Written by: The Traveling Wilburys
Recorded: April-May; July 1990
Producers: George Harrison, Jeff Lynne
Released: 29 October 1990
Available on:
Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3
Personnel
Muddy Wilbury (Tom Petty): vocals, acoustic guitar
Clayton Wilbury (Jeff Lynne): vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, keyboards
Spike Wilbury (George Harrison): vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Boo Wilbury (Bob Dylan): vocals, acoustic guitar
Buster Sidebury (Jim Keltner): drums, percussion
Ray Cooper: percussion
‘You Took My Breath Away’ is the tenth song on Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3.
Tom and I did that vocal together, live, in one take.
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I like ‘You Took My Breath Away’, ‘New Blue Moon’. That’s a really fun album. There’s a lot of great lead guitar on that record from George, too.
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Carrie Fisher was thanked in the album’s liner notes for the song. When asked why she later explained: “I gave George Harrison that lyric (you took my breath away and now I want it back)…..and he used it in that song. It was from a poem I wrote when I was in my late teens. (17?)”
