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Although 'Norwegian Wood' had featured George on sitar, it had been as an afterthought. 'Love You To' was the first song written by George specifically for the instrument as, by now, he was studying seriously. On this recording, he also featured tabla player Anil Bhagwat. In his biography, I Me Mine, George recollected that he had used tabla and sitar on the basic track, overdubbing vocals and guitar at a later stage. However Mark Lewisohn, author of The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, gained access to the original tapes and discovered that the sitar didn't appear until the third take and the tabla wasn't added until the sixth. The song's recording title was 'Granny Smith' - after the apple variety - simply because George couldn't come up with anything better. As the words 'love you to' don't appear in the song, the eventual title is rather puzzling: perhaps: 'love me while you can' might have been more appropriate as this sums up what the song is saying. |
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