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===''Apple Jam''=== On the original [[LP record|LP]]'s third disc, titled ''[[Apple Jam]]'', four of the five tracks β "Out of the Blue", "Plug Me In", "I Remember Jeep" and "Thanks for the Pepperoni" β are improvised [[instrumental]]s built around minimal [[Chord (music)|chord]] changes,<ref name="Clayson p 292">Clayson, p. 292.</ref> or in the case of "Out of the Blue", a single-chord [[riff]].<ref>Leng, pp. 101β02.</ref> The title for "I Remember Jeep" originated from the name of Clapton's dog, Jeep,<ref name="Spizer p 226">Spizer, p. 226.</ref> and "Thanks for the Pepperoni" came from a line on a [[Lenny Bruce]] comedy album.<ref name="Huntley p 60">Huntley, p. 60.</ref> In a December 2000 interview with ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine, Harrison explained: "For the jams, I didn't want to just throw [them] in the cupboard, and yet at the same time it wasn't part of the record; that's why I put it on a separate label to go in the package as a kind of bonus."<ref name="BB 2000">Timothy White, [http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/80788/george-harrison-all-things-in-good-time "George Harrison: 'All Things' in Good Time"], [[Billboard (magazine)|billboard.com]], 8 January 2001 (retrieved 3 June 2014).</ref>{{refn|group=nb|The face label on each side of disc three contained a jam jar painted by designer [[Tom Wilkes]], showing a piece of fruit inside the jar and two apple leaves on the outside.<ref name="Spizer p 228">Spizer, p. 228.</ref>}} The only vocal selection on ''Apple Jam'' is "It's Johnny's Birthday", sung to the tune of [[Cliff Richard]]'s 1968 hit "[[Congratulations (Cliff Richard song)|Congratulations]]", and recorded as a gift from Harrison to Lennon to mark the latter's 30th birthday.<ref name="Madinger & Easter p 432" /> Like all the "free" tracks on the bonus disc,<ref name="Castleman & Podrazik p 94" /> "It's Johnny's Birthday" carried a Harrison songwriting credit on the original UK release of ''All Things Must Pass'',<ref name="Smith/NME">Alan Smith, "George Harrison: ''All Things Must Pass'' (Apple)", ''[[NME]]'', 5 December 1970, p. 2; available at [http://www.rocksbackpages.com/article.html?ArticleID=20023 Rock's Backpages] (subscription required; retrieved 15 July 2012).</ref> while on the first US copies, the only songwriting information on the record's face labels was the standard inclusion of a performing rights organisation, [[Broadcast Music, Inc.|BMI]].<ref>Spizer, p. 230.</ref> In December 1970, "Congratulations" songwriters [[Bill Martin (musician)|Bill Martin]] and [[Phil Coulter]] claimed royalties,<ref name="Madinger & Easter p 432" /> with the result that the composer's credit for Harrison's track was swiftly changed to acknowledge Martin and Coulter.<ref name="Spizer p 226" />
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