Did you know that Harry Nilsson did a version of "Many Rivers to Cross," and that John Lennon produced it? The Nilsson/Lennon thing is no surprise (lost weekend, anyone?) but I was unaware of this musical madness until I happened upon it on our excellently eclectic WMLB radio yesterday.
We know "Me and My Arrow," and as a college freshman, I relished in "You're Breaking My Heart, Tearing Me Apart, So F*** You!" (take that, Cee-Lo Green, Nilsson was there first.)
Here's Harry and John doing some Jimmy Cliff . (And if the arrangement sounds like "Mind Games" in parts, well, yes it does.) The slide show is weird - I don't know what on earth Abe Lincoln has to do with any of the above, so just close your eyes. Or stare at your dashboard in amazement, like I did.
About Me
- jessica handler
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- My first book, "Invisible Sisters: A Memoir" has been named one of "Twenty Five Books All Georgians Should Read!" I would love to visit your bookclub, either in person (in the South) or through the magic of electronics. My writing has received a "Special Mention" for a 2008 Pushcart Prize. I have been honored with a residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, CT., a Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and the 2009 Peter Taylor Nonfiction Fellowship at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Locally, I teach workshops in creative writing, memoir, and feature journalism, and am a member of the faculty of an art college, where I teach screenwriting. I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.) and a B.S. in Communication from Emerson College, in Boston. I used to work in television. I did not push the broom behind the elephant. Usually, I served as mahout - I drove the (allegorical) elephant. If he was SAG or AFTRA. Rock stars do not scare me.
2 comments:
You haven't lived until you've heard Nilsson do "Loop de Loop," from that same collaboration with Lennon, Pussy Cats. Just the most demented thing ever.
Couldn't find a link for it, but wish I could hear it. Thanks for the heads up.
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