Harry Nilsson - All-Time Greatest Hits

Harry Nilsson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: July 18, 1989
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000002WD4
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,923 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #89 in Music > Pop > Oldies > Baroque Pop

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars With a name like Nilsson you have to expect uniqueness, May 12, 2001

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harry Nilsson - All-Time Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Harry Nilsson was one of those talent singer-songwriters, like Randy Newman (whose "Caroline" he covers on this album), whose reputation exceeds their popularity. With Harry's musical career, irony abounds. His hit song "One" was a big hit for somebody else, namely Three Dog Night, while his hits "Everybody's Talkin'" from "Midnight Cowboy" and "Without You" were written by others. He could write a wonderful nonsense song like "Coconut" and then turn out something more serious like "I Guess the Lord Must Be In New York City." The Ringo Starr movie "Son of Dracula" inspired "Daybreak," while Nilsson achieved some small degree of immortality by doing the script and songs for animated television special "The Point," the best known of which is "Me and My Arrow." Then, when he works in a cover of "As Time Goes By," you have to figure he has pretty much covered all the bases. This is a fine collection of Nilsson songs, although it would have been nice to hear some of his other songs that were successfully covered such as "Ten Little Indians" (The Yardbirds) and "Cuddly Toy" (The Monkees).

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Harry Nilsson, a sensitive, young artist with super muse., July 14, 1999

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This review is from: Harry Nilsson - All-Time Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

After hearing his redition of "Remember" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" during the movie "You've Got Mail," I was haunted by the timbre of his voice. I purchased this CD and was so lucky to have "With Out You" as one of this artist's hits. A true monument to this performer.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Nilsson Collection, December 22, 2003

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Candace Scott (Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harry Nilsson - All-Time Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

There are currently three Nilsson Greatest Hits packages and this is by far the best selection of songs, with no conspicuous omissions. Nilsson was fabulous and so under-appreciated today. I loved him as a child in the 70's and grew up on his dulcet-toned voice filtering through the house. I figured anyone that hung out with Ringo and John Lennon had to be the apex of cool, and he certainly was that. This album encompases his greatest hits as well as some of his lesser known ballads. Not only could Harry write beautiful songs, he sang some awesome cover versions, such as "Over the Rainbow," which would give even Judy Garland a run for her money.

I think the most lovely track here is "Remember," which had a brief revival when it was included in the trivial Tom Hanks movie, "You've Got Mail." This introduced Nilsson to a generation who was robbed of his talent through his premature and untimely death. This is a good collection of his work. I can't imagine anyone with good taste not appreciating this man's body of work. Beautiful stuff.