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Harry Nilsson (Music)

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Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994), sometimes credited as simply Nilsson, was an American singer/songwriter with a versatile voice that boasted multiple octaves in its prime. An idiosyncratic, savvy composer with a unique flair for Cloud Cuckooland-ishness, his career saw him going from clean-cut baroque pop prodigy to scruffy, carousing pop-rocker. Rather uniquely for the period, he was a Reclusive Artist who seldom, if ever, performed live, his career sustained by little else than his recorded output.In the first part of The '60s Nilsson pursued a music career while he also held a steady job as a computer programmer at a California bank. After years of writing songs and recording demos, he was signed to RCA Records in 1967. His work earned the admiration of The Beatles (Ringo Starr eventually became a close friend), which needless to say did wonders for his own notability. His big commercial break came when his cover of "Everybody's Talkin'" (originally written by Fred Neil) was featured in the film Midnight Cowboy, earning him a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in the process. He would win the same award again a few years later for his performance of what has now become a pop standard; "Without You" (written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger).His fame peaked in the early 1970s; as time went on, Nilsson's continuing drug and alcohol abuse took a toll on both his voice and career; his career as a recording artist ended with the release of his last album in 1980. His untimely death of heart failure in 1994 occurred just as he was aiming for a musical comeback.
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Self-Plagiarism
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Self-Plagiarism: His version of "I Don't Need You" (not the original, but released before the Kenny Rogers version) has an arrangement that blatantly copies "Without You", though it's just taking its cues from the original version by Rick Christian, which is even more of a "Without You" soundalike. His beloved theme song for the TV series The Courtship of Eddie's Father, "Best Friend". He rewrote the lyrics of an album outtake song called "Girlfriend", took the backing track of the rhythmically similar "Daddy's Song", and combined them into a "new" piece.
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New Sound Album
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New Sound Album: Nilsson Schmilsson added extensive rock elements to his music for the first time, culminating with the Epic Rocking of "Jump into the Fire". A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night. Standards and traditional pop.
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Ironic Name
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Ironic Name: "Joy, to the world, was a beautiful girl, but to me Joy meant only sorrow."
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Generation Xerox
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Generation Xerox: "1941".
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Age-Progression Song
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Age-Progression Song: "1941".
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Disappeared Dad
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Disappeared Dad: Messed him up, but good. He attributes his own self-admitted flaws as a father to this. This also becomes the subject of at least two of his songs.
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Just Like Robin Hood
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Just Like Robin Hood: "Moonshine Bandit" "Pretty Soon There'll Be Nothing Left for Everybody" from Sandman.
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Vocal Evolution
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Vocal Evolution: Unfortunately, not the positive kind, as years of hard living made his voice deeper and hoarser over the course of his career.
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Statuesque Stunner
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Statuesque Stunner: "Jesus Christ You're Tall", in which the singer is smitten by a really tall woman, proposes that they marry and have tall children, who'll then have tall children of their own...and they'll all play basketball.
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Please, Don't Leave Me
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Please, Don't Leave Me: "Don't Leave Me".
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Posthumous Collaboration
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Posthumous Collaboration: Made a guest vocal appearance on the title track of the 2016 reunion album Good Times! by The Monkees, which he wrote. The music had been recorded in 1968 with Nilsson singing a guide vocal, and for the album they had Micky Dolenz record a new vocal track that got combined with Harry's voice.
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Uncommon Time
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Uncommon Time: "There Will Never Be" on Pandemonium Shadow Show starts off in 5/4 and toggles between that and 3/4 for the rest of the song.
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Pun-Based Title
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Pun-Based Title: Duit on Mon Dei Explanation "Do it on Monday" is a riff on the motto of the British Monarchy, "Dieu et mon droit". Apparently this began as an inside joke among The Beatles during the Apple Corps era, then Ringo put it on the cover of his Ringo album.
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Non-Actor Vehicle
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Non-Actor Vehicle: Son of Dracula, which was later re-released as Young Dracula in an obvious attempt to piggyback on Young Frankenstein's success. Nilsson was the second choice after David Bowie turned it down. Most fans think he acquits himself fairly well as an actor and is the only worthwhile thing in the whole movie.
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Credits Gag
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Credits Gag: The 1968 film Skidoo has Nilsson singing the entire end credits sequence: actors, crew members, and legal disclaimers. All of it.
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Their First Time
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Their First Time: His early song "This Could Be The Night", recorded by The Modern Folk Quartet in 1966 (but never formally recorded by Nilsson, save for a demo he did for The Monkees, at the behest of their producer Chip Douglas, who'd been a member of The Modern Folk Quartet), is unabashedly sung from the point of view of a teen boy who's certain that his girlfriend is going to finally have sex with him.
