Good Day Music Trivia Buffs. The (brief) story of The Chiffons Hes So Fine & George Harrisons My Sweet Lord. Hes So Fine is a recording by The Chiffons which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in the spring of 1963. One of the most instantly recognizable Golden Oldies with its doo-lang doo-lang doo-lang background vocal, Hes So Fine is also renowned as the plaintiff song in the now-infamous plagiarism case against George Harrisons My Sweet Lord. Hes So Fine was written by Ronald Mack, an acquaintance of the Chiffons members who set himself up as their manager after overhearing them sing in their high schools lunch room. Mack elicited the interest of Bright Tunes Corporation, a production company run by the Tokens who produced the Chiffons singing Hes So Fine and two other Mack compositions at Capitol Recording Studios; On February 10, 1971, Bright Tunes Music Corporation filed suit alleging that the current George Harrison hit My Sweet Lord was a plagiarism of Hes So Fine. The case did not go to trial until February 1976 when the judge ruled on the liability portion of the suit in favor of Bright Tunes, determining that Harrison was guilty of subconscious plagiarism. The suit to determine damages was scheduled for November 1976 but delayed until February 1981, by which time Allen Klein, Harrisons onetime manager who had been his legal adviser in the first phase of the suit, had become the plaintiff by virtue of purchasing Bright Tunes. The final decision was that Harrison himself would purchase Bright Tunes from Klein for $587,000—the amount Klein had paid for the corporation—and although litigation continued for at least ten more years that decision was upheld. The overriding reality is that Phil Spector produced both songs and it was his song production style arrangement made the two tunes sound so similar.
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 17:42:32 +0000
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