…good Facebook pal, Simon Godfrey, mentioned Harry Nilsson in a post today, and… if yeez’ll excuse the pun, struck a chord with this ol’ Jurassic immediately… I’ve shared before just for the hell of it, tunes by the incomparable Harry… those of us who grew up in that age straddling the Flower Power generation and the post-Stones/Beatles mania have many great artistes to look back on and enjoy… Harry Nilsson was a one-off… he did things with his voice that many operatic and theatre musical singers find impossible… he was able somehow to bend the WURDS into the emotion in his songs… there was an edge to the tone, a sort of grittiness that made him special… many others have tried to do cover versions of his hits… ‘Without You’, for example, or ‘Have You Ever Seen A Moonbeam’and ‘The Coconut Song’are classics that really belong…
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