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God-Is-Love Songs
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God-Is-Love Songs: "Good Old Desk" (see Fun with Acronyms above), though it's pretty much admitted to be a joke. Not that it doesn't make a little bit of sense.
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Early-Installment Weirdness
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Nilsson's first releases, under the name "Bo-Pete", were rockabilly songs.
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Album Intro Track
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Album Intro Track: Pandemonium Shadow Show opens with Nilsson attempting a circus ringmaster-type introduction. Aerial Ballet has him doing a tap-dancing routine. Duit on Mon Dei starts off with a rough demo version of "Jesus Christ You're Tall", which he recorded a finished version of on the next album, Sandman. Flash Harry opens with "Harry", an Image Song about Nilsson, written and performed by Eric Idle.
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Bookends
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Book Ends: A Little Touch of Schmilsson in The Night opens with a snippet of "As Time Goes By" and closes with the whole song. ...That's The Way It Is goes the opposite direction, opening with the full version of "That Is All" and closing with a short reprise.
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Green Aesop
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Green Aesop: "Cowboy", "Pretty Soon There'll Be Nothing Left for Everybody"
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Let's Duet
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The bouncy and wholesome-sounding "Cuddly Toy" was an obvious choice for Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz to sing as a duet when The Monkees covered it on Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.. As for the lyrics, they're vague enough to be interpreted in different ways (some quite sinister), but they're plainly about some sort of unwholesome sexual encounter.
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Grow Old with Me
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Grow Old with Me: "Down by the Sea" tackles this trope with a bit of irreverence:
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Jukebox Musical
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Jukebox Musical: The 1977 London stage production of The Point! (starring Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz) was a quasi-example. It was an Adaptation Expansion, with various songs from other Nilsson albums added, rewritten to fit the plot.
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Football Fight Song
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Football Fight Song: It's Major League Baseball instead of football, but "Yo Dodger Blue" ("L.A. loves you!") on Losst and Found is otherwise a perfect example
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Christmas Songs
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Christmas Songs: "Remember (Christmas)" is a perennial selection on Christmas compilations... despite having no Christmas connotations whatsoever in its lyrics (the instrumental bridge features some Snowy Sleigh Bells, however). He wrote and recorded an original Christmas song called "Give, Love, Joy" for the Ziggy's Gift TV special in 1982. Six years later he contributed a few brief cover versions of holiday standards to an audiobook anthology of various stories called The Presence of Christmas. It's ultra-rare and those who've heard it don't have much good to say about it. One Amazon.com review calls it "so bad it's almost embarrassing".
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Only One Name
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Only One Name: On many of his albums, he was credited as "Nilsson". (Which would make Harry a Pun-Based Title.)
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Self-Demonstrating Song
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Self-Demonstrating Song: "How To Write a Song" from Sandman. Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Aerial Ballet was named after the high-wire circus act of his Swedish grandparents.
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Epic Instrumental Opener
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Epic Instrumental Opener: The intro for "Salmon Falls" clocks in at a full 1:40 (the entire song is a little over four minutes). Even more unusually, the main instrument in that intro is a steel drum.
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Anti-Love Song
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Anti-Love Song: "You're Breaking My Heart"
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Remix Album
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Remix Album: Aerial Pandemonium Ballet from 1971 is one of the earliest examples. After the success of his album The Point, the record label considered rereleasing Nilsson's out-of-print early albums Pandemonium Shadow Show and Aerial Ballet. Nilsson felt those albums sounded outdated, so he remixed them and combined them into a single album. "It is a matter of intense debate among Nilsson fans whether this was a good idea."
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Epic Rocking
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Nilsson Schmilsson added extensive rock elements to his music for the first time, culminating with the Epic Rocking of "Jump into the Fire".
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Song of Song Titles
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Song of Song Titles: Nilsson's cover of "You Can't Do That" features backing vocals singing the titles of various Beatles songs during the verses.
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White-Dwarf Starlet
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White-Dwarf Starlet: The subject of "Mr. Richland's Favorite Song", a one-time Teen Idol who's reduced to playing to audiences of his core admirers so small he knows them each by name.
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: "Mr. Richland's Favorite Song" was exactly that; the favorite Nilsson song of one Mr. Richland, a music publisher. Nilsson Sings Newman
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Denser and Wackier
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Denser and Wackier: His evolution from the clean-cut, angelic-voiced orchestral pop prodigy of the late 60s to the bearded, throaty, often profane barfly of the 70s.
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Studio Chatter
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Studio Chatter: Featured on a few albums.
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Tenor Boy
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Tenor Boy: His persona on his early albums.
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Softer and Slower Cover
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Softer and Slower Cover: His version of Louis Jordan's "Early In The Morning", taking an uptempo 1940s "jump blues" song and turning it into an anguished, stark ballad, with just Nilsson's vocal and an organ (played by him).
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Pop-Star Composer
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Pop-Star Composer: Of The Point and Popeye.
