Talk:Harry Nilsson

I am sorry to interject, but could there, and shouldn't there be a small discussion about his personal life. This page mentions a son, but there is no intimation that there may be an ongoing legacy for this artist. - --Theavey 00:21, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Note: "Harry Nilsson" is his real name. That's the name he was born with. Please don't update this page to state that his real name was "Nelson", because it wasn't. Some reporter in the 1970's said that once, and the mistake refuses to die. According to all my sources (which include his half-brother Gary Nilsson and his son Zak Nilsson), the family name is Nilsson. Bjimba 17:29, 2005 Mar 2 (UTC)

Shouldn't there be a mention of "For the love of Harry: Everybody sings Nilsson"? Stevie Nicks sang one of the tracks and lists the rest of them. RussNelson 06:43, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

The song Everybody's Talkin' was also used on an episode of King Of the Hill, involving the character Bobby taking a journey on a Greyhound/Trailways/etc bus. Aug 7, 2006.

I think Everybody's Talkin' has been used countless times in countless TV shows, usually with a sense of ironic comedy. It might be impractical to note every instance. Froggywentcourting 20:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Run-on, words missing

Under the heading Early Years, something has gone wrong with the sentence that begins "Harry grew up with his mother Bette..." The next sentence seems to say that Harry's Uncle John taught Harry's brother Drake to sing properly. Is that correct? Also, not clear who was left behind and who moved. Froggywentcourting

What about his songs for the documentary The Story of Eric?

What about his song Lamaze for the documentary The Story of Eric? Didn't he do the soundtrack for it? I know that he wrote "I Am Waiting" and "Lamaze" for it. Did he do additional incedental music for it also? Ferris Urbanowski was quoted in The Journal of Perinatal Education Vol. 10, No. 2, 2001 as saying, "...Harry Nilsson, composer, musician, and Lamaze parent, who wrote the music for the film." Antmusic 15:53, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Harry Nilsson publicity photo.jpg

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I do not consider the Carey cover of Nilsson's version of Without you "irrelevant"

Recently, "In the meantime, Mariah Carey had a worldwide hit in 1994 with her remake of "Without You," featured on her album Music Box" was removed from the article because the user thought it was "irrelevant." I don't consider Mariah Carey's cover of Nilsson's arrangement of "Without You", irrelevant. I think it was very important in exposing what a great and timeless arranger Harry Nilsson was. It is actually why I sought out Nilsson's version (and everything else he did), and it may be why many other people did too. Should this be voted on whether or not it gets put back in? Antmusic 03:11, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

• It is irrelevant to the Harry Nilsson article as he was not the composer of "Without You," nor did he record and release the original version (it was composed by Pete Ham and first released on his group Badfinger's LP No Dice). The inclusion of the information about Carey's version should be in the "Without You" article instead. 147.70.242.40 23:17, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

It was his arrangement of the song that she re-made... not the Badfinger arrangement (yes they wrote it, but we know how much Nilsson played with his re-makes). Antmusic 23:47, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Should there...?

Should there be a mention that although Nilsson initially got his reputation for his compositions, his two biggest hits, chart-wise and sales-wise, were composed by others? 147.70.242.40 23:25, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:S241778.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:06, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

You Can't Do That

Could someone make a clearer sentence or sentences out of:

This may have been helped by the track "You Can't Do That", in which Nilsson covered one Beatles song but added 22 others in the multi-tracked background vocals

Are there really 22 Beatles songs in the background? (John User:Jwy talk) 22:23, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

He throws a lot of song titles (sung to their tune) in there... Off the top of my head, I know it contains: "You Can't Do That," "Day Tripper," "Strawberry Fields Forever" (but he says "Strawberry Beatles Forever" through), "Do You Want to Know a Secret," "I'm Down," "Baby You Can Drive My Car," "She's a Woman" (but he says "My Babe, don't buy me preasents" instead of "My Love"), "A Hard Day's Night," "Good Day Sunshine," "Paperback Writer," "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)," "Yesterday"... so that is 13 total songs... there are some other little bits I can't remember off the top of my head... Antmusic 21:33, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Nilsson not Nelson

I have seen in at least two current places (RateYourMusic and Martin C. Strong's The Essential Rock Discography that his birth name was Nelson, not Nilsson. This is untrue. Is correction of this misinformation notable? I have a documentary (death record) source if necessary. (I am also an amateur genealogist) Fantailfan (talk) 13:37, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Fact Tag

I removed the fact tag after providing a dozen or so citations, including the items that were individually marked for {fact}. If there are other items that users believe need to be cited, I suggest that the {fact} tag be added in-text rather than the page-level tag.Historymike (talk) 23:12, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Contact?

Was Nilsson's song 'Spaceman' in the 1997 film Contact? I am sure I heard it when I watched it on TV a few weeks back.