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Thirty Three & 1⁄3Studio album by George HarrisonReleased19 November 1976Recorded24 May–13 September 1976StudioFPSHOT (Oxfordshire)GenrePop rockLength39:15LabelDark HorseProducerGeorge Harrison Tom ScottGeorge Harrison chronologyThe Best of George Harrison (1976)Thirty Three & 1⁄3 (1976)George Harrison (1979)Singles from Thirty Three & 1⁄3"This Song" Released: 15 November 1976"Crackerbox Palace" Released: 24 January 1977 (US)"True Love" Released: 18 February 1977 (UK)"It's What You Value" Released: 31 May 1977 (UK)Thirty Three & 1⁄3 (stylised as Thirty Three & 1⁄ॐ on the album cover) is the seventh studio album by English musician George Harrison, released in November 1976. It was Harrison's first album release on his Dark Horse record label, the worldwide distribution for which changed from A&M Records to Warner Bros. as a result of his late delivery of the album's master tapes. Among other misfortunes affecting its creation, Harrison suffered hepatitis midway through recording, and the copyright infringement suit regarding his 1970–71 hit song "My Sweet Lord" was decided in favour of the plaintiff, Bright Tunes Music. The album contains the US top 30 singles "This Song" – Harrison's satire on that lawsuit and the notion of plagiarism in pop music – and "Crackerbox Palace". Despite the problems associated with the album, many music critics recognised Thirty Three & 1⁄3 as a return to form for Harrison after his poorly received work during 1974–75, and considered it his strongest collection of songs since 1970's acclaimed All Things Must Pass.Harrison recorded Thirty Three & 1⁄3 at his Friar Park home studio, with production assistance from Tom Scott. Other musicians on the recording include Billy Preston, Gary Wright, Willie Weeks, David Foster and Alvin Taylor. Harrison undertook extensive promotion for the album, which included producing comedy-themed video clips for three of the songs, two of which were directed by Monty Python member Eric Idle, and making a number of radio and television appearances. Among the latter was a live performance with singer-songwriter Paul Simon on NBC's Saturday Night Live. The album was remastered in 2004 as part of the Dark Horse Years 1976–1992 reissues following Harrison's death in 2001.BackgroundIn January 1976, four months after the release of his final album under the Beatles' recording contract with EMI, Extra Texture (Read All About It), George Harrison announced his intention to record for his own record label, Dark Horse Records. Harrison had formed the label in May 1974, when he signed a five-year distribution agreement with A&M Records. In addition to other Dark Horse artists, the contract called for four solo albums from Harrison, the first of which was due by 26 July 1976.After making the announcement at the annual Midem music fair in Cannes, Harrison spent the early part of 1976 involved in activities other than music-making. Foremost among these was the court case, in New York, for a long-running plagiarism suit launched against him by music publisher Bright Tunes, who contended that Harrison had infringed on their copyright of the Chiffons' song "He's So Fine" in his 1970–71 hit single "My Sweet Lord". While in Los Angeles in February and March, Harrison worked on a proposed documentary film of his 1974 North American tour with Ravi Shankar. On 20 April, he made a guest appearance on stage in New York with the Monty Python comedy troupe, dressed as a Canadian Mountie, as part of the chorus on "The Lumberjack Song". Michael Palin of the Pythons later recalled that Harrison looked "tired and ill"; author Peter Doggett attributes Harrison's poor health to a lifestyle increasingly reliant on alcohol and cocaine, following the failure of his marriage to Pattie Boyd in 1974.After beginning sessions for the album in late May, Harrison was struck down with hepatitis and unable to work for much of the summer. He first tried a chanting technique as a cure, as proposed in Paramhansa Yogananda's book Scientific Healing Affirmations, before agreeing to his partner Olivia Arias's requests that he seek conventional medical treatment, which was similarly unsuccessful. Arias then researched natural remedies such as acupuncture. Harrison's health was soon restored through a series of treatments in California with acupuncturist Zion Yu. Harrison later said: "I needed the hepatitis to quit drinking." The title for the new