harry nilsson Archive
14 Aug 2023
Take Five: Early Gems from Harry Nilsson
Though he was a songwriter of the highest caliber, singer-musician Harry Nilsson is often remembered for his sterling interpretations of the music of others. Nilsson’s covers of Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s […]
05 Sep 2022
John Lennon: Five Sessions Outside the Beatles
More of my “Take Five”… John Lennon is rarely thought of as a session musician; nearly all of his work was within the context of The Beatles, with wife Yoko […]
26 Mar 2020
What Was ‘Losst’ is Now ‘Founnd’: A New Harry Nilsson Album (Part 3)
Continued from Part Two … Harry Nilsson always had definite ideas about how his songs should sound. Even a listen to the piano-and-vocal demo recording of “Without You” from 1971 […]
25 Mar 2020
What Was ‘Losst’ is Now ‘Founnd’: A New Harry Nilsson Album (Part 2)
Continued from Part One … Though a number of posthumous releases followed Nilsson’s death (including several CDs’ worth of previously unreleased session material), Harry’s final project remained unfinished and largely […]
24 Mar 2020
What Was ‘Losst’ is Now ‘Founnd’: A New Harry Nilsson Album (Part 1)
Featuring an idiosyncratically spelled title that evokes memories of his 1977 LP Knnillssonn, singer and songwriter Harry Nilsson has returned with Losst and Founnd, his first album of new music […]
22 Jan 2015
Capsule DVD Reviews, January 2015 Part 2
Picking up where I left off yesterday, here are four more brief DVD reviews. Rockin’ the Wall Most people will agree that the communist regimes that ruled on the other […]