Who's Harry Nilsson?

[Nostalgiabuff]

Anyone check out this documentary yet? I watched it last night. Really enjoyed it. It's a sad and often amusing doc about his life and music. Brilliant song writer with an amazing voice and he wasted it all on drugs and booze. he was very close friends with John Lennon and Ringo Starr

here is a link to his most famous song if you don't know who he is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AzEY6ZqkuE

he also did the lime in the coconut song

[Mikey]

I like his song Spaceman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j8LD...eature=related

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[Nostalgiabuff]

this is another classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02lXL...eature=related

the guy really was underrated and gets overlooked because he was so shy, did not tour, and rarely did TV appearances

[SeattleEd]

Ha!!! We watched it last night too. Brilliant and sad.
Loved it!!y Huge fan of his and our girls love his cartoon movie The Point.
Beautiful voice. Make sure to check the bonus features. So much more.
People don't know the name but know the songs once they hear it.

[GlobalObserver]

Watched it a few days ago. I really enjoyed it.

It's streaming at Netflix.

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[Nostalgiabuff]

yeah, Netflix is where I watched it. had to go order the Best of Collection for Nilsson after watching it.

[jwyblejr]

I'll have to see if it'll show up on the Documentary Channel.

[Brazoo]

Can't wait to see it - Nilsson is one of my favourites!

[sauce]

Nilsson is GENIUS! ---> The Point

[SeattleEd]

yeah, Netflix is where I watched it. had to go order the Best of Collection for Nilsson after watching it.

Again, same train of thought.

We didn't have much on our iPod so I went looking for a definitive collection and found out that Harry was trying to have RCA release a complete boxset before his passing with no luck.

I want a boxset that has EVERYTHING and demos and alternate takes. No luck and would love to have it all remastered like the Beatles catalog. More stuff from the ***** Cats sessions with Lennon.

[Nostalgiabuff]

Nilsson probably does not have enough following at this point to warrant investing the money to remaster everything. would be cool though.

[SeattleEd]

Its\ doesn't take much to invest in remastering. I believe the issue arises with RCA and the Nilsson estate working together to figure out the rights.
These days it doesn't take much to master and based on Nilsson's popularity the label and estate certainly will make their profit.
According to the movie, there are demos and unreleased tracks that could see the light of day.