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He did far more than I thought he had done.

What a singer/songwriter! he had a grasp of the "catchy" that I'd love to tap into.

http://www.classicbands.com/nilsson.html

From wikipedia:

"...he got a job singing demos for songwriter Scott Turner in 1960. Turner paid Nilsson five dollars for each track they recorded. (When Nilsson became famous, Turner decided to release these early recordings, and contacted Nilsson to work out a fair payment. Nilsson replied that he had already been paid — five dollars a track.)."

I didn't know he wrote this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nB5VxPOoio

philbymon wrote:I didn't know he wrote this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nB5VxPOoio

I did, but I'd forgotten.

He really was brilliant.

"Jump Into The Fire" is one of my favs. And the theme from "Midnight Cowboy".

It's funny. I'd always thought he wrote the theme for Midnight Cowboy, but that was a cover of someone else's song.

As much as he was known as this great songwriter, his biggest hit was a cover!

Let that be a lesson to all you 'originals only' snobs out there!

Jimi Hendrix's biggest songs were covers - "All Along The Watchtower" was his only song to crack the top ten and of course "Hey Joe" (I believe The Leaves did that first?). The Byrd's biggest songs were Dylan covers.