- This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)
Infobox Single
Name = This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)
Cover size =
Caption =
Artist =George Harrison
from Album =Extra Texture (Read All About It)
A-side =
B-side = "Maya Love"
Released =December 8 ,1975 (U.S.)February 6 ,1976 (UK)
Format = 7"
Recorded =
Genre =Rock music
Length = 4:11 (album version) 3:49 (single edit)
Label =EMI ,Apple Records
Writer = George Harrison
Producer = George Harrison
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "You" (1975)
This single = "This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)" (1975)
Next single = "This Song " (1976)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album =Extra Texture (Read All About It)
Type = studio
prev_track = "The Answer's at the End"
prev_no = 2
this_track = "This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)"
track_no = 3
next_track = "Ooh Baby (You Know That I Love You)"
next_no = 4"This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)" is a song by
George Harrison and the third track on his1975 studioalbum "Extra Texture (Read All About It) ". In December 1975, the song was released as the second single from that album in theUnited States , failing to chart in any singles chart. The single met the same fate in theUnited Kingdom when it was released the following February.The single became the final release by
Apple Records until the label was revived in the mid-1990s for The BeatlesBBC sessions album "Live at the BBC" andThe Beatles Anthology project. B-side "Maya Love" was pulled from Harrison's1974 album "Dark Horse".Lyrically, the song is a sequel to Harrison's
1968 song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps ," released onThe Beatles ' "White Album."A second posthumous release of the song, believed to be recorded by Harrison in 1992, was published over the Internet in 2006 as part of the
Platinum Weird project.
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