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The Something Song
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The Something Song: A few more than a few; "Daddy's Song", "The Lottery Song", "The Puppy Song" being a mere three examples.
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1.0
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_9603fba3
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_979ca348
type
Repurposed Pop Song
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_979ca348
comment
Repurposed Pop Song: "Coconut" was nothing less than a shoe-in for ads for Coke Lime.
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1.0
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1.0
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_979ca348
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_9b6acdb3
type
Lyrical Cold Open
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_9b6acdb3
comment
Lyrical Cold Open: Most of the songs on The Point!, "Remember (Christmas)", "(Thursday) Here's Why I Did Not Go to Work Today".
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1.0
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1.0
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_9b6acdb3
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_9c6ba43a
type
Values Dissonance
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_9c6ba43a
comment
Values Dissonance: Invoked for parody with several songs on Harry... a kind of super-sanitized chipper '50s worldview in the face of war, social changes, and more.
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1.0
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1.0
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_9c6ba43a
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_a040ed2e
type
Silly Love Songs
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_a040ed2e
comment
Silly Love Songs: Though not as abundant as you'd believe.
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1.0
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1.0
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_a040ed2e
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_a6cda066
type
Rule of Three
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_a6cda066
comment
Rule of Three: His studio albums divide neatly into informal trilogies: Pandemonium Shadow Show/Aerial Ballet/Harry (early virtuoso pop); Nilsson Sings Newman/The Point!/Aerial Pandemonium Ballet (concept albums); The Schmilsson albums; Pussy Cats/Duit on Mon Dei/Sandman (the Hollywood party animal period); ...That's the Way It Is/Knnillssonn/Flash Harry (late career Revisiting the Roots).
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1.0
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1.0
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_a6cda066
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_a6ed3cd6
type
Scatting
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comment
Scatting: An indelible part of his vocal style.
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_a6ed3cd6
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_ab2f3f27
type
Heavy Meta
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_ab2f3f27
comment
Heavy Meta: "The Story of Rock and Roll", which he wrote but never formally recorded. It was a minor hit for The Turtles in 1968 (The Monkees also made an unfinished attempt at it).
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_ab2f3f27
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_ace24b2c
type
Halfway Plot Switch
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_ace24b2c
comment
Halfway Plot Switch: Almost exactly halfway through, Son of Schmilsson's closing number "The Most Beautiful World in the World" changes from rock to a lush ballad, while the lyrics shift from talking about how the world sometimes sucks to how great it is.
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type
Break-Up Song
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_b28a8d0a
comment
Break-Up Song: Oh, so many... "Without You" being the most obvious example. It was a cover of a song by Badfinger, but their version doesn't have a fraction of Nilsson's emotional oomph. There's also "Don't Forget Me", a tender post-divorce song from Pussy Cats.
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1.0
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1.0
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_b28a8d0a
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_b58c6c9d
type
Cover Album
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comment
Cover Album: Nilsson Sings Newman, A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night....That's The Way It Is (all but two songs are covers), Pussy Cats (five of ten) and Pandemonium Shadow Show (six of twelve) come close. And on the receiving end too, with the tribute album For The Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson, and The Walkmen did a track-for-track version of Pussy Cats.
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1.0
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1.0
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_b58c6c9d
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_b6a13a56
type
Ten Little Murder Victims
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_b6a13a56
comment
Ten Little Murder Victims: "Who Done It?" is a quirky take on this. Also "Ten Little Indians", where each Indian dies after violating one of the Ten Commandments.
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1.0
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_b6a13a56
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_bc00493f
type
Precision F-Strike
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_bc00493f
comment
Precision F-Strike: "You're breakin' my heart... you're tearin' it apart... so FUCK YOU!" Possibly the most commercial song on the album, and the least likely to see airplay! There's some swearing in "The Flying Saucer Song", which gets Lampshaded.
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_bc00493f
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_beb932ca
type
Big Applesauce
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comment
Big Applesauce: "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City".
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1.0
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1.0
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_beb932ca
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_c22e0b2
type
Revenge of the Sequel
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_c22e0b2
comment
Revenge of the Sequel: Son of Schmilsson.
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 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_c25c7890
type
Fun with Acronyms
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comment
Fun with Acronyms: "Good Old Desk".
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 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_c6b75b76
type
A cappella
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_c6b75b76
comment
A Cappella: "The Ivy Covered Walls"
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type
Self-Titled Album
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_ca834552
comment
Self-Titled Album: Harry.
