Everybody's talking at me
I don't hear a word they're saying
Only the echoes of my mind
People stopping staring
I can't see their faces
Only the shadows of their eyes
I'm going where the sun keeps shining
Thru' the pouring rain
Going where the weather suits my clothes
And skipping over the ocean like a stone
Backing off of the North East wind
Sailing on summer breeze
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Harry Nilsson died on January 15, 1994 at the age of 52, of heart failure, having suffered a severe heart attack on the Valentine's Day of the previous year.
Yes, but so did I and dozens of others. The hit version, which was part of the Midnight Cowboy sound track, was sung by the late, great Harry Nilsson. It was a cover of a song written and first released by Fred Neil.
Lime in the coconut was sung by Harry nilsson from the album Nilsson Schmilsson
Nilsson's "Best Friend" is on "Personal Best - The Harry Nilsson Anthology" under the title of "Girlfriend." endlessmoment@aol.com
I actually saw the movie "Midnight Cowboy" at the theater, and for the past 44 years I thought "Everybody's Talking" was done by Glen Campbell, and didn't even know who Nilsson was until years later. When a casual visit to the movies imdb page proved me wrong, it started an argument with my country fan wife. But After proving to her Nilsson did the movie version, she then claimed the popular radio version was Glen, covering the movie version. Made sense to me, but I proceeded to research it anyway. I went to a list of hit singles for Glen on a Wiki discography, it was never a hit single for Glen. I looked up Billboards hit singles for 1969, 17, Wichita Lineman Glen Campbell 71, Galveston Glen Campbell 84, Everybody's Talkin NilssonI then looked up Country hits for 1969, Everybody's Talkin was nowhere on the list. The only reference I could find tying Glen to this song, is he played it once on his TV show, on Season 4 Episode 5 October 19, 1971. He may have it on an album, since dozens did covers on it, but apparently the version that got all the radio play, was Nilsson. Interesting side note, Nilsson was more a writer then a performer, however he didn't write this song, Fred Neil did.