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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Nilsson, always one of my favorites. Was nice to see an article on the man.
...Well I felt so sad and lonely, I threw my drink across the lawn,"
One of my all-time favorite Nilsson lines.
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....
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
Forgot..He was the Beatle’s favorite vocalist.
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
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.
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.
“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.
Everbody’s talkin at me....in my karaoke rotation...:)
Singing Coconut as an ape
https://youtu.be/Tbgv8PkO9eo
I wish he’d never met the Beatles, he would have lived longer.
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.”
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.
:)
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
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.
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.
“I wish hed 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.
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