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===Demo tracks and outtakes=== Aside from the seventeen songs issued on discs one and two of the original album,<ref name="Eds of RS p 137">The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 137.</ref> Harrison recorded at least twenty other songs β either in demo form for Spector's benefit, just before recording got officially under way in late May, or as [[outtakes]] from the sessions.<ref name="Badman p 10" /><ref name="Madinger & Easter pp 426-27">Madinger & Easter, pp. 426β27.</ref> In a 1992 interview, Harrison commented on the volume of material: "I didn't have many tunes on Beatles records, so doing an album like ''All Things Must Pass'' was like going to the bathroom and letting it out."<ref name="Womack p 26">Womack, p. 26.</ref>{{refn|group=nb|In other interviews, Harrison similarly likened his situation to being "constipated for years" artistically while in the Beatles.<ref name="Eds of RS p 137" />}} Harrison's solo performance for Spector included six compositions that, until their inclusion on the Deluxe editions of the album's [[#2020β2021|50th anniversary box set]], were only available on [[Bootleg recording|bootleg]] compilations, such as ''[[Beware of ABKCO!]]''<ref name="Madinger & Easter p 426">Madinger & Easter, p. 426.</ref><ref>Richie Unterberger, [http://www.allmusic.com/album/beware-of-abkco!-mw0000942420 "George Harrison ''Beware of ABKCO!''"], [[AllMusic]] (retrieved 2 March 2016).</ref> The six songs are: "Window, Window", another song turned down by the Beatles in January 1969;<ref>Huntley, pp. 18β19.</ref> "Everybody, Nobody", the melody of which Harrison adapted for "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp";<ref name="Madinger & Easter p 426" /> "Nowhere to Go", a second HarrisonβDylan collaboration from November 1968 (originally known as "When Everybody Comes to Town");<ref name=SLO3b>Leng, pp. 52, 78.</ref> and "Cosmic Empire", "Mother Divine" and "Tell Me What Has Happened to You".<ref name="Spizer p 220" /><ref name=RU06b>Unterberger, pp. 286β88.</ref> Also from this performance were two tracks that Harrison returned to in later years.<ref name="Badman p 10" /> He completed "[[Beautiful Girl (George Harrison song)|Beautiful Girl]]" for inclusion on his 1976 album ''[[Thirty Three & 1/3]]''.<ref name="Spizer p 220" /> "[[I Don't Want to Do It]]", written by Dylan, was Harrison's contribution to the soundtrack for the 1985 film ''[[Porky's Revenge!]]''<ref name="Harris p 72">Harris, p. 72.</ref> During the main sessions for ''All Things Must Pass'', Harrison taped or routined early versions of "[[You (George Harrison song)|You]]", "[[Try Some, Buy Some]]" and "[[I'll Still Love You|When Every Song Is Sung]]".<ref>Leng, p. 180.</ref><ref name="Madinger & Easter p 433" /> Harrison offered these three songs to [[Ronnie Spector]] in February 1971 for her [[Try Some, Buy Some#Planned Ronnie Spector solo album|proposed solo album]] on Apple Records.<ref>Madinger & Easter, pp. 433, 434.</ref> After releasing his own versions of "Try Some, Buy Some" and "You",<ref>Badman, p. 25.</ref> he offered "When Every Song Is Sung" (since retitled "I'll Still Love You") to former bandmate [[Ringo Starr]] for his 1976 album ''[[Ringo's Rotogravure]]''.<ref>Leng, p. 198.</ref> "[[Woman Don't You Cry for Me]]", written in December 1969 as his first slide-guitar composition,<ref name="Clayson p 280">Clayson, p. 280.</ref> was another song that Harrison revisited on ''Thirty Three & 1/3''.<ref name="IMM p 172" /> Harrison included "[[I Live for You]]" as the only all-new bonus track on the [[#2001|2001 reissue]] of ''All Things Must Pass''.<ref>Huntley, pp. 305, 306.</ref> "Down to the River" remained unused until he reworked it as "Rocking Chair in Hawaii"<ref>Huntley, pp. 60, 325.</ref> for his final studio album, the posthumously released ''[[Brainwashed (George Harrison album)|Brainwashed]]'' (2002).<ref>Leng, pp. 292, 303.</ref> Harrison recorded the following songs during the ''All Things Must Pass'' sessions but, until their inclusion on some editions of the 50th anniversary box set, they had never received an official release:<ref name="Unterberger p 288" /> * "Dehradun" (or "Dehra Dun") β written during [[the Beatles in India|the Beatles' stay in Rishikesh]] in early 1968, and unveiled by Harrison in a brief performance on [[ukulele]] for the 1995 TV broadcast of ''[[The Beatles Anthology]]''<ref name="Badman p 10">Badman, p. 10.</ref> * "Gopala Krishna" β also known as "Om Hare Om",<ref name="Madinger & Easter p 433" /> with all-[[Sanskrit]] lyrics,<ref>Rodriguez, p. 384.</ref> and described by Simon Leng as a "rocking companion" to "Awaiting on You All"<ref name="Leng p 78">Leng, p. 78.</ref> * "Going Down to Golders Green" β a [[Sun Records]]-era [[Elvis Presley|Presley]] parody based on the melody of "[[Baby Let's Play House]]".<ref name="Madinger & Easter p 433">Madinger & Easter, p. 433.</ref>
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