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"Try Some, Buy Some" is a song written by English musician George Harrison, first released in 1971 as a single by former Ronettes lead singer Ronnie Spector. The latter recorded this and other Harrison compositions, such as "You" and "When Every Song Is Sung", in London for a planned comeback album on the Beatles' Apple Records. The project was co-produced by her husband at the time, Phil Spector, whose temporary withdrawal from music-making in 1966 had forced Ronnie to reluctantly abandon her own career. After the single became only a minor hit, and following recording sessions that had been hampered by the producer's erratic behaviour, the proposed album was cancelled. In 1973, Harrison added his own vocal onto a new mix of the instrumental track and included the result on his album ''Living in the Material World''. Harrison wrote "Try Some, Buy Some" during sessions for ''All Things Must Pass'', his successful 1970 triple album, also co-produced by Spector. The song's austere melody was influenced by Harrison composing on a keyboard instrument rather than guitar. The lyrics reflect his perception of God amid temptations associated with the material world and take the form of a recollection of his first spiritual awakening. Ronnie Spector later admitted to being unable to understand the concept and disliking the song, and commentators have duly noted its unsuitability as a vehicle for her comeback. "Try Some, Buy Some" is notable for the extent to which Phil Spector employed his Wall of Sound production, as well as for being a significant commercial failure for Spector, in the manner of his ambitious 1966 production "River Deep – Mountain High", by Ike & Tina Turner. The recording features a choir and long, lavishly orchestrated instrumental passages, the musical arrangement for which was supplied by John Barham. Besides Harrison, the backing musicians include Leon Russell, Pete Ham, Klaus Voormann and Jim Gordon. The single's B-side was "Tandoori Chicken", an upbeat song in the rockabilly style. Some commentators question the inclusion of Harrison's reading of "Try Some, Buy Some" on ''Living in the Material World'' and view it in an unfavourable light, citing his struggle to sing in a key suited to the former Ronette. Having long been unavailable following its 1971 release – during which time she divorced Spector and attempted to relaunch her career without him – Ronnie Spector's version was reissued in 2010 on the compilation ''Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records''. A longtime admirer of the song, David Bowie covered "Try Some, Buy Some" on his 2003 album ''Reality'' and performed it on his tours in support of the album. ==Background and composition== George Harrison's song "Try Some, Buy Some" dates back to the recording sessions for his 1970 triple album ''All Things Must Pass'',〔Bruce Eder, ("George Harrison ''Living in the Material World''" ), AllMusic (retrieved 3 November 2013).〕 and was one of a number of tracks left over from that project.〔Huntley, pp. 49–50, 64.〕 In his autobiography, ''I, Me, Mine'' (1980), Harrison recalls writing the tune on an organ and, not being an accomplished keyboard player, having difficulties doing the correct fingering in both hands.〔Harrison, p. 214.〕 It was only when his friend Klaus Voormann took over the left-hand part, to play the bass line, that he was able to hear the piece as he had imagined it.〔Leng, p. 134.〕 Harrison musical biographer Simon Leng describes the tune as "the most extreme example" of its composer's "circular melodic" style, "seeming to snake through an unending series of harmonic steps".〔 As reproduced in ''I, Me, Mine'', Harrison's handwritten lyrics show the opening chord as E minor and the bass line descending through every semitone from E down to B, followed by a change to a B7 chord; the second part of the verse, beginning on an A minor chord, then follows a descending sequence that he writes as "A – A flat – G – – E – A", before arriving at D major.〔Harrison, p. 215.〕 Harrison acknowledges in his autobiography that the melody and "weird chords" came about through experimentation on a keyboard instrument, which allowed him more harmonic possibilities than are available on a guitar.〔 The song's time signature is a waltz-like 3/4,〔"Try Some Buy Some", in ''George Harrison ''Living in the Material World'': Sheet Music for Piano, Vocal & Guitar'', Charles Hansen (New York, NY, 1973), pp. 80–81.〕〔 similar to the verses of his composition "I Me Mine", the last track recorded by the Beatles, in January 1970.〔MacDonald, pp. 322–23.〕 Lyrically, former ''Melody Maker'' editor Richard Williams describes "Try Some, Buy Some" as "a typically Harrisonian hymn to his Lord",〔Williams, p. 161.〕 in keeping with the religiosity of ''All Things Must Pass'' tracks such as "My Sweet Lord", "Awaiting on You All" and "Hear Me Lord".〔Greene, p. 181.〕〔Rodriguez, p. 148.〕 Harrison biographer Elliot Huntley writes of "Try Some, Buy Some" delivering Harrison's Hindu-aligned devotional message "in television evangelist terms".〔Huntley, p. 94.〕 The song begins with the lines "''Way back in time / Someone said try some, I tried some / Now buy some, I bought some ...''"〔Harrison, p. 216.〕 before Harrison states that he opened his eyes "''and I saw you''".〔Allison, pp. 104–05.〕〔 According to Christian theologian Dale Allison, the lyrics are a "reflection on some sort of conversion experience", in which Harrison provides "before and after" comparisons.〔Allison, p. 19.〕 Before his spiritual awakening, Harrison sings of variously possessing, seeing, feeling and knowing "''()ot a thing''" until, Allison writes, "he called upon God's love, which then came into him."〔Allison, pp. 19, 104.〕 As in his later compositions "Simply Shady" and "Tired of Midnight Blue",〔Inglis, pp. 44, 53.〕〔Leng, pp. 150, 184.〕 Harrison refers to the drug culture prevalent in the music industry, in the verse-two lines "''I've seen grey sky, met big fry / Seen them die to get high ...''"〔Allison, p. 100.〕 Author Joshua Greene writes of Harrison's concern during the 1970s for friends who "wasted their time chasing sex and drugs and money",〔Greene, p. 202.〕 while Allison suggests John Lennon and Eric Clapton as being among the people on whom Harrison "personally witnessed the toll () drugs and drink took".〔 In addition to the song echoing the "lost and then found" message of many Christian conversions, Allison writes that "Try Some, Buy Some" demonstrates Harrison's incarnation among the "twice-born" in Bhagavad Gita terminology.〔Allison, pp. 19, 104, 106.〕 The same theme of salvation through reconciliation with his deity is present in Harrison's 1968 song "Long, Long, Long"〔MacDonald, pp. 282–83.〕〔Greene, pp. 98–99.〕 and would continue to feature throughout his solo career, in compositions such as "That Which I Have Lost" and "Heading for the Light".〔Allison, pp. 18–20.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Try Some, Buy Some」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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