Without You , Harry Nilsson
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WITHOUT YOU ALBUM INFO
Artist: Harry Nilsson
Album: Without You
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"Without You" is a song originally recorded by Badfinger for their album ''No Dice'' (1970), and written by Peter Ham|Pete Ham and Tom Evans (music)|Tom Evans and produced by Geoff Emerick. Its verse was composed by Ham, originally titled "If It's Love", but had lacked a strong chorus. Evans had written a chorus without a strong verse, so the duo fused the two sections together. The protagonist of this ballad lets a lover know that they "can't live if living is without you". Badfinger's recording of the song, which is more brusque than its successors' versions, languished as an obscure album track until it was noticed a year later by Harry Nilsson.
Harry Nilsson version
Harry Nilsson, at the time best known for his hit "Everybody's Talkin'" and for composing such hits as Three Dog Night's "One (Harry Nilsson song)|One", heard Badfinger's recording of "Without You" at a party, and took it to be a The Beatles|Beatles song.<ref>[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:sny4rbs5mJMJ:www.ezrock1049.com/node/671312+Nilsson+%22without+you%22+album+party+edelson&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a ], Howie Edelson, "Flashback: Harry Nilsson's 'Without You' Tops the Chart"</ref> After realizing it was not, he decided to cover version|cover the song for his album ''Nilsson Schmilsso
Track list:
- Without You
- I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City
- Jump Into The Fire
- Me and My Arrow
- Rainmaker
- Without Her
- Coconut
- Spaceman
- Daybreak
- Little Cowboy
- It's Been So Long
- Mr. Bojangles
- As Time Goes By
- Everybody's Talkin'
- Nilsson Schmilsson
- The Best of Harry Nilsson
- Greatest Hits
- Personal Best: The Harry Nilsson Anthology
- The Point!
- A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night
- Son Of Schmilsson
- Pussy Cats
- Aerial Ballet
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