"Soft-Hearted Hana" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison from his 1979 album '' George Harrison''. In North America, it was also issued as the B-side of the album's lead single, "

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", while in Britain and some other markets it was the B-side of the follow-up, " Love Comes to Everyone". The lyrics recall Harrison's experiences under the hallucinatory effects of

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while holidaying on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The song title refers to

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, a remote town on the island, and is a play on that of the 1920s

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tune " Hard Hearted Hannah". Harrison began writing the song in Los Angeles in response to

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, a staff producer at

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, suggesting he compose something in a similar style to his 1971 track "

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". He wrote the lyrics in Hawaii in February 1978, during the main writing period for ''George Harrison'', his first album in over two years. Recorded at Harrison's FPSHOT studio in Oxfordshire, the track features dobro,

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piano,

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and prominent chorus vocals, as well as voices and sounds captured in his local pub. The musical arrangement recalls the music hall tradition, while the composition's old-time qualities reflect Harrison's earliest influences from the pre-

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era. The other musicians on the recording include

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and Stevie Winwood. The song's lyrics employ, variously, psychedelic imagery, rhyming slang, humorous non sequiturs and John Keats-like symbolism. The song was well received by several music critics and revealed a comedic side of Harrison that was relatively unfamiliar to listeners. Author Simon Leng recognises "Soft-Hearted Hana" as the start of the "Pythonization of Harrison's music",Leng, p. 226. referring to the Monty Python comedy troupe and Harrison's role as a film producer of British comedies such as ''

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''.

Background and inspiration

Having taken most of 1977 off to travel with the

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, George Harrison decided to record a new album of songs to satisfy the demands of his racing driver friends and to repay the patience of

, the company that distributed his Dark Horse record label.Mick Brown
"A Conversation with George Harrison"
''

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'', 19 April 1979 (archived version retrieved 23 November 2017). During a conversation about the album in Los Angeles with the company's executives,Harry, p. 347.

, a Warner's staff producer, expressed his admiration for "

", the B-side of Harrison's 1971 single " Bangla Desh"; Templeman suggested he write another song in that style. Harrison came up with the music for the new song that night, using similar chords to "Deep Blue".Harrison, p. 352. He said that it was a "more 'up'" tune than "Deep Blue", which was "down" and written about his mother's deterioration from cancer, but he was unable to find the right lyrics at first. Harrison then went to

on the Hawaiian island of Maui in February 1978,Madinger & Easter, p. 457. where he finished the song during a fruitful period for his songwriting. He titled it "Soft-Hearted Hana" after the town of Hana, and as a play on the title of "

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".Rodriguez, p. 177. The latter was a 1920s

standardInglis, p. 68. that Harrison had become familiar with through a 1961 recording by

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, which was produced by

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' producer. Harrison's inspiration for the "crazy" lyrics came from ingesting

, which he said was his first experience of hallucinogenic drugs for perhaps ten years. He also wrote "

Here Comes the Moon "Here Comes the Moon" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison from his 1979 album ''George Harrison''. Harrison wrote the song while on holiday on the Hawaiian island of Maui in February 1978. His inspiration for the composition was th ...

" during this time, drawing inspiration again from the lush natural surroundings on MauiHarrison, p. 6. and from the magic mushrooms.Clayson, p. 368.Timothy White, "George Harrison – Reconsidered", '' Musician'', November 1987, p. 55. Another new composition was "Sooty Goes to Hawaii", a comedy song that Harrison wrote about

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, the popular

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character from British television.Dave Thompson, "The Music of George Harrison: An album-by-album guide", '' Goldmine'', 25 January 2002, p. 18.

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– Harrison's girlfriend at the time, and soon to be his wife – recalls that this visit represented the start of their "love affair with Hawaii", as well as providing the inspiration for "Soft-Hearted Hana" and other songs on the 1979 album '' George Harrison''.

