Harry Nilsson - Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear

Written by Randy Newman

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Harry
• Nilsson
• Simon
• Smith
• and
• the
• Amazing
• Dancing
• Bear

[milkyleah]

Nice cover -- some mention of Randy Newman in title or info would be nice...

[420walstib]

Awesome!!!

[xlgosling]

This is good, but I prefer the version by Alan Price. Randy Newman is a fantastic song writer.

[herepigsfly]

This is the version I remember from my hapless youth, though it was apparently a hit for Alan Price in the mid-60s, & was written & also performed by Newman. The Nilsson version was famous in its own right, though.

[bdicat]

But when you buy the Nilsson Sings Newman import it is on there

[gabe25591]

@bdicat No, it's on Harry - despite it being a Randy Newman song, it isn't actually on Nilsson Sings Newman (1970), which was recorded and released after Harry (1969). I can imagine it was probably one of the factors that led up to the creation of NSN!

[ThePhatboy3]

Cool arrangement of this song. I also love the Muppet version.

[GlenAnne99]

Thank You for the share, Cj :) Love it!

Annie

[bdicat]

Lets not forget it is on Nilsson Sings Newman.

[justmusicandme]

@milkyleah : Has since been corrected, as I see above. :-)

[worldtalker]

I wish I had written this incredibly cool song!

[1949kato]

1967... graduating from Mater Christi, HS Queens,NY...This song is even cooler now...sang it all that summer...Thanks for the memory...Ken