Harry Nilsson

Биография:
Певец, композитор Гарри Нилссон (настоящее имя Гарри Эдвард Нелсон III) родился 14 июня 1941 года в США.

Гарри Нелсон еще в детстве вместе с семьей оказался в Калифорнии, где после окончания лос-анджелесской закрытой школы-пансиона для мальчиков поступил на работу клерком в Центральный банк Калифорнии. Одновременно Гарри брал уроки игры на гитаре и фортепиано. К середине 60-х, взяв сценический псевдоним Нилссон, молодой человек начал писать песни, которые пытался продать самым разным калифорнийским исполнителям, не отказываясь, тем не менее, от приносившей стабильный доход работы в банке. Три его мелодии приобрел ставший позже знаменитым продюсером, а в те годы также начинающий исполнитель Фил Спектор, две вещи вошли в репертуар The Ronettes, еще одну использовали в своих концертных программах The Modern Folk Quartet. Таким образом, Нилссон заработал необходимую сумму для записи собственного демо и «раскрутки» фонограммы на местном радио, что в 1967 году обернулось контрактом с фирмой RCA. Годом раньше исполнитель, практически за собственный счет, издал сольный альбом на независимой фирме Tower Records, однако пластинка «Spotlight On Nilsson» успеха не имела (сейчас это раритет, стоимость которого достигает 100 долларов). В самый разгар записи его дебютного альбома для RCA композиция Нилссона «Cuddly Toy» стала национальным хитом в исполнении The Monkees, а «One» принесла успех Three Dog Night, 1969 год. Несмотря на триумф «Cuddly Toy» и прекрасные рецензиии на дебютный альбом «The Pandemonium Shadow Show», пластинка расходилась крайне слабо - для начинающего исполнителя такая ситуация могла оказаться непреодолимой, если бы как-то вечером не раздался звонок из Лондона: «Привет, Гарри! Это Джон... Джон Леннон. Просто хотел тебе сказать, что твой альбом великолепен!». Спустя неделю Брайан Эпстайн предпринял окончившуюся неудачей попытку перекупить Гарри Нилссона из RCA для своей фирмы Apple Records, однако руководство RCA сделало из случившегося правильные выводы и пришло к мнению, что исполнителем такого масштаба следует дорожить.
Пластинка «Aerial Ballet» имела гораздо больший успех, главным образом за счет включенной в нее компо-зиции Фреда Нейла «Everybody's Talkin'», которая пробыла в американском Тор 10 большую часть 1969 года и вошла в фонограмму фильма «Midnight Cowboy» («Полуночный ковбой»). Для этой картины Нилссон написал еще одну песню, «I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City», и, хотя вещь для фильма не подошла, все в том же 1969 году она вошла в национальный хит-парад на 34-е место. Успешным оказался и новый студийный альбом Нилссона «Harry» - чуть раньше композитор написал главную тему и несколько песен для фильма Отто Преминджера «Skidoo», 1968 год, однако альбом с этими вещами вышел после «Harry». 1969 год закончился для Нилссона успешной премьерой его музыкальной темы «Girifriend» (впервые эта песня была выпущена совсем недавно на двойном CD «The Harry Nilsson Anthology») к телесериалу «The Courtship Of Eddie's Father». Позже Гарри Нилссон написал и исполнил песни к телевизионному мультфильму «The Point», одна из которых - «Me And My Arrow» - вновь заняла в хит-параде США 34-е место. Одной из особенностей Нилссона было практически полное отсутствие концертных выступл

Дискография:
1. Spotlight On Nilsson (Tower Records) - 1966
2. The Pandemonium Shadow Show (RCA Victor) - 1968
3. Aerial Ballet (RCA) - 1968
4. Harry (RCA) - 1969
5. Skidoo (RCA) - 1969 [soundtrack]
6. Nilsson Sings Newman (RCA) - 1970
7. The Point (RCA) - 1971 [sound- track]
8. Nilsson Schmilsson (RCA) - 1971
9. Scatalogue: The Point (RCA) - 1971 [US promo]
10. Son Of Schmilsson (RCA) - 1972
11. Early Years (One Up) - 1972
12. Aerial Pandemonium Ballet (RCA) - 1973
13. A Little Touch Of Schmilsson In The Night (RCA) - 1973
14. Son Of Dracula (Rapple/RCA) - 1974 [film soundtrack with Ringo Starr]
15. Pussy Cats (RCA) - 1974 [with John Lennon]
16. Duit On Mon Dei (RCA) - 1975
17. Sandman (RCA) - 1975
18. That's The Way It Is (RCA) - 1976
19. Knnillsonn (RCA) - 1977
20. Early Tymes (DIM) - 1977
21. The World's Greatest Lover (RCA) - 1978
22. Nilsson's Greatest Music (RCA) - 1978 [в 1981 году альбом был переиздан под названием «Greatest Hits»]
23. Harry And... (K-Tel) - 1979
24. Flash Harry (Mercury) - 1980
25. All For Your Love (Orchid) - 1982 [cassette only]
26. A Touch More Schmilsson In The Night (RCA) - 1986
27. Nilsson (RCA/Ariola/RPM Retro) - 1988 [UK issue]
28. Without Her, Without You: The Very Best Of Nilsson Vol. I (RCA) - 1990
29. Lullaby In Ragtime: The Very Best Of Nilsson Vol.2 (RCA) - 1992
30. All The Best (Music Club) - 1993
31. The Best Of Nilsson (RCA) - 1994
32. Personal Best: The Harry Nilsson Anthology (RCA) - 1994[2CD]
33. For The Love Of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson (Music Masters) - 1994 [tribute CD]

Singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson was born Harry Edward Nelson III in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1941. As a young man, he moved with his family to California, where he tried to break into the music business. He spent over five years making demos, singing commercial jingles, and hawking his songs, while holding down a day job at a Los Angeles area bank.

In the mid '60s he wrote a few songs with Phil Spector that were recorded by the Ronettes and the Modern Folk Quartet; occasionally he released records of his own. The Monkees recorded his tune, "Cuddly Toy," and the Yardbirds did "Ten Little Indians" on a single in their waning days.

By 1967, Harry landed a recording contract with RCA Records. His first album, called "The Pandemonium Shadow Show", featuring witty lyrics and a Beatles medley called "You Can't Do That," was a commercial flop, but received good critical notices. More importantly, it attracted the attention of the Beatles themselves. John Lennon and Paul McCartney cited Nilsson as one of their favourite artists while addressing the media at the launching of their Apple label. Lennon even phoned Nilsson to congratulate him on the album. Nilsson quit his job at the bank the very next day and turned his attention to music.

Three Dog Night boosted Harry's career even further when they took his song, "One" into the Top Ten in 1969, and Nilsson's second LP, "Aerial Ballet", began to get more attention. When one of its songs, "Everybody's Talkin'" was chosen as the theme for the film "Midnight Cowboy", Nilsson had his own Top Ten hit, one that would win a Grammy Award. The irony was that, although Nilsson was primarily identified as a singer/songwriter, the song was actually written by folk-rocker, Fred Neil.

Harry also provided the soundtrack for a film by Otto Preminger, called 'Skidoo', which turned out to be the very last outing for Groucho Marx. He also wrote scores for other films and composed the catchy theme to the TV show "The Courtship of Eddie's Father."

Nilsson was never one to be content to stay within definite categories, as demonstrated by two albums he released in 1970. The first was devoted entirely to covers of songs by Randy Newman (then just emerging as a performer); another was his soundtrack to an animated children's special, "The Point", which included the top forty hit "Me and My Arrow".

Oddly enough, it was a cover of yet another artist's song, (Badfinger) that gave Nilsson his biggest hit single. "Without You" appeared on the album, "Nilsson Schmilsson", which included a couple of other minor hits, "Coconut" and "Jump into the Fire". During the first half of the 1970s, he continued to broaden his range from the well-crafted, peppy, sensitive tunes that had dotted his early releases, cutting some tougher, more sour work.

He lost some of his edge, however, with 1973's "A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night", a collection of pop standards with an orchestra conducted by arranger Gordon Jenkins (most noted for his work with Frank Sinatra). His affection for the music wasn't entirely surprising, as there had always been a strong Tin Pan Alley flavour to much of his writing, but, with disco music on the horizon, it wasn't exactly in step with the times.

Much of Nilsson's notoriety came from a period in the mid-1970s when he was a drinking buddy of John Lennon in Los Angeles (where Lennon was living during a separation from Yoko Ono). The drunken pair were thrown out of L.A.'s Troubadour club in a well-publicized incident, after disrupting The Smother's Brothers act. Lennon offered to produce Nilsson's next album. The timing could not have been worse, as Nilsson lost his voice during the sessions, rupturing one of his vocal cords, keeping it a secret out of fear that Lennon would abandon the project. Released as "Pussycats", it was his last album to make the Top 100. During the same period, he also embarked on a project with another L.A. based ex-Beatle, Ringo Starr, acting and writing music for the little-seen film, "Son of Dracula". The movie was generally regarded as a failure despite a strong cast (starring Ringo) and great songs.

