Talk:Harry Nilsson

message: Note: "Harry Nilsson" is his real name.  That's the name he was born with.  Please don't update this page to state that his real name was "Nelson", because it wasn't.  Some reporter in the 1970's said that once, and the mistake refuses to die.  According to all my sources (which include his half-brother Gary Nilsson and his son Zak Nilsson), the family name is Nilsson. Bjimba 17:29, 2005 Mar 2 (UTC) The Family name is indeed NILSSON, no other spelling or variation has ever been used,  Harry's Father, Grandfather were all Harry E Nilsson. (Edit: Pedantic Nitpick - Harry's grandfather was "Charles Harry Nilsson" see: https://nilssonschmilsson.com/charles-harry-nilsson-210716231703.html)
Shouldn't there be a mention of "For the love of Harry: Everybody sings Nilsson"?  Stevie Nicks sang one of the tracks and lists the rest of them. RussNelson 06:43, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Everybody's Talkin'  has been used countless times in countless TV shows, usually with a sense of ironic comedy. It might be impractical to note every instance. Froggywentcourting 20:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Under the heading Early Years, something has gone wrong with the sentence that begins "Harry grew up with his mother Bette..." The next sentence seems to say that Harry's Uncle John taught Harry's brother Drake to sing properly. Is that correct?  Also, not clear who was left behind and who moved. Froggywentcourting 20:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Run-on, words missing

message: What about his song Lamaze for the documentary The Story of Eric?
Didn't he do the soundtrack for it? I know that he wrote "I Am Waiting" and "Lamaze" for it. Did he do additional incedental music for it also?
Ferris Urbanowski was quoted in The Journal of Perinatal Education Vol. 10, No. 2, 2001 as saying, "...Harry Nilsson, composer, musician, and Lamaze parent, who wrote the music for the film."  Antmusic 15:53, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about his songs for the documentary The Story of Eric? 

message: Recently, "In the meantime, Mariah Carey had a worldwide hit in 1994 with her remake of "Without You," featured on her album Music Box" was removed from the article because the user thought it was "irrelevant."  I don't consider Mariah Carey's cover of Nilsson's arrangement of "Without You", irrelevant.  I think it was very important in exposing what a great and timeless arranger Harry Nilsson was.  It is actually why I sought out Nilsson's version (and everything else he did), and it may be why many other people did too.  Should this be voted on whether or not it gets put back in? Antmusic 03:11, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It was his arrangement of the song that she re-made... not the Badfinger arrangement (yes they wrote it, but we know how much Nilsson played with his re-makes). Antmusic 23:47, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I do not consider the Carey cover of Nilsson's version of Without You "irrelevant" 

message: Should there be a mention that although Nilsson initially got his reputation for his compositions, his two biggest hits, chart-wise and sales-wise, were composed by others? 147.70.242.40 23:25, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should there...? 

message: Could someone make a clearer sentence or sentences out of:
This may have been helped by the track "You Can't Do That", in which Nilsson covered one Beatles song but added 22 others in the multi-tracked background vocals
Are there really 22 Beatles songs in the background?
(John User:Jwy talk) 22:23, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: You Can't Do That

message: I have seen in at least two current places (RateYourMusic and Martin C. Strong's The Essential Rock Discography that his birth name was Nelson, not Nilsson. This is untrue. Is correction of this misinformation notable? I have a documentary (death record) source if necessary. (I am also an amateur genealogist) Fantailfan (talk) 13:37, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nilsson not Nelson 

message: I removed the fact tag after providing a dozen or so citations, including the items that were individually marked for {fact}.  If there are other items that users believe need to be cited, I suggest that the {fact} tag be added in-text rather than the page-level tag.Historymike (talk) 23:12, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fact tag

message: Was Nilsson's song 'Spaceman' in the 1997 film Contact? I am sure I heard it when I watched it on TV a few weeks back.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.3.206.254 (talk) 22:57, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contact? 

