on the chair does a back flip and a little dance before plopping back down into the chair and continuing the song. When I asked Weis about these special effects that John McCallum helped coordinate he told me, "Those effects were created very manually. I had the pleasure of an interview with director Gary Weis, who created some of the very popular music videos of the decade including "You Can Call Me Al" by Paul Simon and "Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles. As the song progresses the room décor (even the taxidermy) begins to sing and dance along. Here is the music video for "Got My Mind Set On You" by George Harrison.įor most of the video, Harrison just sits in his chair with a very stoic look on his face playing his guitar and singing his song.

This video received heavy airplay on MTV and would be nominated for three MTV Video Music Awards including Video of the Year. was not happy with the first version, so they wisely asked director Gary Weis to get a little more creative and that resulted in the version that most of us are more familiar with. There were actually two music videos created for "Got My Mind Set On You". Yes, it is a bit repetitive, but I believe the fun music video created for it helped generate its popularity while introducing the former Beatle to a new generation. The song actually only repeats that lyric 14 times (though it also says "set on you" several times towards the very end as well). Many people feel the song just repeats "I got my mind set on you" over and over. It would reach #1 in four other countries and reach the Top 10 in 12 more making it an international success for Harrison. "Got My Mind Set On You" was released in October of 1987, hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January of 1988 (making it the most recent solo #1 single by one of the former Beatles) and would go on to rank #3 on Billboard's year end chart for 1988.

as a solo artist, it was the only one not written or composed by Harrison himself. Of Harrison's three #1 singles in the U.S. Many do not know this is actually a cover of a 1962 song originally recorded by James Ray. This issue we will cover "Got My Mind Set On You" by George Harrison. So this regular Flashback Video feature will serve to remember some of the music videos from the great '80s decade that made an impact on me in one way or another. It might not be as extreme as when the Buggles declared that "Video Killed the Radio Star", but there is no arguing that the music video certainly could make or break a song's popularity. Ever since the dawn of MTV and Friday Night Videos, the music video has significantly impacted musical tastes and pop culture.