Harry's voice had been damaged by his hard living and he croaked his way through recording sessions with a bleeding throat. It was amazing he could do anything at all with what was left, let alone complete another album. This new chapter of the Nilsson story continued with two more LA session-men albums 'Duit on Mon Dei' (formerly God's Greatest Hits) and 'Sandman', by which time the voice was recovering much of its former power and warmth.

The session men were gone in time for Harry's last RCA album 'Knillssonn', a pop album with orchestral backing. This delightful collection of songs was simply not publicised by an indifferent RCA and so never hit its deserved heights. Harry left RCA somewhat disillusioned. He was only ever to make one more full studio LP - 1979s 'Flash Harry' which was never even released in America.

The rest of his life, Harry spent with his wife Una and their ever-growing army of children. Soundtracks for Disney's 'Popeye' movie and contributed songs to various other films and records were all the world was offered while Harry devoted a lot of his time and energy into promoting the 'Campaign To End Handgun Violence' after his friend John Lennon was shot in 1980.

In the early 90's, Harry's health deteriorated rapidly. First diagnosed a diabetic, he later had a major heart attack and he died peacefully in his sleep of heart failure in 1994, just after finishing the vocal tracks for a new album that would never be released.

In 1995, various artists, including Ringo Starr, Stevie Nicks, Victoria Williams and The B-52's Fred Schneider, paid tribute to Nilsson on the LP, "For the Love of Harry".

Harry Nilsson - All-Time Greatest Hits
by Harry Nilsson

Publisher: Rca
Released: 25 October, 1990
Media: Audio CD

Harry Nilsson - All-Time Greatest Hits
by Harry Nilsson


Publisher: Rca
Released: 25 October, 1990
Media: Audio CD

Nilsson Schmilsson
by Harry Nilsson


Publisher: Rca
Released: 25 October, 1990
Media: Audio CD

A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night
by Harry Nilsson


Publisher: Rca
Released: 25 October, 1990
Media: Audio CD

Personal Best: The Harry Nilsson Anthology
by Harry Nilsson


Publisher: Rca
Released: 28 February, 1995
Media: Audio CD

As Time Goes By
by Harry Nilsson


Publisher: Bmg Int'l
Released: 08 October, 1996
Media: Audio CD

Nilsson Sings Newman
by Harry Nilsson


Publisher: Buddha / Bmg
Released: 08 February, 2000
Media: Audio CD

Pandemonium Shadow Show/Aerial Ballet/Aerial Pandemonium Ballet
by Harry Nilsson

Publisher: Bmg Int'l
Released: 14 August, 2000
Media: Audio CD

Harry Nilsson - Greatest Hits
by Harry Nilsson


Publisher: Rca
Released: 19 March, 2002
Media: Audio CD

The Point! (Deluxe Packaging)
by Harry Nilsson


Publisher: Rca
Released: 19 November, 2002
Media: Audio CD

PUSSY CATS
Starring Harry Nilsson
First issued 30 August 1974 - RCA APL 1-0570
PRODUCED BY JOHN LENNON

A Side

MANY RIVERS TO CROSS (5:00)
By Jim Cliff
Instrumentation:
Harry Nilsson: Lead vocals
Ringo Starr: Drums
Jim Keltner: Drums
Ken Ascher: Piano
Willie Smith: Organ
Klaus Voormann: Bass
Danny Kootch: Guitar
Jesse Ed Davis: Guitar
Pete Drake: Steel guitar
John Lennon: Arrangement
Orchestration and Conducting by Ken Ascher featuring The Masked Alberts Orchestra

SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES (3:21)
By Bob Dylan
Instrumentation:
Harry Nilsson: Lead vocals, clavinet
Ringo Starr: Drums
Jim Keltner: Drums
Doug Hoefer: Snare drum
Ken Ascher: Electric piano
Bobby Keys: Sax
Trevor Lawrence: Sax
Danny Kootch: Guitar
Jesse Ed Davis: Guitar
Pete Drake: Steel guitar
John Lennon: Arrangement

DON'T FORGET ME (3:38)
By Harry Nilsson
Instrumentation:
Harry Nilsson: Lead vocals, piano
Harry Nilsson: Arrangement
Orchestration and Conducting by Ken Ascher featuring The Masked Alberts Orchestra

ALL MY LIFE (3:13)
By Harry Nilsson
Instrumentation:
Harry Nilsson: Lead vocals, clavinet
Ringo Starr: Drums
Jim Keltner: Drums
Ken Ascher: Electric piano
Bobby Keys: Sax
Danny Kootch: Guitar
Jesse Ed Davis: Guitar
Klaus Voormann: Bass
Pete Drake: Steel guitar
Keith Moon: Chinese wood blocks
John Lennon and Harry Nilsson: Arrangement
Orchestration and Conducting by Ken Ascher featuring The Masked Alberts Orchestra

