"Son Of" is Harry's "White Album", esp. with the jaw-dropping Hollywood Strings ending of "The Most Beautiful World in the World". <3 x 1000 Harry & Ringo's silly banter at the end.
First time I heard a Harry album, it really was like falling in love with someone. And pretty much every new album by him that I discover is the same way.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 20 January 2011 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
pussycats is very unfairly derided. but then I love walls and bridges and alcoholics too.
― akm, Thursday, 20 January 2011 05:44 (thirteen years ago) link
also, the strings sound just like number 9 dream.
― akm, Thursday, 20 January 2011 05:45 (thirteen years ago) link
just found out he recorded a bunch of yoko ono covers. kinda excited to listen
― jaxon, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 06:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Odds you will have that opportunity: not good.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
why not? they're available. i've got 'em anyway. i assume they're up on the for the love of harry blog. not life changing stuff, but pretty cool.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
ya, already downloaded. listened to 2 clips and was really feeling them. loose demo jammy quality. but fun skanky reggae
― jaxon, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, not sure of the story behind the yoko covers -- were they demos? or was that an album that was never released? it's a cool concept, for sure -- wish that it had been fleshed out a bit more.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
ah okFrom what we understand, Harry toyed with the idea of recording an album of Yoko Ono covers himself, before the idea would eventually morph into the various artists project, Every Man Has A Woman. The 1984 album included three Nilsson interpretations of Yoko's songs, "Silver Horse," "Dream Love" and "Loneliness." And, while the idea of a popster like Nilsson covering the sometimes difficult music of Yoko Ono was daring (to say the least), Harry's desire seemed to be a sincere notion, not necessarily designed to curry favor with Lennon - as might be suggested by some. In fact, many of Harry's demo arrangements seem like natural extensions of Yoko's (and/or John's) ideas. Perhaps Harry was attracted to Mrs. L's simplistic song craft (as it happens, a Nilsson trademark) or maybe he just enjoyed a challenge. Regardless, Nilsson did seem inspired by Ms. Ono's music. Four of the tracks posted here are Harry's raw, unreleased demos, including a just surfaced version of "Listen, The Snow Is Falling," that's far superior to any other available version. We've also included an edited, 4 minute rehearsal of Harry (and band) working on Yoko's "Yang Yang," at A&R Studios in NYC (listen to the entire 14 minute live session here). Harry's rare version of "Never Say Goodbye" is a fully formed studio recording that was officially issued in 1995 (the year after he died) on the 4-track promo CD, New York Rock - Never Say Goodbye. Which is, no doubt, a return tribute from Yoko. Harry's official contributions to Every Man Has A Woman are posted over here. Download all six of the project's "demos" HERE.
http://fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/2010/09/yoko-ono-demos-1984-updated.html
― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Consider me schooled.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Every Man Has A Woman is out of print, but you can find stray tracks on YouTube. Rosanne Cash recorded a shattering cover of "Nobody Sees Me Like You Do."
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
[also -- minimoog covers? intriguing ...]
Just realized I never did link these. I lovingly called them Switched On Schmilsson:
https://soundcloud.com/the-me/daddys-song
https://soundcloud.com/the-me/jump-into-the-fire
https://soundcloud.com/the-me/without-her
BTW, that "For the Love of Harry" site has the quad mix of Pussy Cats -- not something I normally care about that much, but it has a version of "Don't Forget Me" with a vocal that was recorded before he blew out his voice. It's awesome -- the other mixes are really great, too:
http://fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/2007/04/pussy-cats-1974.html
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 30 December 2012 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
I don't see the quad mix for anything but "Old Forgotten Soldier", and a dead link to a mediafire rip of the whole album. I'd love to hear that early mix of "Don't Forget Me", probably the last great Nilsson song.
― Lee626, Sunday, 30 December 2012 07:47 (eleven years ago) link
The Mediafire link isn't dead.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 30 December 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
In that I pulled it down last night.
I can access and download the familiar stereo mix, but the quad mix comes back with "permission denied". Maybe i'll have to try a different ISP or spoof accessing it from a different country?
― Lee626, Friday, 11 January 2013 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
Minimoog versions?
Bumping this for later...
― Mark G, Saturday, 30 May 2015 09:50 (nine years ago) link
They're cool! Bravo to Naive Teen Idol. Funny how this version somehow brings out "Jump Into the Fire's" basic "Land of 1,000 Dances" DNA, which Nilsson's version absorbs in shrieks and dementia.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 30 May 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
Haha love those switched on versions
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 30 May 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
Thanks, guys! After these, I started doing Switched On covers came of songs I played for my kids that they liked -- so I did a few Beach Boys and Tommy Roe songs before I moved on to sad robot covers using vocoder. But that's probably for another (shamelessly promotional) thread ...
At any rate, I realized I forgot to upload to Soundcloud some very important artwork that I commissioned for this Nilsson songs:
https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B05GDdyTvGVRClI;21DA3FDD-CD73-46E1-8262-9B14C6B60285
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 30 May 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
Fucking iCloud:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c3xri6x4hxudb6o/Switched%20On%20Schmilsson.001.jpg?dl=0
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 30 May 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
Fucking Dropbox:
http://i.imgur.com/Tw1LiB3.jpg
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 30 May 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
Yay!
― Mark G, Saturday, 30 May 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link
hahah, nice
poking around in your soundcloud, cool stuff overall for the record
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 31 May 2015 02:40 (nine years ago) link
Belated thanks, Doc C -- it's not quite a career but probably more than a hobby.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 03:08 (eight years ago) link
So, is the "For the love of Harry" totally gone now?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
its right here no? http://fortheloveofharrynilsson.tumblr.com/
son of schmilsson is way better than it's predecessor. this poll is junk!
― Cory Sklar, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
Well, as that page says, there was a blogspot..
But, that's nice too.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 22:31 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I like Son Of the best nowadays. Really feels like a second White Album, esp with Ringo saying goodbye at the end and all.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
What a buncha good albums.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 December 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
Re 1: True
― Mark G, Sunday, 9 December 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
Glad The Point managed to get in under the wire.
― What Do I Blecch? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 December 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link