I was about to go look up The Point when I got to your post.
First time I ever heard it was 1973 on a Beaumont radio station at about 6AM. They would play an album, no telling when...that morning the dj decided to put on The Point and play the whole thing. I set the radio to a timer for an alarm clock, turned it to just below its distortion point, nothing else was loud enough to wake us up. I’d turn it down to normal listening volume and put on the coffee...old drip pot in those days, Mr Coffee didn’t exist for at least 10 or 15 more years, and I hated a percolator pot. So I had to boil water...
I bought the album (with comic book) soon as I could find it, not a common item on record racks, and have worn out two copies. Lost the original and comic book years ago, leaky roof...Found the VHS of the movie in the 80’s, my brother finally found a copy and mailed it to me, we’re both huge fans of that album. Ringo Starr narrated a later version of the movie, that’s the one I have on VHS. Same movie, just a different voice, Ringo. Always a huge fan of The Point...
I played “Everybody’s Talking” sitting on the band room steps in high school, 1972. Along with a lot of other contemporary rock hits...Harry Chapin’s Taxi and Cat’s in the Cradle, Cat Stevens’ Moonshadow and Wild World, quite a few others...CCR, attempts at a couple of Zeppelin tunes on an acoustic...I can’t remember what else.
Nilsson didn’t have much on the air at the time, just Everybody’s Talking and Without You, only two I can remember. Without You was a pretty impressive song, I always liked his vocal range and the power in his voice in that song, especially compared to the mostly laid back feel of The Point.