Non-Hit Hits Top Ten: Here Comes the Sun (#7)

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While I’m doing this countdown to fulfill a request from Scar’s Hoomin I’m unintentionally doing something else, probably: shocking the daylights out of a lot of you. I’m looking at some well-known songs that were never either released as a single; or, if they were, didn’t make the top 40, and are still very popular as if the’d been a #1 hit. And will you look at this one! #7: Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles If I do another series (or two or three) of this theme there’ll probably be a Beatles song on every list. Given their legendary status it’s safe to say that “everybody” knows a Beatles song. In this case, we’re talking about a truly iconic Beatles song, one of George Harrison’s best compositions in the band that Paul McCartney was in before Wings. From Richie Havens’ cover to that great SNL gag when Eric Idle hosted and kept trying to sing it to the unofficial song of the first day of spring (“little darling, it’s been a long, cold, lonely winter”), “Here Comes the Sun” is simply ingrained in music. And to think it was NOT a single. Seriously. All that knowledge you have of the song came either from owning Abbey Road or hearing it on FM rock all the time. But aren’t you glad we do know it! Here Comes the Sun Written by George Harrison Recorded by The Beatles From Abbey Road, 1969 Billboard peak chart position: not released as a single I feel that ice is slowly melting: