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Nilsson - The Point! album

Nilsson - The Point! album

  • Performer: Nilsson
  • Genre: Rock / Audiobooks and files
  • Title: The Point!
  • Released: 1991
  • Style: Pop Rock
  • Country: US
  • MP3 version size: 1114 mb
  • FLAC version size: 1552 mb
  • Other: MIDI DMF WAV AHX ADX ASF MP4
  • Rating: 4.8
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Description

The Point! is a fable that tells the story of a boy named Oblio, the only round-headed person in the Pointed Village, where by law everyone and everything.

The Point! is the sixth studio album by Nilsson. It was accompanied by an animated film adaptation directed by Fred Wolf, which aired a few weeks after the album’s release. The Point! is a fable that tells the story of a boy named Oblio, the only round-headed person in the Pointed Village, where by law everyone and everything must have a point. Nilsson explained his inspiration for The Point!: I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point

Nilsson: The Life Of A Singer-Songwriter. In this first ever full-length biography, author Alyn Shipton traces Harry Nilsson’s life from his Brooklyn childhood to his Los Angeles adolescence and his gradual emergence as a uniquely talented singer-songwriter. With interviews from friends, family, and associates, and material drawn from an unfinished autobiography, Shipton probes beneath the enigma to discover the real Harry Nilsson. The profound musical gifts of Harry Nilsson are on full display in THE ESSENTIAL NILSSON.

Nilsson's next album, Harry (1969), was his first to hit the charts, and also provided a Top 40 single with "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City" (written as a contender for the theme to Midnight Cowboy), used in the Sophia Loren movie La Mortadella (1971) (US title: Lady Liberty). While the album still presented Nilsson as primarily a songwriter, his astute choice of cover material included, this time, a song by then-little-known composer Randy Newman, "Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear". Nilsson's next project was an animated film, The Point!, created with animation director Fred Wolf, and broadcast on ABC television on February 2, 1971, as an "ABC Movie of the Week"

The Point! is the soundtrack to a cartoon feature originally aired on ABC TV in 1971. Especially at this stage of his career, Harry Nilsson was uniquely suited for writing and recording children's music, given his sweet melodicism and love of whimsy. As it happens, The Point! worked out better than anyone could have expected, not just because 'Everything's Got 'Em,' 'Me and My Arrow,' 'Think About Your Troubles,' and 'Are You Sleeping?' are songs strong enough to have been on a proper Nilsson record.

All the great songs and lyrics from the "Harry Nilsson’s The Point" album ont he Web's largest and most authoritative lyrics resource. Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994) was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. He is known for the hit singles "Everybody's Talkin'" (1969), "Without You. ore . Year: 1977.

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The Point! is the soundtrack of Harry Nilsson's animated TV special. The Point! aired on ABC TV in early 1971. The TV program was narrated by Dustin Hoffman. The album is narrated by Harry. The album reached during a 32-week stay on the charts. The needlepoint on the cover is by Kathy Torrence. The album design is by Dean Torrence (of Jan and Dean). I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point.

Tracklist

A1 Everything's Got 'Em 2:28
A2 The Town (Narration) 1:25
A3 Me And My Arrow 2:02
A4 The Game (Narration) 2:00
A5 Poli High 2:54
A6 The Trial And Banishment (Narration) 2:00
A7 Think About Your Troubles 2:45
A8 Thursday (Why I Did Not Go To Work Today) 4:07
B1 Blanket For A Sail 2:35
B2 The Pointed Man (Narration) 2:55
B3 Life Line 2:32
B4 The Birds (Narration) 2:06
B5 P.O.V. Waltz 2:20
B6 The Clearing In The Woods (Narration) 2:06
B7 Are You Sleeping? 3:02
B8 Oblio's Return (Narration) 2:20

Companies, etc.

  • Licensed From – BMG – CED 340

Credits

  • Arranged By, Conductor – George Tipton
  • Narrator, Songwriter, Vocals, Producer – Harry Nilsson

Notes

Manufactured in England

Published 1970 BMG Music except side 1 track 8 published 1975, side 2 track 1 published 1977

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 5 014757 153402

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
LSP-4417 Nilsson* The Point! ‎(LP, Album, Ind) RCA Victor LSP-4417 US 1971
PK-1623 Nilsson* The Point! ‎(Cass, Album) RCA Victor PK-1623 US 1971
P8S 1623 Nilsson* The Point! ‎(8-Trk, Album) RCA, RCA Victor P8S 1623 US 1971
LSPX-1003 Nilsson* The Point! ‎(LP, Album) RCA Victor LSPX-1003 Australia 1971
GET-51298, 88691975271 Nilsson* The Point! ‎(LP, Album, RE, RM, Gat) Get On Down, Sony Music Commercial Music Group GET-51298, 88691975271 US 2012

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