Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

In 1969 Harry Nilsson broke into the Top 40 with the song "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City". The song was originally intended to be used as the theme for the movie "Midnight Cowboy" but another Nilsson song "Everybody's Talkin' wound up being used instead.  Harry never toured, rarely made public appearances and spent a lot of time hitting the bottle heavily, often with buddy John Lennon.  But his music was always amazingly good, and I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City deserves air play.
Incidentally, Nilsson is part of the weirdest rock trivia question ever:
Question- what do Keith Moon of the Who and Mama Cass Elliot's deaths have in common?
Answer- they both died in the same bedroom of Harry Nilsson's London flat.