Composition

Author Simon Leng says that "Soft-Hearted Hana" was Harrison's "first obvious drug song" since his 1967 composition for the Beatles "

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". He recognises the mood as similar to Harrison's rustic,

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-inspired songs on his 1970 triple album ''

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'',Leng, pp. 204–05. while author Robert Rodriguez describes the song as

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. In the lyrics, Harrison recounts his episode under the influence of mushrooms, and recalls their hallucinatory powers. Among the psychedelic imagery he employs, he describes the sensation of feeling elevated far above the ground, with his legs appearing to be "like high-rise buildings" and his head so "high up in the sky" that he began to "fry like bacon".Harrison, p. 351. Author Ian Inglis identifies several " Dylanesque characters" in the narrative, including "Richard III", "Seven naked native girls" and "Lone-ranger smoking doobies". Another individual asks Harrison whether they had not just met "up on Haleakala", referring to the

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overlooking Hana. These phrases appear in the song's two middle-eights, which are separated by an instrumental passage played over the same chord sequence as the verses. Inglis comments that whereas Harrison's songs from earlier in the 1970s "

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" and " Tired of Midnight Blue" offer a self-rebuke on drug-taking, the singer reacts to the characters he encounters in "Soft-Hearted Hana" with the statement: "I'm still smiling." Leng notes the effectiveness of the rhyming slang in Harrison's reference to Richard III, and says that the second middle eight represents "the longest string of deliberate non sequiturs" in Harrison's oeuvre: Hana Maui - panoramio

In the final verse, the narrative changes as Harrison sings earnestly of his new, idyllic home, referring to Hana as "she". He pictures the town "beneath the crater, in the meadow" and surrounded by vegetation. Inglis likens Harrison's female personification of Hana amid "fruit and grain" to a literary device employed by English poet John Keats in his " Ode to Autumn". He cites this similarity when concluding that "comparisons between the Beatles and the young Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century (Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Keats, among others) may legitimately extend to their creative use of language, as well as their public fascination."

Recording

Harrison recorded "Soft-Hearted Hana" at his home studio, FPSHOT, in Oxfordshire during sessions held between April and October 1978. The recording coincided with a period of tranquility in his lifeMadinger & Easter, p. 457. as he and Arias awaited the birth of their first child. Rather than with Templeman, Harrison produced the album with

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, another Warner Bros. staff producer. Titelman's previous projects included Ry Cooder's ''

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'', a 1976 album that reflected Cooder's adoption of Hawaiian musical influences. The musicians accompanying Harrison on the song were keyboard player

and the rhythm section of

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(bass) and Andy Newmark (drums). The horns for this and other songs on the album were arranged by

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and recorded at

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in London. As on "Deep Blue" in 1971, the lead instrument on "Soft-Hearted Hana" is a dobro, played by Harrison. Authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter consider the song's arrangement to be in the music hall tradition, aside from the inclusion of the dobro.Madinger & Easter, p. 458. The piano part was performed by Larsen in the style of ragtime pianist

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. Newman's horn arrangement included a prominent

part, while chorus vocals on the "I'm still smiling" middle-eights were sung by Harrison and Steve Winwood. The singalong mood of the track was furthered by the inclusion of spoken voices and background sounds, evoking a party scene. These parts were recorded at Harrison's local pub in Henley-on-Thames, the Row Barge. At the end of the song, the recording was subjected to heavy varispeeding, creating dramatic changes in pitch during the

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Release and reception

''George Harrison'' was released on Dark Horse Records on 20 February 1979. "Soft-Hearted Hana" was sequenced as the fourth track, between "Here Comes the Moon" and the album's lead single, "

". In North America, "Soft-Hearted Hana" was issued as the B-side of "Blow Away", which was released on 16 February. In Britain, it appeared as the B-side of the follow-up single, " Love Comes to Everyone", which was originally scheduled as the lead single there. That same year, Harrison furthered his ties to Hawaii when he bought Kuppu Qulua, a property in Nahiku, near Hana. In the album credits, he dedicated "Soft-Hearted Hana" to Bob Longhi, who owned Longhi's restaurant in

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, on the opposite side of Maui from Hana.Clayson, p. 368. Harrison did minimal promotion for the album, content to let the music make its mark as he focused on establishing