album, Thirty Three & 1⁄3, reflected his age at the time of recording, as well as the speed at which a vinyl LP plays on a turntable.Retrospective reviews and legacyProfessional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusicAll-Music Guide to RockBlenderChristgau's Record GuideB−ElsewhereEncyclopedia of Popular MusicMojoMusic StoryThe Rolling Stone Album GuideUncut7/10In a review for Rolling Stone following Harrison's death in November 2001, Greg Kot said of Thirty Three & 1⁄3: "'Crackerbox Palace' has a twinkle in its eye, the kind of song that had previously eluded the increasingly self-serious Harrison ... The tune's melodic sweep is nearly matched by 'This Song' ... The two tracks form the center of the guitarist's strongest collection since his solo debut." Having interviewed Harrison for Guitar World magazine in 1987, Rip Rense praised the solos on tracks such as "Learning How to Love You" and "Beautiful Girl", while opining of Harrison's "underrated solo [career]": "his work is my choice for best among the ex-Fabs for being the most substantial in melody, structure, and content. Thirty-Three and a Third, for instance, might yet be hailed as a minor masterpiece ..."In the 2004 Rolling Stone Album Guide, Mac Randall named "Beautiful Girl" as "one of the many highlights of his upbeat return to pop form, Thirty-Three & 1⁄3". Writing for The Word that year, Paul Du Noyer referred to the album as "the lost treasure" among Harrison's Dark Horse Years reissues, and in a concurrent review for Blender, he highlighted "Crackerbox Palace" and "Learning How to Love You" as the standout tracks.With some albums, the backstory is more fascinating than the music, but in this case the songs and performances are inseparable from the swirling circumstances enmeshed in their creation – romance, redemption, acrimony, epiphany. Thirty Three & 1⁄3 stands as a pivotal album in Harrison's body of work, the document of a man in the act of discovering exactly where he belonged.– Bud Scoppa, Uncut, 2018In another 2004 appraisal, for PopMatters, Jason Korenkiewicz wrote that the remaster "allows the guitars to ring, and the percussion has a crispness that was hidden in past releases". Korenkiewicz included "the magnificent 'Dear One'" among the album's "countless classic tracks" and considered that Thirty Three & 1⁄3 "features more consistent high points than any Harrison album since All Things Must Pass". Conversely, Kit Aiken of Uncut described it as an "oddly ordinary album" that reflected the "blow to his confidence and inspiration" as a result of the court's ruling on "My Sweet Lord". Writing for the same magazine in July 2012, David Quantick included Thirty Three & 1⁄3 among Harrison's best solo releases, along with All Things Must Pass and Cloud Nine.Robert Rodriguez has written of A&M's folly in parting with Dark Horse Records and thereby missing out on a work that would stand as "possibly [Harrison's] most commercial ever". Rodriguez adds: "If ever an album cried out for a tour, it was this lively, energetic, and colorfully upbeat collection." Former Mojo editor Mat Snow views it as a "confident, if not quite classic" album on which Harrison "had his groove back", while New Zealand Herald critic Graham Reid writes that Harrison got off to "a flying start" on his new label and he notes the consistent quality across the album, which includes "a more than decent treatment of Cole Porter's True Love". In his review of Harrison's 2014 Apple/EMI reissues, Alex Franquelli of PopMatters cites Thirty Three & 1⁄3 as an example of how "Harrison's artistic output remained coherent with itself" following All Things Must Pass, and he describes the album as "well above the average pop songwriting".Track listingAll songs written by George Harrison, except where noted.Side one"Woman Don't You Cry for Me" – 3:18"Dear One" – 5:08"Beautiful Girl" – 3:39"This Song" – 4:13"See Yourself" – 2:51Side two"It's What You Value" – 5:07"True Love" (Cole Porter) – 2:45"Pure Smokey" – 3:56"Crackerbox Palace" – 3:57"Learning How to Love You" – 4:13
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Artist: George Harrison
Speed: 33 RPM
Record Label: Dark Horse Records
Release Title: Thirty Three & 1/3
Material: Vinyl
Edition: First Pressing
Type: LP
Format: Record
Record Grading: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Grading: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Release Year: 1976
Record Size: 12"
Genre: Rock
