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BMG
January 13, 2004 Nilsson Schmilsson was reissued by BMG on January 13, 2004. Harry Nilsson's best-selling album was remastered and included extensive liner notes and a number of bonus tracks. The CD is avalable from Amazon.com at:
http://www.harrynilsson.com/amazonB000159ELA.html
The bonus tracks are:
"Si No Estas Tu"
Nilsson's version of "Without You" in Spanish.
"How Can I Be Sure of You"
This original Nilsson song has never been released before. Harfry never finished "How Can I Be Sure of You", but reused some of the song's lyrics for "Good For God".
"The Moonbeam Song"
An early, alternative version of the song, with Harry on piano. Curtis describes this as "a lovely band arrangement, with some surprisingly agile piano work from Harry."
"Lamaze"
"Lamaze" is another unreleased Nilsson original. Apparently done as a joke during the sessions for The Story of Eric, this "theme" has a dissonant piano counterpoint and very funny fake French lyrics. Brief but memorable.
"Old Forgotten Soldier"
This version of Harry's song uses the same basic tracks as the recent Camden release, but incorporates highly complex multi-tracked backing vocals that no one knew were there before.
"Gotta Get Up"
This is Harry's original version of the song with a George Tipton arrangement.
In addition to the above songs, the CD contains three unlisted radio spots, two of which
feature brief comments from Richard Perry about the album and Harry.
For the liner notes, Curtis Armstrong conducted lengthy interviews with Richard Perry, Paul Buckmaster, George Tipton, Chris Spedding, Herbie Flowers, Dean Torrence, and Gary Wright. Downloads:
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BMG
July 2002 Nilsson Schmilsson is Harry's best-selling album. It spent nearly one year on the charts, reaching #3, and going gold.
A poster was included with the album.
"That album was a great meeting [of minds] ... I was so glad to meet Richard Perry, because he was thinking the same thing I was thinking at the same time: now let's go to work and do some rock 'n' roll and get down!" -- Harry Nilsson Downloads:
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Simply Vinyl
SVLP370
April 22, 2002 Simply Vinyl released the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack on LP in 1999 and Nilsson Schmilsson on LP in 2002.
The following is the description of Nilsson Schmilsson from Simply Vinyl's web site:
Well, here's a classic [...] from an artist who is only just beginning to be recognised for the major influence that he has had on many artists and musicians. So welcome to the late great Harry Nilsson and Nilsson Schmilsson (No.3 U.S., No.4 U.K. '72). This album was a sea change for Nilsson, who had previously been perceived as a sweet-faced choirboy with a subversive streak and had always produced himself. For Nilsson Schmilsson, Harry employed the services of wunderkind producer Richard Perry, whom he met via Phil Spector. The result was a phenomenon! Aided and abetted by Harry's landmark cover of Badfinger's Tom Evans's and Pete Ham's beautiful "Without You" (No.1 U.S., No.1 U.K.), the album quickly raced up the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Recent film fans will have also noticed "Coconut" (No.8 U.S., No.42 U.K.) being used in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs conveniently also available on 180g vinyl (SVLP28). Another highlight from this masterpiece album is the opening track (and b side of "Without You") "Gotta Get Up", along with the punchy "Jump Into the Fire" (No. 27 U.S. '72). All in all, we're talking one of the great pop classics here which is finally available on glorious 180 gram beautiful analogue vinyl. Downloads:
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BMG Camden
R33142
August 14, 2000 Nilsson Schmilsson is Harry Nilsson's best-selling album. It spent nearly one year on the charts, reaching #3, and going gold.
"That album was a great meeting [of minds] ... I was so glad to meet Richard Perry, because he was thinking the same thing I was thinking at the same time: now let's go to work and do some rock 'n' roll and get down!" -- Harry Nilsson Downloads:
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RCA
07863-66599-2
1995 "24 Karat Gold Disc."
Nilsson Schmilsson is Harry's best-selling album. It spent nearly one year on the charts, reaching #3, and going gold.
A poster was included with the album.
"That album was a great meeting [of minds] ... I was so glad to meet Richard Perry, because he was thinking the same thing I was thinking at the same time: now let's go to work and do some rock 'n' roll and get down!" -- Harry Downloads:
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Mobile Fidelity
UCDC 541
1991 Gold CD.
Nilsson Schmilsson is Harry's best-selling album. It spent nearly one year on the charts, reaching #3, and going gold.
A poster was included with the album.
"That album was a great meeting [of minds] ... I was so glad to meet Richard Perry, because he was thinking the same thing I was thinking at the same time: now let's go to work and do some rock 'n' roll and get down!" -- Harry Downloads:
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RCA
PCD1-4515
1986 Nilsson Schmilsson is Harry's best-selling album. It spent nearly one year on the charts, reaching #3, and going gold.
A poster was included with the album.