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to finance ''

'' and other Python-related film projects.Snow, p. 68. The album received favourable reviews from music critics. In ''

'', Stephen Holden wrote: "''George Harrison'' is refreshingly lighthearted ... The arrangements are the most concise and springy to be found on any Harrison record. ' Not Guilty,' 'Here Comes the Moon' and 'Soft-Hearted Hana' transport us back into psychedelic lotus land, but their tone is so airy and whimsical that the nostalgia is as seductive as it is anachronistic." Writing in '' Melody Maker'', E.J. Thribb also welcomed the release, saying that "light-heartedness seems to infiltrate the music on this album, almost to the point of light-headedness", and he added of "Soft-Hearted Hana": " Eric Clapton first played me this a while back, and chuckled gently over the curious wobble speeds employed in the final chorus ... If you're not ready for it, you could fear your turntable has developed

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."E.J. Thribb, "George Harrison: ''George Harrison'' (Dark Horse)", '' Melody Maker'', 24 February 1979, p. 29. Harry George of the ''

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'' credited Harrison's happiness with Olivia as the impetus for an album that was "a revelation compared to its predecessors" and he praised Harrison's guitar playing, saying: "'Soft-Hearted Hana' finds our hero out of his box at a party, McCartneyesque backing vocals and bucolic bottleneck showing a lightness of touch not seen in years. Ideal for poolside or fireside." Writing in 1981, ''NME'' critic

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rated the production, musicianship and musical arrangements throughout the album as the equal of the Beatles' work and said that the song "showed a facility n Harrisonfor switching style and mood that, again, rendered comparisons with the Beatles not at all invidious".Woffinden, p. 106.

Retrospective assessment and legacy

In his retrospective review for

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, Richard Ginell was unimpressed by the album but he recognised "Soft-Hearted Hana" as one of the rare "quirks" among a mostly bland collection of songs and "a strange, stream-of-consciousness Hawaiian hallucination".Richard S. Ginell
"George Harrison ''George Harrison''"

(retrieved 23 November 2017). Writing for

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, Chris Ingham said that ''George Harrison'' was worth the two-year wait and, just as "Blow Away" "perfectly conveys the breezy change of mood" Harrison had undergone, "Soft-Hearted Hana" "jazzily details his experience with magic mushrooms". Among Harrison and Beatles biographers, Simon Leng views the song as the first instalment of the "Pythonization of Harrison's music", the "culmination" of which came with the 1981 track " Save the World". Chip Madinger and Mark Easter recognise the song as an early indication of Harrison's fondness for popular music from the pre-

era. They remark on its significance as an original composition, rather than an updated cover in the manner of Harrison's version of the Cole Porter standard " True Love", which Harrison released on his 1976 album ''

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''. Harrison subsequently indulged his love of 1930s jazz, specifically Cab Calloway, in two of the songs he wrote for the soundtrack of the 1986 HandMade comedy ''

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'': " Hottest Gong in Town", which again features a Morton-style piano part, and "

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". Robert Rodriguez says that "Soft-Hearted Hana" is one of the "standout tunes" on an album that ranks among the best Beatle solo releases of the 1970–1980 period. While he credits Titelman with reining in Harrison's "increasingly idiosyncratic" tendencies at a time when his music had little in common with contemporary rock and pop trends, Rodriguez expresses surprise that Harrison did not play

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on the track, given his attachment to the instrument and to Hawaii.Rodriguez, pp. 177, 366.

Personnel

According to Simon Leng: * George Harrison – vocals, acoustic guitar, dobro, backing vocals *

– piano *

– bass * Andy Newmark – drums *

– horn arrangement * Steve Winwood – backing vocals

Notes

References

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, ''The Beatles Solo: The Illustrated Chronicles of John, Paul, George, and Ringo After the Beatles'' (Volume 3: ''George''), Race Point Publishing (New York, NY, 2013; ). *

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, ''Working Class Mystic: A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison'', Quest Books (Wheaton, IL, 2011; ). *

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