Harry's House/Centerpiece

"Harry's House/Centerpiece" is the third song on side two of The Hissing of Summer Lawns, released by Asylum on November 17, 1975. Mitchell's own "Harry's House" interpolates "Centerpiece", the standard by Harry Edison and Jon Hendricks that Lambert, Hendricks and Ross recorded, so all three are credited as writers; her lyric is copyrighted July 3, 1975 to Crazy Crow Music. Wikipedia's summary of the album files it among its songs about a failing marriage and loneliness. The album was recorded in 1975 at A&M Studios in Hollywood with Mitchell producing and Henry Lewy engineering, and it was never a single; the album's only one was "In France They Kiss on Main Street".

Mitchell recorded a demo of "Harry's House", released on The Demos of Summer Lawns and in Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 3, played it at the Music Hall in Boston on February 19, 1976 (on Archives Vol. 4), and returned to it in 1998 on the shows released as Painting With Words and Music. Anne Haigis covered it on her album Fingernails. In 2022 Harry Styles named an album Harry's House after the song, and Mitchell said she loved the title. The upload in the hypersongs web is the album recording in Bernie Grundman's 2022 remaster, issued in the box set The Asylum Albums (1972-1975) on September 23, 2022.