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Harry Nilsson (pictured in 1972) covered Badfinger's song "Without You".. Harry Nilsson, at the time best known for his hit "Everybody's Talkin'" and for composing "One", recorded by Three Dog Night, heard Badfinger's recording of "Without You" at a party, [16] and mistook it for a Beatles song.
Nilsson Schmilsson is the seventh studio album by American singer Harry Nilsson, released by RCA Records on November 11, 1971. It was Nilsson's most commercially successful work, producing three of his best-known songs. Among these was the number 1 hit "Without You", written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of the group Badfinger.
Nilsson was born on June 15, 1941 in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighbourhood of Brooklyn in New York City. [7] [8] His paternal great-grandfather, a Swede who later emigrated to and became naturalized in the United States, created an act known as an "aerial ballet" (which is the title of one of Nilsson's albums).
"Without You" (Badfinger song), 1970, covered by Harry Nilsson, Shirley Bassey, Air Supply, T. G. Sheppard, and other artists "Without You" (Mariah Carey recording), Mariah Carey's rendition of the song, 1993 "Without You", by the Doobie Brothers from The Captain and Me, 1973 "Without You", by Janis Ian from Stars, 1974
Legendary Harry Nilsson. Released: 2000; Label: BMG 74321785652 — — The Essential Nilsson. ... "Without You" (written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans) 1 1 1 1 1 10
Ham's greatest songwriting success came with his co-written composition with bandmate Tom Evans called "Without You" – a worldwide number-one when it was later covered by Harry Nilsson and released in 1971. The song has since become a standard and has been covered by hundreds of singers, most notably Mariah Carey who made it a worldwide hit ...
BMG, owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, has established a niche by amassing catalogs of influential artists.
Their song "Without You" (1970) has been recorded many times, and became a UK and US number-one hit for Harry Nilsson in 1972 and a UK number-one for Mariah Carey in 1994. In 1972, "Without You" saw co-writers Ham and Evans receive the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically from the Songwriters Guild of Great Britain. [3]