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...Scheinfeldâs long, loving documentary, âWho Is Harry Nilsson? (And Why Is Everybody Talkinâ About Him?),â answers its title questions by implicitly changing the grammar. Serving up the usual stew of interviews and archival footage with a generous saucing of...
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...put this movie into your Netflix queue. Theres been so little written about Nilsson or archiving of his work that Who Is Harry Nilsson is a godsend just for bringing together so much rare footage. Who Is Harry Nilsson is a worthwhile portrait of a genius...
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...Nilsson is one of the great two-tiered artists in American pop: a musician whose biggest hits are widely known and generally well-liked, but whoâs even more adored by music buffs whoâve taken the time to dig deeper than âOne,â âCoconut,â and Nilssonâs smash...
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A wildly entertaining, star-studded documentary about The Beatles's favorite American musician, WHO IS HARRY NILSSON (AND WHY IS EVERYBODY TALKIN' ABOUT HIM)? is a vibrant and definitive portrait of one of the most talented singer-songwriters in pop music history. Directed by Emmy and Grammy nominee John Scheinfeld (THE US VS. JOHN LENNON), the film combines compelling interviews with Nilsson's family, friends and colleagues â including Brian Wilson, Randy Newman, Robin Williams, Micky Dolenz and Yoko Ono â with rare and never-before-seen archival footage, home movies, and excerpts from a recently discovered oral autobiography. The film delves deeply into Nilsson's artistic process, his spirited relationship with John Lennon, and the additions that haunted him in and outside the studio â as well as the peace he found as a devoted husband and father.
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...also famous for being The Beatles' favorite "group." Click here to read today's full Day in Pop report . Who Is Harry Nilsson? premiers at the Laemmle Sunset 5 Theater on September 17, 2010 in Los Angeles for a one week only showing and will expand...
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...Into the Fire" *or* "Coconut." Obviously. Itâs pretty surprising that this album even got made. The principals involvedâHarry Nilsson and producer/contributor John Lennonâhad both hit hard times around the time of its recording. Nilsson, after break-out success...
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The third single from his 1971 album, Nilsson Schmilsson, it reached #8 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and it features three distinct characters (the narrator, the sister, and the doctor) all sung in different voices by Nilsson. The entire song is played using one chord, C7.
Brief appearance of John Lennon & Harry Nilsson at the March Of Dimes Benefit in NYC on April 28, 1974. Filmed on Super 8 film by Fred Paskiewicz & Ralph Mucci.
Harry Nilsson - Without You
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There have been, so far, at least three different renditions of The Point!, each featuring songs written by Nilsson to accompany the story. There has been an animated film, an album, and a musical play.
I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I
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Singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips, who became a dad last year, says his happiness about that event is evident on his new CD, "Little Moon."
Imagine this dream musical maelstrom, a thundering herd of hits: Buffalo Springfield, Grant
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[MP3] Andrew Bird - Think About Your Troubles
Commissioning an entire cover album of Harry Nilsson's cult-classic The Point was a fantastic idea. Mad props to Amano Recordings for enlisting the likes of Dawn Landes, DeVotchKa, and Nada Surf. As if you
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Nothing shifts records like The X Factor, so judge Dannii Minogue
repackages three of her 1990s albums in advance of a new record next year. The
1995 Sessions promises previously unreleased material â a hard sell
given that many of us canât recall
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Absolutely fab :*
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âExcept for the stink and the heat and the mosquitoes, it was beautiful at night. Like being out in the country,â says Barb Johnson of living on her balcony post-hurricane Katrina and working on her collection of short stories, More of This World or
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Harry Nilsson, Nilsson Sings Newman: Imagine it; one genius doing another geniusâ songs. Both in their prime and both seemingly mad as hatters! Great studio banter too!
Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons, Death Wonât Send A Letter: Great songwriter
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Pate Magazine
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John Lennon raced into Yoko Ono's home office in the mammoth old Dakota building with a copy of Donna Summer's new single, "The Wanderer." "Listen!" he shouted as he put the 45 on the record player. "She's doing Elvis!" I didn't know what he was
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I had the soundtrack album to Son of Dracula when I was a kidâyou could buy it for 99 cents in any cut out bin in America in the late 70sâand although I didnât really like the music that much, it featured impressive album cover art that opened out
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In new book, music critic recounts time he spent with John Lennon By ROBERT HILBURN Special to the Los Angeles Times This photo of Robert Hilburn and John Lennon was taken in a New York recording studio in 1980, just a few months before Lennonâs death.
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I'm almost certainly not alone in expressing my guarded -- even conflicted -- anticipation at the forthcoming release of the "Where the Wild Things Are" film; it's a beloved children's classic filtered through a thrift store sheet-staining hipster's
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REQUESTED BY MY DEAR FRIEND PLAYMATE659 Nilsson added his voice -- slight, yet very distinctive -- to the outer fringes of the singer/songwriter movement. His early writing and singing hinted of a close familiarity with the work of Burt Bacharach and Hal David as well as Bob Dylan. "Everbody's Talkin' " (used in the film Midnight Cowboy) and "One" (a hit for Three Dog Night) are the catchiest examples of his orchestrated folk rock; both are included on Aerial Ballet. Along with the now-deleted late-'60s records The Pandemonium Shadow Show and Harry, this album earned Nilsson a cult following and a variety of well-placed fans. (In 1971, Nilsson selected and remixed tracks from his first two albums to create the whimsically titled Aerial Pandemonium Ballet, which might have legitimate claim to be the first-ever remix album.) The Point!, the soundtrack for an animated television special, positions seven sweetly melodic little song snatches between installments of a hippie-era children's fable. Somewhere in between the underrated Nilsson Sings Newman and his 1971 breakthrough, Harry Nilsson discovered rock & roll. Perhaps exposure to Newman's acute cynicism and corrosive insights toughened Nilsson's artistic stance. Many Newman fanciers insist that Nilsson gently waters down the impact of these songs, but his polished vocal style puts Newman's point across with unaccustomed subtlety. Nilsson Sings Newman offers a fine introduction to either artist. The juiced-up charge that ...
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"One of the great things about being in a band is that you feel like you're in a gang," Eleanor Friedberger, one half of sibling duo the Fiery Furnaces tells Spinner. "You can make up a new persona when you're in a band. That is what is so cool about
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Robert Hilburn was pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times for 35 years, from the psychedelic era to the emergence of the iPod. He witnessed many of rock 'n' roll's seminal moments and interviewed virtually every major pop figure of the period. All
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Sometimes there just aren't words. Then sometimes there are words, but nothing to write them about. Doug Paisley's album falls unhappily between these two positions. When there are good things to be said about it, the words don't come easily. When the
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With a voice that echoes Zooey Deschanel and Eisley, and a faithful band of jazzers lending grit to the earthy Americana-undertones of OK Sweetheart, Erin Austin plays music for the joy of it -- and it comes across in her playful, yet substantial tunes.
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...off, have you seen the documentary Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkinâ About Him?)? If not, you should get on that. This weekend the mailman delivered Songs From The Point, a collection of âindieâ artists each covering a track off the soundtrack...
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As pop stars go, they donât come much more interesting than Mika.
Born in Beirut 25 years ago, he and his family fled the war-torn city when he was just a year old for the altogether more bohemian metropolis of Paris.
And after almost ten years in the
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Classes are back in session, which gives us the perfect reason to tell you about Lamar Holley's newest album. Confessions of a College Student is an "autobiographical one-man pop-musical" according to its album cover. If Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman
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Harry Nilsson - Mother Natures Son (Lennon/McCartney) cut 3 from the compilation Nilsson Sings Beatles first on Harry, 1969 album playlist : www.youtube.com Please check out fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com for all things Harry !
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I was just listening to Harry Nilsson while driving back from lunch.
X-Rated film to win an oscar.
"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans
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December 8, 1980
It was almost 11pm in New York City and the singer-songwriter James Taylor was
at home in the Langham Building on Central Park West. Heâd just placed a
call to Betsy Asher, whose husband had signed him to the Beatlesâ Apple
label
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Harry Nilsson- Cuddly Toy - The Monkees Demos (1967) - RARE playlist: www.youtube.com Please check out fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com for all things Harry !
