When I was a little girl, we went to Disney World every year. Now as you can imagine, driving ten hours in a car with two young girls was extremely difficult. To make the time go by faster, my father (a huge fan of the audiobook) would play books on tape for us or classic radio programs. However, much to my father's dismay, my mother would always play one of her favorite albums during the trip. I can remember my mom, sister and me singing along to all the songs. Even to this day, The Point! is a road trip tradition.
Harry Nilsson is one of my top five dead collaborators (I have a dream list of collaborators both dead and alive). Whenever I listen to any of his music, I am never disappointed by the quality of his voice, with it's impressive five octave vocal rang or the genius of his songs. I think that he might be one of the most romantic songwriters I have ever heard. It is a tragedy that we lost him at all but all great things must come to an end. What suprises me is the amount of people who have no idea who he is but if you were to play them any number of his songs, they would know it or at least recognize it.
I have learned more from Harry Nilsson than almost any other artist I have ever listened to. I think that it is definately worth a listen. If you don't take my word for it, the trust The Beatles because at a press conference in 1968, someone asked John who his favorite American artist was, he stated, "Nilsson" and when Paul was asked his favorite American group, Paul replied, "Nilsson".
No comments:
Post a Comment