![]() We and the Consignor make no representations and warranties, express or implied, as to whether the purchaser acquires any copyrights, including but not limited to, any reproduction rights of any property. No oral or written statements made in the catalogue, online listing, advertisement, bill of sale, and announcement or elsewhere made by employees (including affiliated and related companies) shall be considered a warranty. ![]() We make no warranties, nor does the consignor, as to the merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, the correctness of the catalogue or other description of the physical condition, size, quality, rarity, importance, medium, provenance, exhibitions, literature or historical relevance of any property. Except for the Limited Warranty contained in the terms of guarantee all property is sold “As Is”. The album, which was produced by Mark Hudson, features contributions from Jimmy Webb, Van Dyke Parks, Jim Keltner, and Harry’s son, Kiefo Nilsson.Julien's Auctions guarantees the authenticity of attribution of property listed in the catalogue or online as stated in the Terms of Guarantee. Released in November 2019 was Losst And Founnd - an album featuring some of Harry Nilsson's unfinished final songs. That same year, Mariah Carey's version of “Without You” peaked at Number Three. Harry Nilsson died of a massive heart attack on January 15th, 1994. ![]() In 1983, his bandmate Tommy Evans also hung himself. In 1969 Three Dog Night scored a Top Five hit with a cover of Nilsson's “One.”įollowing years of business problems, Badfinger's Pete Ham hung himself in 1975. It's ironic that Nilsson, who was known primarily as a songwriter, scored his biggest hits with songs written by other people. “Without You” was produced by Richard Perry, who would go on to produce numerous hits for Ringo Starr, Art Garfunkel, Carly Simon, and the Pointer Sisters. By that time I think the voice was really not in a good place.” A bootleg recording that we have that we opted not to use it. Pete wasn't writing any hits, I think it kind of depressed him a bit.”ĭirector John Scheinfeld, who directed the definitive documentary Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?, told us that although Nilsson was notorious for never performing in public, a 1992 recording does exist of Nilsson performing “Without You” with Ringo Starr's All Starr Band: “There was a recording made. Pete kind of dried up after the Straight Up album. We'd go into the studio, and the Beatles were nice enough to give us that leeway, and we would go through songs - 'What have you got?' Pete would have a bunch, sometimes he wouldn't have hardly any. What it was in Badfinger was everybody wrote songs. Surviving Badfinger member Joey Molland played lead guitar on the group's version and says that the band was first and foremost a song-based outfit: “That's an interpretive thing. The song had actually been recorded by the Beatles' proteges Badfinger, and written by the band's Pete Ham and Tommy Evans, who created the song by taking the verses from an unfinished Ham song, and stringing it together with a stray chorus that Evans couldn't fit into any of his songs. Nilsson heard “Without You” at a party and was convinced it was a Beatles track he had never heard. ![]() It was featured on his critically acclaimed 1971 album Nilsson Schmilsson. The song was Nilsson's second major hit, following 1969's “Everybody's Talkin',” and went on to win the 1972 Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. It was 51 years ago Sunday (February 19th, 1972) that Harry Nilsson 's “Without You” began its four-week run at the top of the charts. ![]()
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