"That album was a great meeting [of minds] ... I was so glad to meet Richard Perry, because he was thinking the same thing I was thinking at the same time: now let's go to work and do some rock 'n' roll and get down!" -- Harry Nilsson Downloads:
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| |  Timothy Craig |   (3.0 / 4.0) | 10 Great songs, no liner notes, no bonus tracks, no poster, no lyrics. If you have the original LP, burn it onto a CD and save your money. | | Lyman Green | (4.0 / 4.0) | I will profess to not being an expert on things Harry Nilsson, but I was raised from a very young age with this music which my mother and father played repeatedly for me. Of course, they were playing the LP, but as far as I know this CD is no different and I was very happy sometime in the late 80's or early 90's to pick it up. I personally believe this is one of the best albums of the seventies. Every song on this album is strong, and "Jump into the Fire" made me want to be a drummer for many years. I never followed up on that ambition, but it was not for lack of hearing what I still felt was a very cool drum bit (almost a solo). If you have to pick one Harry Nilsson album, I'd recommend this one (even over the Point, which I like very much). |
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RCA / Seoul Records
SRPR-040
1982 Downloads:
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Quad Reel-to-Reel
RCA
EPQ1-0319-QF
1973 Harry Nilsson's best-selling album was released in three four-track (quadrophonic) versions - LP, eight-track, and reel-to-reel.Downloads:
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RCA
PQ8-1734
1973 Harry Nilsson's Nilsson Schmilsson was released as a quadrophonic eight-track tape. The songs were remixed to take advantage of the four-channel play back.Downloads:
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RCA
APD1-0319
1973 Quadrophonic release.
Nilsson Schmilsson is Harry's best-selling album. It spent nearly one year on the charts, reaching #3, and going gold.
A poster was included with the album.
"That album was a great meeting [of minds] ... I was so glad to meet Richard Perry, because he was thinking the same thing I was thinking at the same time: now let's go to work and do some rock 'n' roll and get down!" -- Harry Downloads:
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RCA
1971 Nilsson Schmilsson is Harry Nilsson's best-selling album. It spent nearly one year on the charts, reaching #3, and going gold.
A poster was included with the album.
"That album was a great meeting [of minds] ... I was so glad to meet Richard Perry, because he was thinking the same thing I was thinking at the same time: now let's go to work and do some rock 'n' roll and get down!" -- Harry
The album's name comes from a discussion Harry had with some of the musicians about possible titles. One of them said it didn't matter much what you called it ... "Nilsson ... Schmilsson."
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| | | Timothy Craig | (4.0 / 4.0) | Nice package! 10 great songs and a poster! | | Gregory Powell | (4.0 / 4.0) | The very best Harry album. Energetic and heartbreaking at the same time. I wore out the first LSP 4515, saw what was happening and bought two more. Still got one in original wrapping. | | Tony Muscarella | (4.0 / 4.0) | One of the greatest pop/rock albums ever recorded, by one of the greatest voices of our generation. Every track's a gem. | | David Allen Jones | (4.0 / 4.0) | Most people agree that this was the apex of Harry's career, and it is a consistently great pop LP. Producer Richard Perry brought out Harry's nutty creativity and good humor better than anyone had ever done before.
While it will always be an oddity that a songwriter as good as Harry Nilsson had his biggest hits with other people's songs, it also proves what an excellent interpreter he could be; as Mariah Carey proved despite a similar arrangement, nobody could work the magic that Harry did on "Without You". The invaluable assistance of Paul Buckmaster, surely one of the best string arrangers in pop music history, helped a lot. Such was the fertile creativity here that Harry and Richard could take three songs with no connecting thread whatsoever and make them sound like a trilogy merely by sequencing, like on the great "Gotta Get Up", "Driving Along", and "Early In The Morning", the latter capturing perfectly that bleary-eyed 6 AM after having been up all night feeling. "Coconut" is another goofy song with that infectuous three note hook, and "Down" works up a great horn-driven head of steam. I also love "The Moonbeam Song", with its nice Mellotron accompaniment...and of course, no discussion of this LP is complete without mentioning "Jump Into the Fire", one of the few times Harry Nilsson actually rocked out, and rocked out well. I've always thought it worked better in the single version, which is not as drawn-out and lacks the drum solo.
Nilsson Schmilsson was a landmark album that pretty much established Harry's image for the rest of his career. Sadly, he didn't wear his pop star clothes all that comfortably, but that doesn't take away from this otherwise excellent LP. | | Michael E. McGlothin | (4.0 / 4.0) | This album is one of the greatest of the century!! If you are reading this now and you pass this album up, YOU ARE INSANE!! This really IS a GREAT album. I've been listening to it since it came out. 3 albums, 2 cassettes and 1 cd later, I STILL love it as much as I did then. I always will. Every song has its own sense of being masterful. Many styles of rock 'n' roll. JUST DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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