the Nilsson thread
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I relish it everyday. Some fun in the spirit of the Schmil.
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Goin' where the weather, suits my clothes
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skippin off of the ocean, like a stone
WWWAAAAaaaa you're the man Jordan, for giving a quick props to the great Harry Nilsson!
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Listening to this song a lot recently, such an uplifting piece of music.
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Picked up a greatest hits, enjoying it so far. I will report back when I've given it a thorough listen! One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
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Watched a little of the Nilsson documentary on my computer and messed around with Snag It. Cool Pics
check em out.
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Great pictures, thanks for sharing. A very popular man indeed!
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JordanOnTheRun:
Great pictures, thanks for sharing. A very popular man indeed!
Such a great circle of friends Harry had. He was the ultimate in crowd guy. plus he partied with everyone! I have more pics of him and people, will post them some time. You been listening to any cool Nilsson stuff lately Jordan? I'm loving the 'Knnilssonn' album, been hooked (pardon the pun) on that one for a while. Thats my most recent vinyl pick up! The only ones I still need are Flash Harry, and the original Pandemonium Shadow Show. I love my Nilsson collection
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I only have a greatest hits album, I really dig those upbeat songs like 'The Puppy Song', 'Good Old Desk' and 'Cuddly Toy'. The more melancholy songs like 'One' and 'Without you' (originally by the great band Badfinger) - he can pretty much pull it all off.
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Man, Harry Nilsson is one of my personal heros! think about it; he was a successful recording artist who never toured. One of my personal heros in life
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dudes/dudettes, I just heard this story about Harry Nilsson. in this clip of the song Let The Good Times Roll, when they were recording it, Harry picks up a harmonica they had in the studio, for the first time in his life picking up a harmonica, and goofing off like they always were doing he was going to take a shot at filling the harmonica solo himself with something off the cuff. and this is what he did, starts 1:28 >
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Just saw this rapper, Asher Roth, sampled Nilsson's song Gotta Get Up! Good reason to bump this thread I thought!
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A while back our own audi turned me on to a musical cat named Adrian Belew, so I went out and picked up one of his records and was indeed impressed. Impressed mainly by his straight up studio acumen. the guy makes some very cool sounds, and can really play. anyway, just recently realized he took part in the Harry Nilsson tribute record back in 1997 I believe, cutting a cover of Harry's 1971 hit 'Me And My Arrow'. Adrian freaking NAILED this track. I honestly can say I like it better than Harry's. Now outside of Harry being a phenominal singer, in my mind he's an extremely creative writer, thats what I appreciate most about him, so it seems to me a lot of his songs could be done even better in the hands of the right artist. But props to Adrian Belew for a stunning yet true to the original, version of Me And My Arrow. Its like he took everything great about it and enhanced it. Fantastic.
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kapoo:
Have you ever watched a moonbeam as it slid across your windowpane?
Have you ever watched a moonbeam as it slid across your windowpane? Or struggled with a bit of rain. Or danced about the weathervane. Or sat along a moving train. And wondered where the train has been. Or on a fence with bits of crap around its bottom. Blown there by a wind beam. Who searches for the moonbeam who was last seen looking at the tracks of the careless wind beam. And moving to the tracks of the tireless freight train. And lighting up the sides of the weathervane and the bits of rain and the windowpane and the eyes of those who think they saw it happenI tell you what.. please listen to this song called Moonbeam by Harry. From Nilsson Schmilsson. First listen and read along with the lyrics, because they are so clever; double entendre, use of the word crap, all kinds of crazy stuff going on.. I wish it was easier to write like that, he was great at it? and then check out the images that this guys put up on YouTube to go along with the song. When I watch it it?s actually semi moving for me.. so relaxing, and the song just totally takes me away.. and the images even assist that more. Dig it
This shall be the last song I listen to tonight. A beautiful send off to my sleepy nights dreams..
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This is great, I like this guys cover of 'I Guess The Lord Must Be in NYC' w the 'Everybody's Talkn' teaser at the end
and here's a cool cover of someone doing Harry's 'City Life'. simple beauty. a girl named Pricilla Ahn doing 'the Moonbeam Song'. Lovely A guy named Sean Nelson doing 'Think About Your Troubles' Marianne Faithful doing Harry's 'Don't Forget Me' The alt-rock band Filter doing an interesting sort of industrial version of Nilsson's 'One' here's a clip of the great Van Dyke Parks who worked with Harry on the Popeye songs, performing the song 'He Needs Me' with some ensemble and finallyhere's some vid of John and Harry at the March of Dimes Walk-A-Thon in NYC, April 1974. This one has good quality audio, best I've seeen anyway Good night Harry Heads.
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One more nugget for ya, check out this Yoko Ono penned song called Silver Horse, and then compare it to Harry Nilsson's cover of it. You realize, Yoko actually was not a bad writer. Although at the same time Nilsson could make the phonebook sound good. Yoko Ono - Silver Horse (1981)
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Well I don't know about you guys but Yes I will be getting this book.
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Back in the day Harry and Phil Spector wrote a song together called This Could Be The Night. They ended up using it with a group called the Modern Folk Quartet, total Spector production, great writing by Harry. Total hit.
It was also used as the main theme for the 1966 film, The Big TNT Show, and later again as the theme song for L.A. DJ Rodney Bingenheimer?s popular radio show on KROQ. Spector took a co-writing credit for his trouble. ![](
Harry later pitched it to the Monkees, when they were doing his songs, I think they did at least 3 in total.. and this version is such a Nilsson?d out pop vocal melody, as on all his demo?s. nilsson?s one of those singers whos demo?s are a lot of times better than the release. though the Spector production suits the song I?d say. Just a really big sound. This is how Harry was throwing down demos, better than the band that was about to be doing it
producers actually had to ask Harry to sing demo?s down octaves cause the other artists would have too, they couldn?t hit the notes.
And here?s a clip of Harry doing it himself at home sometime in the early 90?s. I can?t remember if he alters lyrics at all but I recall there?s a great line about needing a piece of gum or something. But a great song really. And copying Spector?s arrangement/production to a tee in his, as Bdub did. Good song Harry!