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Personal Best: The Harry Nilsson Anthology (CD)

By: Harry Nilsson (Artist)

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Harry Nilsson Artist Snapshot:

Though he's best known for his versions of other people's songs (Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin'," Badfinger's "Without You," an entire album of Randy Newman songs), Nilsson was a skilled composer, and is recognized as a pop craftsman of the first order. As a songwriter, he placed tunes with the Monkees, the Yardbirds and others. As a singer he managed to wring greatly expressive range from his uniquely flexible voice, and is recognized as a pop craftsman of the first order.

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DISC 1 for Personal Best: The Harry Nilsson Anthology (CD) Album By Harry Nilsson (Artist)
1   1941
2   Without Her
3   As I Wander Lonely - (previously unreleased)
4   Ten Little Indians
5   You Can't Do That
6   Miss Butter's Lament - (previously unreleased)
7   One
8   Mr. Richland's Favorite Song
9   Everybody's Talkin' - (from "Midnight Cowboy")
10   Together
11   Don't Leave Me
12   Good Old Desk
13   I Will Take You There - (from "Skidoo")
14   Girlfriend - (previously unreleased)
15   Wasting My Time - (previously unreleased)
16   Mournin' Glory Story
17   Open Your Window
18   Maybe
19   Nobody Cares About The Railroads Anymore
20   I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City
21   Vine Street
22   Me And My Arrow
23   Think About Your Troubles
24   Early In The Morning
25   Without You
26   Moonbeam Song, The
27   Coconut
28   Jump Into The Fire - (single version)
 
DISC 2 for Personal Best: The Harry Nilsson Anthology (CD) Album By Harry Nilsson (Artist)
1   Gotta Get Up
2   Joy
3   Turn On Your Radio
4   Most Beautiful World In The World, The
5   You're Breakin' My Heart
6   Spaceman
7   Remember (Christmas)
8   It Is He Who Will Be King (Outro) / Daybreak
9   As Time Goes By
10   Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You)
11   Over The Rainbow
12   Many Rivers To Cross
13   Don't Forget Me
14   Easier For Me
15   Down By The Sea
16   Salmon Falls
17   Good For God
18   Here's Why I Did Not Go To Work Today, (Thursday)
19   Sail Away
20   All I Think About Is You
21   Perfect Day
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (8/10/95, p.60) - "...combine[s] melodic genius and verbal intelligence with grace and ingenuity..."
Entertainment Weekly (2/24-3/3/95, p.120) - "...The sublime tenor, who died [in 1994], left behind a bewilderingly mercurial catalog, ranging from neo-barbershop to Ray Charles-style soul, to kiddie ditties, to rudimentary rock. This collection takes in all that, along with chart-toppers..."
- Rating: A
Village Voice (2/20/96) - Tied for #7 on the Reissues list of Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.

Title Note

Producers include: Rick Jarrad, Harry Nilsson, Richard Perry, Derek Taylor, John Lennon.

Compilation producer: Paul Williams.

Engineers include: Robin Geoffrey Cable, Ken Scott, Phil McDonald.

Includes liner notes by Derek Taylor, Dawn Eden and Paul Williams.

Digitally remastered by Eddie Tallia and James P. Nichols.

To effectively convey the full wonder of Harry Nilsson's songs and recordings, two discs really represent a minimum. PERSONAL BEST includes the hits, along with enough other important album tracks and rarities to make an effective case for the enduring merits of Nilsson (however, anyone interested in a collection of the hits alone should investigate his ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS). Nilsson wrote songs for other artists before breaking into the charts on his own. He was a romantic and jesting writer and stylist of great range and taste. Ironically, over the course of his hit-making years, a couple of his biggest hits were written by others--"Everybody's Talkin'" (by Fred Neil) and "Without You" (by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger). Nilsson was involved in the preparation of this anthology at the time of his early death in 1994.

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