The reason why RCA didn't promote this in '77 was the death of Elvis! That's where RCA put the add money, breaking their promise to Nilsson!! Harry never forgave them!!
just watched a bbc docu about harry nilsson. i love the guy, he was an absolute genius. he settlede down with a beautiful irish girl. she was 19 wen he met her. she was his 3rd wife. ringo starr was best man at their wedding. harry had 5 kids with her. R.I.P harry. thanks for the music. mike, from liverpool.
I just heard this on a pub jukebox...went upto the bar and asked who sings it...the chord changes made me and my mate stop in our tracks. I hadn't heard it until today, can you believe that? I thought it was a mellow Echo and the Bunnymen tune haha.
LOL "She stomped on my heart and mashed that sucker flat..." (borrowed from John Denver). No, the song is like a dagger to the heart my friend. I really love this one obviously. Thanks for the smile, Bill.
How up till now , this beautiful piece of music hasn't being included in the ending credits of a major hollywood movie is a mystery but someday it will .
Wow.... how did the choir hold that chord in the air at the end like that ? Amazing and like the Evangel Temple Choir on Johnny Cash's thing called love ' a heart warming , pure human touch .
Juanita, an old lover of mine, many years ago, gave me a cassette whose tittle was "Assorted". There, I heard this song for the first time, and I was instantly shocked. ¡What a beautiful song! ¡What a great voice! ¡What a gorgeus heavenly choir! The producer is a genious. What's left? ¡NOTHING! This is the best song I've ever heard!
a girl who was a friend of mine gave me this single many years ago,it was our song,she was killed in a car crash when only 17 yrs old,she was gorgeous,my first true love,i will never forget her,i have been very happily married for nearly 30 yrs,but this song always brings tears to my eyes as to what might have been?
I'm getting to learn more and more about Harry & his music, but so far from what I've heard of this album, I'm beginning to think that RCA really shot themselves in the foot by not giving this album the attention and promotion it deserved only because Elvis died around the time this album was released.
i love it. always have. its probably his most soulful vocal. There`s such an elegant richness to his voice that wasnt there before the massive drink+coke binge....but man-o-man...do i love this tone, and brandy alex`s ;)
i love it. always have. its probably his most soulful vocal. There`s such an elegant richness to his voice that wasnt there before the massive drink+coke binge....but man-o-man...do i love this tone, and brandy alex`s ;)
Heard this for the first time every yesterday and it blew me away.......Without a doubt ahead of its time and even today is a timeless and fantastic track.
Honestly it's the way the choir is arranged at the end, holding onto those notes while the chord changes underneath - the beauty just makes me well up
Such a beautiful song. The melody, chords, arrangement - esp the choir - all wonderful. Always sends shivers down my spine. I think this is his best song. RIP Harry
The first time I heard this was about 16 years ago on the Personal Best collection. It was at the end of a bunch of Harry songs I'd heard many times before.
By the end of this, I was in tears. I had to close my door so that my roommates didn't have to see a big lug like me cry.
Harry, you sure could turn a tune into a thing of beauty.
From one of Harry's finest LPs "KNILLSSON". On a personal level, this exquisite song of lost love takes me back to summer 77', & a girl i liked, this was the last time i saw her, i went back years later to the house.. 'She does'nt live here anymore... On a musical level the song builds beautifully, the choir boy's harmony of perpetual high 'Gs' & 'Bs' through the final descending chords is heavenly..
I just love it. I love all of Harry's ballads, and "Remember" just goes right to the deepest part of my heart. "Caroline and Without you" rank right up there as well. If you are listening (and you know who you are) I really can't think of anything but you. It's always been you, for 45 years now. I love you.
There are hundreds of tunes I could choose from to compile my Top 20, spanning 45 years or so. This would be in my Top Ten.
I vaguely recall this being released in late summer 1977, around the time 'Im In You' by Peter Frampton had just come out, and neither made the 'big time'. Some tracks are literally 'too good' for the charts in the UK.
The song is great, and Nilsson has to be one of the most underrated singer/songwriters ever, but your statement about education doesn't make sense. Nilsson is exceptional, but for the most part, education is the answer to many problems, and, more importantly, an inherent, objective value, that is, in and of itself.
Proper education yes,but not an education to get a better job and be a more efficient slave. What's the #1 reason people go to college? To make more money? Most of the things they teach you in college support industries that are destructive to the planet, the organism that we came from. I totally agree that education can solve many
problems, but our education system, for the most part, is set up to drive the economy, not to create a more peaceful and harmonious society.
Ah, I see, you meant, basically, a bourgeois "education" which is, for all intents and purposes, indoctrination. Yes, true. I am glad we had a chance to clarify this, because I completely agree with you -- in fact, I would say that not only is education a servant of a market system, it is itself a commodity, a product, within that system. College is capital. Another one of my favorite autodidacts is Stanley Kubrick -- utterly exceptional like Nilsson, as well. Perhaps I was thinking of a utopia.