message: The indie band The Walkmen do an entire Nilsson tribute album. It would deserve mention ever without all the other talk of legacy & tribute, but should def be there now...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.84.64.107 (talk) 21:07, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Walkmen 

message: Currently this article claims that Cindy Sims embezzled funds from other clients in order to support Nilssons lavish lifestyle and subsequently he found himself bankrupt. However there are no references to this fact and other sources on the internet have another version where Cindy Sims embezzled the money of Nilsson and other of her clients. A cleanup seems to be necessary here and proper references are clearly needed. 84.208.212.38 (talk) 23:55, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: SOMETHING happened: http://www.harrynilsson.com/page-cindy-sims-begins-serving-a-two-year-prison-sentence.html and should be included.  Is there a biography? (John User:Jwy talk) 05:25, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

text: Found a good source for what has been in their for a long time.  Will restore and cite. (John User:Jwy talk) 06:33, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  About Cindy Sims 

message: ummmm...
no mention whatsoever of Son Of Dracula ?
i see that it is listed in the filmography, and there is also a seperate page for the movie, but shouldn't it be included in the basic text on Harry's career ? possibly with a link to the Son Of Dracula Page ?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.110.121.85 (talk) 20:40, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Son Of Dracula 

message: At the height of her fame and power, Ross worked a large portion of The Point into her mid-1970's stage show, which was also extensively included in her double live album in 1976, a whole LP side devoted to it, in fact. This was major exposure of Nilsson's work, on a par with, or even beyond anything the Beatles did for him, not to mention bringing his music to black and soul music-loving audiences who normally would never have sought out or heard much of Nilsson's music. Ross should be given credit for this, (assuming she paid the royalties!) and I was surprised it was not mentioned here. Likeamanshand (talk) 20:38, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diana Ross 

message: Sorry, I appear to have wiped the whole page.  I suppose the moderator has a backup somewhere, yes? It can't be that easy to delete a whole page, can it? Likeamanshand (talk) 20:42, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oh dear 

message: I'm new to Nilsson but came across a link today that refutes the assertion that his father abandoned him. Would this be considered a reliable source? I'd "be bold" and all that and re-write the section if I had more knowledge of the subject.
Ponydepression (talk) 19:02, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early life (father) 

message: How do you properly pronounce his name? Is it Neal-Son. Nils-Son, Nil-Son? or what? This should be noted
99.184.222.51 (talk) 13:50, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

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message: The statement that the song Lime In The Coconut was performed with the chord of C7 all the way through was inappropriately marked with a citation challenge. Almost any person conversant with music and the simplest music notation (millions of them) would either already know this or verify it for him/herself immediately. Those for whom this basic musical knowledge is lacking wouldn't know or care if the song was labeled as being in C Major or E flat minor, but even the most musically ignorant could tell when a chord changes; or not, in this case. What the key or chord is 'claimed' to be has no effect whatsoever on the subjective perception of the song by anyone. If you have no clue whether this song or Ravel's Boléro was in the key of C major (which they both are) or not, and never could understand anyway, what's it to you? If there is no hope of the questioner understanding the answer (as is obvious here) then don't be such a nuisance. In any case, there are many competent musicians (millions of them, including thousands of music professors)  who would have corrected this statement (by edit) very soon had it been in error. In the subsequent abuse of [citation needed], the naming by the author of the drummer and the bass player in the song Jump Into The Fire was challenged. Here is the link for verification of the author's 'claim': http://www.harrynilsson.com/files/2011/02/NSLiners5.jpg  I am not well versed in Wiki editing, but I hope someone will insert the citation soon, thank you in advance. Or not.
The 'Spirit of the Law' as explained in Wiki's ground rules for [citation needed] is that it only be used to prevent obvious indications of false pretense or misdirection, attempting to insert opinion as fact, that the author might be incompetent to the subject, and suchlike. The author of this article is obviously competent to the subject, and obviously has no 'agenda' regarding either the chord used in the one song or the personnel used in the other. I propose that this [citation needed] abuser is in clear violation of Wiki's policy in this regard. I have seen this same abuse across a variety of subjects on this site, and it is quite annoying. In this instance, both the chord used in Coconut (and it's use throughout) and the personnel used in Jump Into The Fire are either readily acknowledged by many or so easily verified as to not require hyper-academic treatment. This not far behind "Ringo was the Beatles drummer" [citation needed].
This site is run rampant with academia shucksterism, rife with citations unavailable to anyone but professors or their temporary students (or otherwise with a ready credit card), and their incessant 'demands' from honest and knowledgeable contributors to feed that process.     — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:558:6011:34:C075:759B:A1E2:BD7B (talk) 07:02, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abuse of [citation needed]  

message: He refused to be managed by Brian Epstein because he was gay. Dick. Malick78 (talk) 21:08, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homophobe 

