Here are four great songs written by Harry Nilsson that were, or maybe should’ve been, hits for other artists.

Harry Nilsson was one of pop music’s most gifted eccentrics, blessed with the voice of an angel, the mind of the smartest clown in class, a rare talent for getting inside the emotions of a lyric and ...

Harry Nilsson once gave The Monkees a number of songs. One of the songs became the title track of one of the Prefab Four’s albums. Subsequently, Peter Tork said the song made more sense in the context ...

"Gotta Get Up" joins the short list of Nilsson tracks from the 1970s that have become timeless soundtrack and advertising perennials. Harry Nilsson’s catalog is a bit of a Russian doll itself: Anyone ...

Harry Nilsson was in poor health, low on money, two decades removed from his last song on the music charts, and unable to get a record deal. Yet he was determinedly writing songs again, recording ...

While his biggest hit, “Without You”, continues its reign at the top of the British and American charts, Harry Nilsson is attending to the pressing business of bussing in 30 senior citizens from the ...

Increasingly in recent years, Miami’s Mad Cat Theatre Company has explored founder-artistic director Paul Tei’s passion for music through concert presentations of albums. Beginning with Paul and Linda ...

On the first posthumous album from the prodigious singer-songwriter, his renowned talent often feels lost in the glut of over-the-top arrangements, flashy production, and cheesy songwriting. Losst and ...

This is Celia Hirschman with On the Beat for KCRW. Last Friday, the documentary, Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him) opened in LA at the Laemmle Sunset 5. For those who may ...