Quite right imzadiana. It wasn't a big hit in England, it just scraped into the top 50 in Aug. 1977. But the haunting melodies and lyrics have stayed with me for over 30 years - it's great to find the song posted here.
This is so achingly beautiful. I can't listen to this without breaking into tears.
bandcouver 2 weeks ago
The reason why RCA didn't promote this in '77 was the death of Elvis! That's where RCA put the add money, breaking their promise to Nilsson!! Harry never forgave them!!
saintcruzin 1 month ago
Incredibly beautiful and moving, heavenly!...God bless you Harry, I really hope you're having a great time with John and George
mallard4998 2 months ago
just watched a bbc docu about harry nilsson. i love the guy, he was an absolute genius. he settlede down with a beautiful irish girl. she was 19 wen he met her. she was his 3rd wife. ringo starr was best man at their wedding. harry had 5 kids with her. R.I.P harry. thanks for the music. mike, from liverpool.
MegaMikey2121 4 months ago
Beautiful song, beautiful voice...R.I.P. Harry
CATHERINEDAVIES123 5 months ago
The most incredible voice ever. Miss you Harry! Hope your havin' a blast with John and George.
mdw302 5 months ago 2
I just heard this on a pub jukebox...went upto the bar and asked who sings it...the chord changes made me and my mate stop in our tracks. I hadn't heard it until today, can you believe that? I thought it was a mellow Echo and the Bunnymen tune haha.
burnsybaby1987 6 months ago
DiCarlo luvs Nilsson!! one of his greatest recordings is this one =)
DavidDiCarlo 6 months ago
As beautiful today as it was all those years ago.
Philpotts24 7 months ago
An achingly beautiful song. Just moves me to tears every time I hear it.
bandcouver 7 months ago
Fell in love with this song the same week I fell in love with my (now) wife - - still makes me cry ;(
chris2fm 7 months ago
a dagger to the heart
atimtambaby 9 months ago
@atimtambaby the wife or the song?
billmaricel 4 months ago
@billmaricel
LOL "She stomped on my heart and mashed that sucker flat..." (borrowed from John Denver). No, the song is like a dagger to the heart my friend. I really love this one obviously. Thanks for the smile, Bill.
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atimtambaby 4 months ago
Still magic I hear ...every-time. Harry and John Lennon are looking down and saying YEAH ......thanks again ...
luxyaltz219 9 months ago
Amazing
aboutdafunk 11 months ago
Sweet..........!
luxyaltz219 1 year ago
How up till now , this beautiful piece of music hasn't being included in the ending credits of a major hollywood movie is a mystery but someday it will .
Thank you .
luxyaltz219 1 year ago
This is an absolute masterpiece. Why didn't RCA promote it? Judging by most of the crap from 1977, this could have been huge.
Greggo2 1 year ago
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pinkskinnedman 1 year ago
Wow.... how did the choir hold that chord in the air at the end like that ? Amazing and like the Evangel Temple Choir on Johnny Cash's thing called love ' a heart warming , pure human touch .
luxyaltz219 1 year ago
what an insane man
musicalchair69butts 1 year ago
Juanita, an old lover of mine, many years ago, gave me a cassette whose tittle was "Assorted". There, I heard this song for the first time, and I was instantly shocked. ¡What a beautiful song! ¡What a great voice! ¡What a gorgeus heavenly choir! The producer is a genious. What's left? ¡NOTHING! This is the best song I've ever heard!
Luchilin 1 year ago
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Luchilin 1 year ago
a girl who was a friend of mine gave me this single many years ago,it was our song,she was killed in a car crash when only 17 yrs old,she was gorgeous,my first true love,i will never forget her,i have been very happily married for nearly 30 yrs,but this song always brings tears to my eyes as to what might have been?
angleseyman 1 year ago 3
I'm getting to learn more and more about Harry & his music, but so far from what I've heard of this album, I'm beginning to think that RCA really shot themselves in the foot by not giving this album the attention and promotion it deserved only because Elvis died around the time this album was released.
MAMsMom97 1 year ago
Beautiful-what album is this from? Im a new HN fan
jhill2704 1 year ago 2
@jhill2704 Knnillssonn ( from 1977 )
45rpmSINGLES 1 year ago
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
onerydoory 1 year ago
beautiful. a truly bitter-sweet song. holds many memories, as does clifford t wards up in the world, also a gorgeous bitter-sweet song.
spooksixsix 1 year ago
i love it. always have. its probably his most soulful vocal. There`s such an elegant richness to his voice that wasnt there before the massive drink+coke binge....but man-o-man...do i love this tone, and brandy alex`s ;)
(jim`ll fx it nicked this melody btw)
dixienarco2008 1 year ago 2
i love it. always have. its probably his most soulful vocal. There`s such an elegant richness to his voice that wasnt there before the massive drink+coke binge....but man-o-man...do i love this tone, and brandy alex`s ;)
(jim`ll fx it nicked this melody btw)
dixienarco2008 1 year ago
Heard this for the first time every yesterday and it blew me away.......Without a doubt ahead of its time and even today is a timeless and fantastic track.