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message: It seems that the entire "Career" section is overly detailed, wordy, uses out of context statements and, overall, more like a book or magazine article than a WP page.  In addition, the subsection about his apartment/flat doesn't belong in the career section -- if in the article at all.
I made minor edits to the first two sections of the article but this career section is just beyond me.  I hope some editor is willing to take this on. -Arbalest Mike (talk) 18:39, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Career 

message: Why didn't Harry tour or perform live regularly? Was there a reason why he was unable or unwilling to take regular tours, let alone commercialise his work to make it more accessible to a mainstream audience, so that he could be as big as James Taylor, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Elton John, Carole King, Carly Simon, Neil Diamond or Neil Young to name but a few - this was, after all, the era of the singer-songwriter.
61.69.217.3 (talk) 12:36, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It already explains why in the article - he did not like performing.--Ilovetopaint (talk) 13:35, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: In addition, the movie biography on Nilsson mentions he felt the studio was where he "performed". In an included interview with his first wife, she mentions he did do a live performance upon a visit to England. It was more of a performance at a press conference and the movie has video footage of a portion of this event.THX1136 (talk) 12:54, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reason for rarely performing live 

message: I argue for either getting rid of the filmography section, retrofitting it or giving it its own page. Most popular nillson songs not counting covers have appeared in 2-3 movies each. For Example Everybody's talkin was in 5 movies and tv show, coconut being in 3 movies. if we count covers movies that have "one" and without you could have a longer page than the rest of the article  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mixedupzombies (talk • contribs) 04:08, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filmography Section 

message: I removed the claim that the Monkees had a "hit" with Cuddly Toy. It was included as a track on PAC&J, but it was never released as a single. It would be accurate to say the song was included on a "hit" album, but inaccurate to say the song itself was a "hit" by the group.THX1136 (talk) 01:14, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cuddly Toy "hit" claim 

message: Should there not be mention on Metallica covering "One", which had major chart success and helped bring the metal genre to the mainstream? 2601:40E:101:5660:5028:8250:35B0:7A9A (talk) 20:54, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: That’s a completely different song. As far I can tell there is no relation between them. 2603:7000:5100:B5:E86F:8DF:378:EF5F (talk) 01:45, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "One" covers 

message: Tom was Liverpool born not “Welsh”. Source, I am a relative. 2A00:23C6:8881:BB01:4180:94EA:2955:37EA (talk) 08:53, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tom Evans 

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message: Without You was a Badfinger song that he covered and they should be credited for! 2600:8801:9A26:E600:AC0F:E413:3D5F:2872 (talk) 00:27, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Without You was a Badfinger song that he covered and they should be credited for! 

message: “Remember” - one of his best <3 2600:1702:16C0:3460:81A8:7995:B6F7:1847 (talk) 06:29, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Songs in soundtrack for “You’ve Got Mail” 

message: Maybe an overlook, but, “Cuddly Toy”, “Daddy’s Song”, & “Good Times” we’re all covered and released by The Monkees. ( There may have been others covered, but, not released officially.) They ARE mentioned in the body of the article, but, so are others at the bottom. ( And, being a cover - “Daddy’s Song” - I get why the film “Head” is not noted.)
Trivia(?): He was a good friend of Graham Chapman, and made a cameo appearance as a Mountie, singing in the “Lumberjack Song” chorus, during one of the 1976 Monty Python Live At City Center shows. Notoriously recalled in the book “Monty Python Live”, by Eric Idle, remembering him being drunk and falling off the stage into the orchestra pit! 75.106.32.81 (talk) 23:24, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Covers, Tributes, etc.