harry nilsson RCA box set

Harry Nilsson, ‘The RCA Albums Collection’ Disc List:

1. ‘Pandemonium Shadow Show’ (Mono & Stereo) (1967)
2. ‘Aerial Ballet’ (Mono & Stereo) (1968)
3. ‘Harry’ (1969)
4. ‘Nilsson Sings Newman’ (1970)
5. ‘The Point!’ (1971)
6. ‘Aerial Pandemonium Ballet’ (1971)
7. ‘Nilsson Schmilsson’ (1971)
8. ‘Son of Schmilsson’ (1972)
9. ‘A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night’ (1973)
10. ‘Pussy Cats’ (1974)
11. ‘Duit on Mon Dei’ (1975)
12. ‘Sandman’ (1976)
13. ‘… That’s The Way It Is’ (1976)
14. ‘Knnillssonn’ (1977)
15. Nilsson Sessions 1967-1968
16. Nilsson Sessions 1968-1971
17. Nilsson Sessions 1971-1974

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29 unreleased tracks.

i hope they did a good job with the CDs cuz those albums aound amazing in their original form.

I hope they sell those last 3 discs separately.

one can hope...

there was talk about this on the nilsson thread. at the time you could preorder it cheap on amazon uk. like thirty-something pounds. not so anymore, i just looked.

those first three albums slay.

any track listing on the outtakes discs yet?

Apparently, mine's just been despatched!

Yeah, ordered it yonks ago thanks to that thread. "Son of Dracula" seems to have got missed out, but I've got the l.p. So I might burn a copy and add it myself..

Never heard discs 11-13, curious about those

argh gutted i didn't preorder it when it was cheap

omg

Remix albums or EPs like Aerial Pandemonium Ballet are commonplace nowadays, but who but Nilsson was putting out remix LPs in 1971? I'm hard pressed to think of an earlier one.

Yeah, mine arrived today.

It was £46 all told (with P&P)

I have been searching for and not finding (either online or on vinyl) the 4-channel/quadraphonic mix of Pussy Cats, which had different mixes and takes, including earlier recordings of the vocals on "Many Rivers to Cross" and "Don't Forget Me" made before he damaged his voice. I'm hoping these are on the box set somewhere.

Fraid not:

Some not-released songs that were on the Buddah/Buddha (whichever) CD issue, and some demos/radio spots.

By any chance, are there any different takes or alternate versions of Salmon Falls (off Duit on Mon Dei)?

mmmmmm cool

Got this today, loving the Knillsson bonus tracks - mostly Harry singing blues with Dr. John on the piano, but they also play a beautiful version of All I Think About Is You.

It was £46 all told (with P&P)

amazon uk says mine's in the mail; eagerly awaiting it. £41.51 all told.

LOL, I instantly delete any emails i get from Amazon so, on reading this thread, had to go back and retrieve from the deleted folder the email telling me I'd be getting my copy on Friday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfkHN_QxNcw

Harry Nilsson Stars...

got mine!

this is the first and most likely the last negative thing i will say: the packaging is flimsy. the individual discs are in slipcase replicas of the original album art, which is nice, but they're really really cheap slipcases. the liner notes are two cursory paragraphs about each album, nothing more. the individual song credits appear thorough.

i'll get back to you on the music in or around 2018, when i'm done taking it all in.

Yeah it's a bit of a cheapo package all in all but the music's what really matters I suppose.

That kind of goes with the territory re:contemporary "Complete Albums/Works/Recordings" sets.

Trade-off: I probably would not have bought it if it had been £80 or more, so flimsy package is fair enough (I call it 'compact'), and there's always the book (and wikip) for more detail..

(Now to CD-R my "Son of Dracula" soundtrack

.. Going to have to, "Daybreak" isn't on this box set at all!

... uhhhhhhh, it's a bonus on the "Son of Schmilsson" CD (you had me worried there, I must admit)

Ahh, thanks!

I did dig out the "Drac" soundtrack anyway, listened to the first 2 tracks last night. (It still has the 'iron-on' t-shirt decal in the envelope, I daresay that most of them did not get done)

His take on "Campo de Encino" is really really nice. I discovered it last week and I think I might have had that song on repeat for an hour straight.

Webb tells a great story about Nilsson and "Campo De Encino" on this:

http://open.spotify.com/track/0iK3sAkf8TMQo17VAwLAhp

Late to the party but this set is an embarrassment of riches. Slowly listening to it with the kids as I haul them around.

Halfway through it after a few months and I land on “Campo De Encino” and wow

Never heard the original, I had to look it up to know it was Jimmy Webb.

I’m almost done with Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter by Alyn Shipton which is a good easy read. Favorite Nilsson quote, during a moment of sobriety in his later years: “I knew there were two ten o’clocks, but I didn’t realize how nice the early one is.”