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Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994), sometimes credited as Nilsson, was an American singer-songwriter who reached the peak of his success in the early 1970s. His work is characterized by pioneering vocal overdub experiments, a return to the Great American Songbook, and fusions of Caribbean sounds.
- Harry Nilsson Discography
These are the studio albums by Harry Nilsson, released by...
- Nilsson Schmilsson
Nilsson Schmilsson is the seventh studio album by American...
- One (Harry Nilsson song)
"One" is a song by American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson...
- Harry Nilsson Discography
These are the studio albums by Harry Nilsson, released by Tower Records, RCA Records and Mercury Records. His final album was released in 2019 via Omnivore Recordings.
Harry Nilsson est un auteur-compositeur-interprète américain né le 15 juin 1941 à New York et mort le 15 janvier 1994 à Agoura Hills. Chanteur doté d'une voix particulièrement étendue (trois octaves et demie), il rencontre un grand succès commercial avec les singles Without You , Everybody's Talkin' et Coconut , malgré sa ...
Nilsson Schmilsson is the seventh studio album by American singer Harry Nilsson, released in 1971. It features his hit songs "Without You", "Coconut" and "Jump into the Fire", and was nominated for three Grammy Awards.
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Harry Nilsson (born June 15, 1941, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died January 15, 1994, Agoura Hills, California) American singer-songwriter of immense talent. A self-taught musician who rose from working in a bank to become an international star, Nilsson had the distinction of once being cited by Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney as their favorite...
Nilsson was the son of Harry Edward Nilsson, Jr., and Elizabeth (née Martin) Nilsson. Soon after Nilsson Jr. returned from serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he and his wife separated, largely as a consequence of Elizabeth Nilsson’s struggles with alcoholism. Nilsson III, still a young child, remained in Brooklyn with his mother. His father’s absence had a lasting psychological impact on Nilsson. In 1952 he, his mother, and his sister relocated to southern California, where Nilsson attended parochial schools and learned to play the guitar and piano. At 15, he ran away from home and hitchhiked to Los Angeles. While trying to launch a musical career, he worked as a computer specialist for a Van Nuys, California, bank. Along the way, he began writing songs and adopted the mono moniker Nilsson as his musical identity.
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One of Nilsson’s first breaks in the music industry came when he collaborated on the writing of three songs with famed record producer Phil Spector. One of them was recorded (but not released) by the Modern Folk Quartet, the other two by the Ronettes. The first song penned by Nilsson to become a hit was “Cuddly Toy,” which was released by the Monkees in 1967. That year Nilsson signed a recording contract with RCA and released his debut album, The Pandemonium Shadow Show. Although the album was not a commercial success, it won praise from critics. Already in evidence was Nilsson’s remarkable velvety voice (singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb called Nilsson the best singer of their generation), which could be both warm and edgy as well as soar in high register. Using overdubbing techniques, Nilsson provided rich harmony backing himself. The album also made clear that Nilsson was an accomplished lyricist and master of melody.
His second album, Aerial Ballet (1968), contained all Nilsson originals except for Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talkin’,” which became the theme song for the film Midnight Cowboy (1969) and earned Nilsson a Grammy Award for best contemporary male vocal performance. Commissioned to write the film’s theme song, Nilsson had come up with “I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City,” which reached number 34 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but it was his cover of Neil’s song that captivated director John Schlesinger. Another single from the album, “One” (the “beep, beep, beep” rhythm of which had been inspired by a telephone “busy” signal), became a huge hit in 1969 for the rock group Three Dog Night.
Much impressed by the then relatively unknown singer-songwriter Randy Newman, Nilsson recorded the critically acclaimed Nilsson Sings Newman (1970). He also wrote and recorded the original score for an animated television movie musical, The Point, which included the hit “Me and My Arrow” (1971). Nilsson’s only number-one hit was his cover of Badfinger’s “Without You,” which appeared on his gold-selling album Nilsson Schmilsson (1971), produced by Richard Perry, who had won acclaim for his work with Barbra Streisand. “Without You” garnered Nilsson the Grammy for best pop male vocal performance. The album also featured the whimsically quirky “Coconut” (number eight on the Billboard Hot 100) and the raucous “Jump into the Fire” (number 27 on the Hot 100).
Nilsson was at the top his game, but he began to exhibit increasingly self-destructive behavior, leading celebrity friends on notorious extended binges of wild partying and succumbing to alcoholism and drug abuse, possibly a consequence of what some of those close to him characterized as his deep insecurity.
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Nilsson’s friendships with members of the Beatles led to musical collaborations in the early 1970s. He appeared in and recorded the soundtrack for Ringo Starr’s film Son of Dracula (1974). Nilsson also became a close companion of John Lennon (particularly during Lennon and Yoko Ono’s separation), with whom he recorded Pussy Cats (1974), an album of...
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Harry Edward Nilsson III (Brooklyn (New York), 15 juni 1941 – Agoura Hills (Californië), 15 januari 1994) was een Amerikaans componist, pianist, zanger en gitarist. Bijna al zijn werk werd onder de naam Nilsson uitgegeven. Aan het eind van de jaren zestig vertolkte hij met succes het liedje "Everybody's Talkin'" en in 1971 brak hij door met ...
"One" is a song by American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson from his 1968 album Aerial Ballet. It is known for its opening line "One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do". Nilsson wrote the song after calling someone and getting a busy signal .