WITHOUT YOU / SIN TI / BEZ CIEBIE / FARA TINE / ΧΩΥÎÎŁ ÎÎŁÎÎÎ / SENSÄ°Z / SEM VOCĂ / ĐĐĐ ĐąĐĐĐŻ / BE TAVÄS / SANS VOUS / SENZA DI TE - the golden song by Harry Nilsson No I can't forget this evening Or your face as you were leaving But I guess that's just the way The story goes You always smile But in your eyes Your sorrow shows Yes it shows No I can't forget tomorrow When I think of all my sorrow When I had you there But then I let you go And now it's only fair That I should let you know What you should know I can't live If living is without you I can't live I can't give anymore I can't live If living is without you I can't give I can't give anymore Well I can't forget this evening Or your face as you were leaving But I guess that's just the way The story goes You always smile But in your eyes Your sorrow shows Yes it shows
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Why should jazz have all the fun? Pop and indie artists too seldom throw their creative weight into the art
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NPR is showing a little love to our own David Mead today (the singer-songwriter, who writes the Under the Radar column in our magazine, has started his own American Songwriter blog here).
Almost and Always is David Meadâs fifth full-length release. His
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While every family and group of friends has their own favorites that will forever bring them back to the summer of 2009, these standards can help you to create a memorable playlist for your Labor Day get together. Mix them in with your summer hit
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[MP3] Fun - Be Calm
Ruess still has one of the more memorable voices within indie pop and "Be Calm" shows how well it sounds with melodic strings, organ, and guitar crescendos. It's a great therapeutic track for opening the album and transitioning from
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This was my favorite when I was a teenager. Notice the great bass and drums, and remember when drummers used to have their own solo? This song is rockin'. Also, I've been told it was in the movie Good Fellas.
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Paolo Nutini is feeling a little rambunctious.
Having recently launched a full-scale North American tour after doing a string of dates in April to support his new release, "Sunny Side Up," the Scottish singer-songwriter is going through the requisite
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Neko Case blew into town Sunday night and made sure to perform one of the highlights of her new album: a cover of Harry Nilsson's heartbreaker "Don't Forget Me." Commenter DLC then asked for a brief on Nilsson. So, thanks to a grant from the Nilsson
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The rest of the night concentrated on this year's nearly perfect Middle Cyclone, with driving arrangements of the few songs with a beat (particularly an extra-Byrdsy "People Got a Lotta Nerve" and a steaming "Red Tide") and shimmering guitar lines
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MOON, Pa.âOn July 22, 1969, barely 48 hours after a human being first stepped onto the moon's surface, a community in Pittsburgh's western suburbs called Moon Township had a parade, as suburban communities do.
Understandably, Moon had achieved some
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On her most recent album, the shadowy âMiddle Cyclone,â Neko Case imprinted the style she has been honing over the previous two albums.
As she did on the live âTigers Have Spokenâ and then âFox Confessor Brings the Flood,â Case again manages to compose
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Big thanks to Peenko for originally posting this bootleg. I was going to pick through and post my favorite covers from it, but there are just too many (Harry Nilsson and the Magnetic Fields in the same set. Whaaaat?). So I decided just to share the
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Did Somebody Drop His Mouse? (Documentary of the Making of Son of Schmilsson, 1972)
(Part 2/5) here/ the rest is toobed as well.
(you can find part one on Bedazzled as a Quicktime download. For some reason it would not upload for me here unless it
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KZYR 97.7, KSNO 93.5/103.9
1. âNever Say Never,â by The Fray
2. âThe Great Defector,â by Bell X1
3. âCrack the Shutters,â by Snow Patrol
4. âSometime Around Midnight,â by The Airborne Toxic Event
5. âAirstream Driver,â by Gomez
6. âHey World,â by
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...and Mrs. Muir"... Thanks for posting this. I'd heard about this for years, and had never seen it. When do we get your next Nilsson comp? I've been dying to see Harry perform a song live for years. Thanks for posting this. Do you know how many and what songs...
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