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_ca834552
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_ce0c96f8
type
Train Song
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_ce0c96f8
comment
Train Song: "Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore"
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_ce0c96f8
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_cff53786
type
Cover Version
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_cff53786
comment
Cover Version: His two biggest hits were covers. And pretty obviously, Nilsson Sings Newman is nothing but covers of Randy Newman songs. The Beatles uniformly agreed that his cover of "Mother Nature's Son" is their favourite Beatles cover song. Out of 18 albums, only 4 (Skidoo, The Point!, Duit on Mon Dei, Knnillssonn) contain all original songs, and Knnillssonn is the only one with all the songs solely written by Nilsson. Then there's the odd case of "Marry Me a Little". After it was cut from the original run of Company, Stephen Sondheim arranged for Nilsson to record it so he could give a copy to Judy Prince, the wife of producer Harold Prince, who'd loved the song, as a Christmas present (Nilsson even sings "Merry Christmas, Judy. Have a Happy New Year too" at the end). Despite the obviously limited quantity of the recording, a dub of the acetate eventually circulated among Nilsson fans, and a version taken from the master tapes finally got an official release in the RCA Albums Collection Boxed Set in 2013. The consensus opinion is that it's just as good as what Nilsson was releasing publicly at the time, and if he'd given it a wide release it might've been a career highlight for both him and Sondheim.
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1.0
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 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_d0f0a80d
type
One-Word Title
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_d0f0a80d
comment
One-Word Title: "One".
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_d0f0a80d
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_d332bf54
type
Lampshaded
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_d332bf54
comment
There's some swearing in "The Flying Saucer Song", which gets Lampshaded.
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_d332bf54
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_d46ddfa2
type
CloudCuckooLander
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_d46ddfa2
comment
Cloud Cuckoolander: Part of his brand of humor. "Coconut" is pretty much one of the all-time party tunes of Cloud Cuckooland.
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_d46ddfa2
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_d51263b9
type
Fake Shemp
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_d51263b9
comment
Fake Shemp: The cover photo of RCA's 1978 Greatest Hits album appears to show Nilsson looking at himself in a handheld mirror, but the back of the head that we see is actually a delivery man who showed up at RCA one day while they were working on the cover. They didn't have Nilsson pose for it because they didn't want him to know they were releasing the album (and he left the label after he found out).
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_d51263b9
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_db83a701
type
Falling Bass
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_db83a701
comment
Falling Bass: The detuning bass solo in the breakdown section of "Jump Into the Fire".
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 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_dbfd6b8
type
Lyrical Dissonance
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_dbfd6b8
comment
Lyrical Dissonance: "Marchin' Down Broadway" is a super-cheery number about... celebrating America's victory over Japan in World War II. The bouncy and wholesome-sounding "Cuddly Toy" was an obvious choice for Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz to sing as a duet when The Monkees covered it on Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.. As for the lyrics, they're vague enough to be interpreted in different ways (some quite sinister), but they're plainly about some sort of unwholesome sexual encounter.
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_dbfd6b8
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_e18675e6
type
Word Salad Lyrics
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_e18675e6
comment
Word Salad Lyrics: Once in a while, with "Puget Sound" as a standout.
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1.0
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_e18675e6
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_e6dea5bf
type
Self-Backing Vocalist
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_e6dea5bf
comment
Self-Backing Vocalist: One of the masters, due to his (then) uncanny vocal range. When he was first starting out, record executives were more interested in signing his "backup singers."
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 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_f001ca07
type
"Days of the Week" Song
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_f001ca07
comment
"Days of the Week" Song: "(Thursday) Here's Why I Did Not Go to Work Today"
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_f001ca07
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_f1dcc3f
type
Soprano and Gravel
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_f1dcc3f
comment
Soprano and Gravel: Invoked in "Coconut".
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 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_f3cf057b
type
Fading into the Next Song
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_f3cf057b
comment
Fading into the Next Song: Aerial Ballet: "I Said Goodbye to Me" into the reprise of "Little Cowboy". Duit on Mon Dei: "Kojak Columbo" into "Easier For Me".
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_f3cf057b
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1.0
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Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_f3cf057b
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_faece9aa
type
The Power of Friendship
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_faece9aa
comment
The Power of Friendship: "Me and My Arrow".
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 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_fd94c4ac
type
Theme Naming
 Harry Nilsson (Music) / int_fd94c4ac
comment
Theme Naming: Notice all the albums with variations of "Nilsson" up there?
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ItemName
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"Days of the Week" Song / int_3179270b
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Last-Name Basis / int_3179270b
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Only One Name / int_3179270b
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Refrain from Assuming / int_3179270b
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Remix Album / int_3179270b
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Repurposed Pop Song / int_3179270b
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Revenge of the Sequel / int_3179270b
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Sampled Up / int_3179270b
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Serendipitous Symphony / int_3179270b
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Song of Song Titles / int_3179270b
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Stylistic Suck / int_3179270b
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Ten Little Murder Victims / int_3179270b
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The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes / int_3179270b
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The Not-Remix / int_3179270b
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The Something Song / int_3179270b
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Title by Number / int_3179270b
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Word, Schmord! / int_3179270b