OLD FORGOTTEN SOLDIER (4:14)
By Harry Nilsson
Instrumentation:
Harry Nilsson: Lead vocals, piano
Jesse Ed Davis: Guitar
Klaus Voormann: Bass
Harry Nilsson: Arrangement

B Side

SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME (4:30)
By Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman
Instrumentation:
Harry Nilsson: Lead vocals
Ringo Starr: Drums
Jim Keltner: Drums
Jane Getz: Piano
Gene Cipriano: Sax
Bobby Keys: Sax
Trevor Lawrence: Sax
Klaus Voormann: Bass
Danny Kootch: Guitar
Jesse Ed Davis: Guitar
Pete Drake: Steel guitar
John Lennon and Harry Nilsson: Arrangement
Orchestration and Conducting by Ken Ascher featuring The Masked Alberts Orchestra

MUCHO MUNGO/MT. ELGA (3:48)
By John Lennon and Harry Nilsson (adpt)
Instrumentation:
Harry Nilsson: Lead vocals
Keith Moon: Congas
Jim Keltner: Drums
Ringo Starr & Cynthia Weeb: Maracas
Ken Ascher: Piano
Bobby Keys: Sax
Trevor Lawrence: Sax
Klaus Voormann: Bass
Danny Kootch: Guitar
Jesse Ed Davis: Guitar
John Lennon and Harry Nilsson: Arrangement
Orchestration and Conducting by Ken Ascher featuring The Masked Alberts Orchestra

LOOP de LOOP (2:44)
By Ted Vann
Instrumentation:
Harry Nilsson: Lead vocals, electric piano
Ringo Starr: Drums
Jim Keltner: Drums
Keith Moon: Drums
Jane Getz: Piano
Gene Cipriano: Sax
Bobby Keys: Sax
Jim Horn: Sax
Chuck Findley: Trombone
Trevor Lawrence: Sax
Klaus Voormann: Bass
Danny Kootch: Guitar
Jesse Ed Davis: Guitar
Featuring The Masked Alberts Kids Chorale:
Troy Germano, Kristin Turner, Erik Mueller, Nathalie Altman, Peri Prestopino,
Cantey Turner, Phyllida Peterson, Rachel Mueller, Damon Vigiano, Susie Bell & David Steinberg
John Lennon and Harry Nilsson: Arrangement

BLACK SAILS (3:17)
By Harry Nilsson
Instrumentation:
Harry Nilsson: Lead vocals, piano
Harry Nilsson: Arrangement
Orchestration and Conducting by Ken Ascher featuring The Masked Alberts Orchestra

ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK (3:13)
By Jimmy DeKnight and Max Freedman
Instrumentation:
Harry Nilsson: Lead vocals, electric piano
Ringo Starr: Drums
Jim Keltner: Drums
Keith Moon: Drums
Jane Getz: Piano
Jim Horn: Sax
Bobby Keys: Sax
Trevor Lawrence: Sax
Chuck Findley: Trombone
Klaus Voormann: Bass
Danny Kootch: Guitar
Jesse Ed Davis: Guitar
John Lennon and Harry Nilsson: Arrangement

Обожаю Зарри Нильсона , последний, указанный Вами альбом, вообше супер.
Только не очень просто находить его альбомы. Вообше нигде нет.

Я, клнечно, хотел написать ХАРРИ

The real Mitya: Попробуйте пошарить на горбушке, его издавали наши доблестные флибустьеры. К 10 официальным трекам на нём есть ещё 4 бонуса.

У меня есть только Pussy Cats - шикарный альбом!

Господа, вы не знаете, что такое The Flying Sauser Song? Это поёт один Нильсон, или не один?

DAYBREAK
DOWN
First issued 7 June 1974 - RCA APBO 0246
PRODUCED BY HARRY NILSSON

back sleeve for Harry Nilsson's "Daybreak"

A Side

DAYBREAK (2'43")
By Harry Nilsson
Instrumentation
Harry Nilsson: Lead vocal and piano
Ringo Starr: Drums
George Harrison: Cowbell
Peter Framton: Guitar
Chris Spedding: Bouzouki
Jim Price: Organ
Klaus Voormann: bass
Bobby Keys: Hi Sax
Gene Cipriano: Horns
Ray Cooper: Percussion

B Side

DOWN (3'07")
By Harry Nilsson
Instrumentation