Greatest Hits

Performer: Harry Nilsson
Artist: Tom Scott; Randy Newman; George Harrison; Gary Wright; Ringo Starr; Peter Frampton
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Personnel includes: Harry Nilsson (vocals, piano, electric piano, Mellotron); Gordon Jenkins (arranger, conductor); Peter Frampton (acoustic & electric guitars); George Harrison (slide guitar, cowbell); Arnold Belnick, Leonard Atkins (violin); Jesse Ehrlich (cello); Pop Arts String Quartet (strings); Tom Scott (flute, saxophone, trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn); Richard T. Nash (baritone saxophone, trombone); Mike Melvoin (piano, harpsichord); Randy Newman, Gary Wright (piano); John Guerin (vibraphone, tympani); Alfred McKibbon (bass); Donald R. Frost (drums); Milt Holland (tabla, percussion). Producers include: Rick Jarrad, Harry Nilsson, Richard Perry, Derek Taylor. Recorded at RCA, The Record Plant, Hollywood, California; Trident, CTS Studios, London, England between February 17, 1967 and April 3, 1974. Includes liner notes by Curtis Armstrong. All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Though he's best known for his versions of other people's songs (Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin'," Badfinger's "Without You," an entire album of Randy Newman songs), Nilsson was a skilled composer, and is recognized as a pop craftsman of the first order. As a songwriter, he placed tunes with the Monkees, the Yardbirds and others. As a singer he managed to wring greatly expressive range from his uniquely flexible voice, and is recognized as a pop craftsman of the first order.

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