"Everybody's Talkin'", "Without You", "Me and My Arrow", "Coconut", "One"... Do we need to go on?
Covered Up: Nobody remembers Fred Neil's original version of "Everybody's Talkin'" anymore. And conversely, Nilsson's "Without You", itself a cover of a Badfinger song, was covered up by Mariah Carey, her version being released weeks after his death.
Three Dog Night's version of "One" was their Breakthrough Hit, and many people don't even know that it's a Nilsson song.
Ensemble Dark Horse: Steel drum player Robert Greenidge was a memorable fixture of Nilsson's mid-70s sound.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: A number of his singles did better in Canada than the US. "You Can't Do That" and "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City" were Top 10 hits. "Everybody's Talkin'" made the Top 40 in its original release and hit #1 in its reissue, and a couple songs that didn't even chart in the US made the Canadian charts.
Harsher in Hindsight: "1941" gets a bit too uncomfortably close to real-life reports of Nilsson's domestic life.
"I'd Rather Be Dead" and "Down by the Sea" are about dreading the thought of growing old. He died of heart failure at the age of 52.
Heartwarming Moments: "Remember (Christmas)". It's not for nothing it's the go-to closer for any Nilsson compilation worth its salt.
Misattributed Song: If rock folklore is to be believed, an interesting case of an artist doing the misattributing. Nilsson heard Badfinger's "Without You" at a party and thought it was The Beatles. When he found out it wasn't, he decided to do a Cover Version.
Posthumous Popularity Potential: Nilsson's death didn't get much notice beyond the standard celebrity obituaries in 1994note It didn't help that a 6.7 earthquake hit the LA area two days later, dominating news coverage. The joke among his friends was that it was actually Harry throwing a fit after learning there were no bars in Heaven.. Understandable, since he hadn't released an album in over 13 years. At that point he was mainly remembered for a handful of hits and as John Lennon's "Lost Weekend" drinking buddy. Since then a confluence of factors helped rejuvenate his reputation: several Nilsson songs featured prominently in movies, a small but enthusiastic fandom, websites devoted to his work, a well-executed remaster and reissue campaign by RCA Records, the acclaimed documentary Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) and biography Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter by Alyn Shipton, plus the enduring popularity of The Point.
Sampled Up: While "Everybody's Talkin'" is still remembered as a quintessential 60s folk pop classic, few recognize that the melody of Paul Oakenfold's "Starry Eyed Surprise" uses a heavily processed sample of its opening lick.
Sequel Displacement: 1967's Pandemonium Shadow Show is often called his debut album, but it was actually his second, after 1966's somewhat obscure Spotlight on Nilsson. It was his first formal attempt at an album, though, since Spotlight was just a hastily thrown-together compilation of various singles sides and unreleased songs.
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