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Thirteen Reasons Why Harry Nilsson Is The Most
Music Aficionado ^ | November 4, 2016 | Erik Himmelsback-Weinstein

Posted on 11/07/2016 9:38:40 PM PST by Bubba Gump Shrimp

Harry Nilsson was arguably the most interesting man in rock and roll, but he may have been a bit too interesting for his own good. As an artist, Nilsson was willfully elusive and peculiar, and the wild swath of his creative output may have kept his legacy too far on the down-low. It certainly kept him under the radar of the likes of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, who've yet to give Nilsson his props.

Truth is Nilsson liked to work. So he became a chameleon who would change musical spots depending on the gig. He was an acrobatic vocalist who crafted impeccable pop tunes, but his highest charting song,

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Thirteen Reasons Why Harry Nilsson Is The Most Brilliantly Odd Figure In Rock History (original title, abbreviated above for space)
1 posted on 11/07/2016 9:38:40 PM PST by Bubba Gump Shrimp
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Nilsson, always one of my favorites. Was nice to see an article on the man.


2 posted on 11/07/2016 9:39:09 PM PST by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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"I woke up this morning, looked around, and she was gone...

...Well I felt so sad and lonely, I threw my drink across the lawn,"

One of my all-time favorite Nilsson lines.

3 posted on 11/07/2016 9:42:09 PM PST by Gargantua ("President Trump... nice ring to it..." ;^)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

I think it was 1973 when Harry was going to renegotiate his record contract, the company decided he wasn’t worth it anymore, so Harry asked John Lennon to talk to the executive. Harry got his two-million....


4 posted on 11/07/2016 9:45:59 PM PST by heights
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Well in the end, he lost his golden voice, and was an anti-gun nut, as well as a heavy pharma drug user.

But in his heyday, he was the best American White male pop singer of the rock era. The Sinatra of his time, and a great lyricist and good songwriter too.

It’s all right here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujBU32Ghvgs


5 posted on 11/07/2016 9:47:20 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Forgot..He was the Beatle’s favorite vocalist.


6 posted on 11/07/2016 9:47:51 PM PST by heights
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Got to meet Jon Voight on Wednesday. Couldn’t stop thinking about this song:

Harry Nilsson - Everybody’s Talkin’ (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AzEY6ZqkuE


7 posted on 11/07/2016 9:50:14 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Well, I was disappointed to learn his greatest song of all was not written by him.

And the Midnight Cowboy stuff was re-write and re-working of traditional songs by the Carter Family, Woody Guthrie and others. I’m not saying it wasn’t good.

He produced Lennon’s Rock n Roll LP, which I liked listening too way back when in the car. I had a cassette.


8 posted on 11/07/2016 9:51:56 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp
If you tuned in to the George Putnam Show on KIEV at 870 kilocycles on the AM dial at noon in the latter half if the 1970's and into the 1980's, this is what you would hear:

Harry Nilson:
Everybody's talking at me.
I don't hear a word they're saying,
Only the echoes of my mind...

George Putnam:
Yes, everybody's talking at you, now it's your turn to talk back. You at home and you here at our studios at the Arco Plaza, it's your turn to talk back. We're going to bring you the news, bring you newsmakers and celebrities, but most of all, we're going to talk with you.

9 posted on 11/07/2016 9:55:51 PM PST by Rufii
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“George Putnam Show on KIEV”

the secret radio meeting place of SoCal conservatives. I bet you even remember Terry Anderson getting his start as a caller.


10 posted on 11/07/2016 10:00:58 PM PST by Pelham (more than election, Rebellion)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Everbody’s talkin at me....in my karaoke rotation...:)


11 posted on 11/07/2016 10:01:32 PM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Trump, effective govt. that will be great for crony "art of the deal" capitalists)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Singing Coconut as an ape
https://youtu.be/Tbgv8PkO9eo


12 posted on 11/07/2016 10:39:18 PM PST by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

I wish he’d never met the Beatles, he would have lived longer.


13 posted on 11/07/2016 10:53:01 PM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Pelham

Go ask Alice...

“They were regulars at clubs like the Rainbow on the Sunset Strip, they formed a drinking club/softball team known as the Hollywood Vampires, whose members included Alice Cooper and Micky Dolenz, and shared a pad on the beach with Keith Moon and Ringo Starr.”


14 posted on 11/07/2016 10:53:18 PM PST by Salamander (With the lights out, it's less dangerous...)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

http://putlocker.plus/who-is-harry-nilsson-and-why-is-everybody-talkin-about-him-2010-full-movie-putlocker-megashare9.html


15 posted on 11/07/2016 10:59:17 PM PST by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

OMG, I love this website!

Thank you!

“A rare combination of pompousness and torpor, Kansas actually became a big deal in the 1970s. “

“The Eagles’ music is often classified as easy listening, which is fair to neither listening nor easiness. Their songs were typified by a lyrical pretension few have aspired to,”

LOLOL!!!

*whew*

I needed a giggle desperately...again, thanks.

:)


16 posted on 11/07/2016 11:00:29 PM PST by Salamander (With the lights out, it's less dangerous...)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Imho, his best lyrics and most beautiful melody are in the very simple song “Remember”.

Remember, is a place from long ago
Remember, filled with everything you know
Remember, when you’re sad and feeling down
Remember, turn around


17 posted on 11/07/2016 11:09:20 PM PST by Husker8877
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To: Rufii

Good God how I miss George! Chuck Wilder introed with “The original Talk Back with George Putnam”. Then the Voice of Thunder himself got it going for the next two hours, commercials and all.

Do you remember how, when Rush first went nation wide, George would call him “that Limbago fella on the left”? Because KFI 640 was to the left on the dial from KIEV! George was the best.


18 posted on 11/07/2016 11:10:09 PM PST by i get it
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To: Salamander

Yeah I spotted that, wondered if you knew about Alice and the Hollywood Vampires.

As for Nilsson, I just never did see the appeal of his music. I’d compare him unfavorably to Donovan from the same era.


19 posted on 11/07/2016 11:12:58 PM PST by Pelham (more than election, Rebellion)
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To: Excellence

“I wish he’d never met the Beatles, he would have lived longer”.

Sorry, but Lennon tried to get him help for his alcoholism, its childish to blame the “Beatles” for his death.


20 posted on 11/07/2016 11:13:56 PM PST by heights
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