EVERYBODY'S TALKIN'
HARRY NILSSON
SONGWRITER:
FRED NEIL
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: AERIAL
BALLET
LABEL: RCA
VICTOR
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1969
"Everybody's Talkin'"is a songwritten and recorded by singer-songwriter Fred Neil Fred Neil in 1966. A version of the song performed by
Harry Nilsson became a hit in 1969, reaching No. 6 on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart and winning a Grammy Award after it was featured in the film Midnight Cowboy. The song, which describes the singer's desire to retreat
from other people to the ocean, is among the most famous works of both artists,
and has been covered by many other notable performers. The song later appeared
in the 1994 film Forrest Gump and is also on the film's soundtrack album. It also appeared in the comedy film Borat, on The Hangover
Part III soundtrack and in the English
television show Black Books.Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994), usually
credited as Nilsson, was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the
peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. His work is characterized by
pioneering overdub experiments, returns to the Great American Songbook, and
fusions of Caribbean sounds. A tenor with a three-and-a-half octave range,
Nilsson was one of the few major pop-rock recording artists of his era to
achieve significant commercial success without ever performing major public
concerts or undertaking regular tours.
Born in Brooklyn, Nilsson fled to Los Angeles as
a teenager and landed a job as a computer programmer at a bank. It was there
that he cultivated an interest in musical composition and close-harmony singing,
and was successful in having some of his songs recorded by various artists such
as the Monkees, and later, Three Dog Night, who had a No. 5 hit with his
song "One". In 1967, he debuted on RCA Victor with the LP Pandemonium
Shadow Show, followed with a variety of releases that include a
collaboration with Randy Newman (Nilsson Sings Newman, 1970) and the
original children's story The Point! (1971). After a brief period of
widely publicized, alcohol-fueled antics with John Lennon—the two collaborating
in 1974 for the album Pussy Cats—Nilsson left RCA, and his record output
subsequently diminished. In response to Lennon's 1980 death by shooting, he
took a hiatus from the music industry to campaign for gun control. For the rest
of his life, he recorded only on sporadic occasions. In 1994, Nilsson died of a
heart attack while in the midst of recording new material for a
since-unreleased comeback album.
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
Backing off of the North East wind
Sailing on summer breeze
And skipping over the ocean like a stone
Everybody's talking at me
I can't hear a word they're saying
Only the echoes of my mind
I won't let you leave my love behind
No, I won't let you leave
Won't… Ah-haaaa!
I won't let you leave my love behind.
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