cgrextreme 2 years ago 7
Honestly it's the way the choir is arranged at the end, holding onto those notes while the chord changes underneath - the beauty just makes me well up
81MJT 2 years ago 3
@81MJT nail on head about choir at the end bruv .......beautiful
luxyaltz219 1 year ago
Such a beautiful song. The melody, chords, arrangement - esp the choir - all wonderful. Always sends shivers down my spine. I think this is his best song. RIP Harry
81MJT 2 years ago
The first time I heard this was about 16 years ago on the Personal Best collection. It was at the end of a bunch of Harry songs I'd heard many times before.
By the end of this, I was in tears. I had to close my door so that my roommates didn't have to see a big lug like me cry.
Harry, you sure could turn a tune into a thing of beauty.
tommyrock69 2 years ago 13
@tommyrock69 i can relate to that, this song moves me close to tears too. a truly bitter-sweet song.
spooksixsix 4 months ago
Wonderful.
PortVienna80 2 years ago
this song is outstanding you could be stupid but youd still know that
thomasarig 2 years ago
I remember when this came out in '77 because my parents were Nilsson fans and bought the record. This brings back memories of happier times.
This song itself is a stunning masterpiece.....Nilsson was hugely influential.
tommybass40 2 years ago
From one of Harry's finest LPs "KNILLSSON". On a personal level, this exquisite song of lost love takes me back to summer 77', & a girl i liked, this was the last time i saw her, i went back years later to the house.. 'She does'nt live here anymore... On a musical level the song builds beautifully, the choir boy's harmony of perpetual high 'Gs' & 'Bs' through the final descending chords is heavenly..
gazzymodo 2 years ago 4
I just love it. I love all of Harry's ballads, and "Remember" just goes right to the deepest part of my heart. "Caroline and Without you" rank right up there as well. If you are listening (and you know who you are) I really can't think of anything but you. It's always been you, for 45 years now. I love you.
454something 2 years ago
There are hundreds of tunes I could choose from to compile my Top 20, spanning 45 years or so. This would be in my Top Ten.
I vaguely recall this being released in late summer 1977, around the time 'Im In You' by Peter Frampton had just come out, and neither made the 'big time'. Some tracks are literally 'too good' for the charts in the UK.
Glamagal20091 2 years ago
stunning,what a masterpiece!
cosmicwarrior287 2 years ago
From the album Knnillssonn. 1977.
laejnaek 2 years ago 2
I still can't believe how great this song is.
Nilsson only completed the 9th grade in high school. Goes to show you that education isn't the answer.
apeshitdig 2 years ago
The song is great, and Nilsson has to be one of the most underrated singer/songwriters ever, but your statement about education doesn't make sense. Nilsson is exceptional, but for the most part, education is the answer to many problems, and, more importantly, an inherent, objective value, that is, in and of itself.
darkprose 2 years ago 4
Proper education yes,but not an education to get a better job and be a more efficient slave. What's the #1 reason people go to college? To make more money? Most of the things they teach you in college support industries that are destructive to the planet, the organism that we came from. I totally agree that education can solve many
problems, but our education system, for the most part, is set up to drive the economy, not to create a more peaceful and harmonious society.
apeshitdig 2 years ago 2
Ah, I see, you meant, basically, a bourgeois "education" which is, for all intents and purposes, indoctrination. Yes, true. I am glad we had a chance to clarify this, because I completely agree with you -- in fact, I would say that not only is education a servant of a market system, it is itself a commodity, a product, within that system. College is capital. Another one of my favorite autodidacts is Stanley Kubrick -- utterly exceptional like Nilsson, as well. Perhaps I was thinking of a utopia.
darkprose 2 years ago 2
In a trillion years, throughout the universe, there will never be another Nilsson.
apeshitdig 2 years ago
very beautiful
lemaijic 3 years ago 2
Quite right imzadiana. It wasn't a big hit in England, it just scraped into the top 50 in Aug. 1977. But the haunting melodies and lyrics have stayed with me for over 30 years - it's great to find the song posted here.
gusgorilla76 3 years ago
i love this track. it should have been a massive hit
imzadiana 3 years ago 3
Never knew this was a single. Couldn't have been a hit in England.
coolitababy 3 years ago
(LEE) i got this on 45. i love this song. beautiful. love the b-side, old bones too. a great single.
denhamlewis 3 years ago
this was in monkey dust
spaceagewave103 3 years ago
So nice to hear this song again, one of my HN favourites which never seems to get the 'airtime' that it deserves. Many thanks for posting!
xyzkerry 3 years ago