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Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, – January 15, was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early s. On all but his earliest recordings he is credited as Nilsson. He is known for the hit singles "Everybody's Talkin'" (), "Without You" (), and "Coconut" (). Nilsson also wrote the song “One” made famous by the rock band Three Dog Night. His career is notable for the fact that he was one of the few major pop-rock recording artists of his era to achieve significant commercial success without ever performing major public concerts or undertaking regular tours.
He was awarded Grammys for two of his recordings; best male contemporary vocal in for "Everybody's Talkin'", a prominent song in the Academy Award-winning movie Midnight Cowboy, and best male pop vocal in for "Without You."
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The Day That Harry Nilsson Died
Popular music lost one if its most original and criminally unheralded voices on Jan. 15, But really, Harry Nilsson was long gone before he died of heart failure at the young age of
It had been 14 years since Nilsson made an album, and 17 since one had been released in the U.S. He had retired from live performances long before that. But the string of records he released between and remain among the most listenable, influential and timeless (but, unfortunately, neglected) of the era.
Nilsson got his uppstart as a New York-based songwriter in the early '60s, working within the studio struktur that yielded hits for such high-profile execs and producers like Phil Spector. In , he released his first album, Pandemonium Shadow Show, which included a handful of his originals as well as covers of songs bygd the Beatles and others. Nilsson's take on "You Can't Do That" became his first single, stalling outside the Top
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Obituary: Harry Nilsson
Harry Edward Nelson (Harry Nilsson), singer, songwriter: born New York City 15 June ; married Oona O'Keefe; died Los Angeles 15 January
HARRY NILSSON's position in popular music extended far beyond the chart placings of his many successful songs. For a core group of the elite and exceptional of the Sixties and Seventies, Nilsson was a teacher, almost a guru; they were enlightened by the approach of a pure artist of pop, a seminal
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'He was a great mind, and had a very illuminating brightness about him. He knew how to look, how to learn, and how to laugh, and how to put a wonderful tune together which you could whistle,' said Ray Cooper, the record producer and percussionist, a friend of Nilsson's for over 20 years.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison all benefited from his understanding of the subtleties of vocal phrasing. Nilsson, who was at first known only by his surname, was brought to their attention by Derek Taylor, the Beatl