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Harry Nilsson - Secret Tracks (2009 Remasters Workshop Rmw 079)

Track listing:
  1. Without You (Piano Demo) 3:46
  2. Good For God (Piano Demo) 2:31
  3. Driving Along (Piano Demo) 0:57
  4. Gotta Get Up (Piano Demo) 1:53
  5. Coconut (Guitar Demo) 3:58
  6. Old Forgotten Soldier (Piano Demo) 3:11
  7. Down (Piano Demo) 4:01
  8. I Want You (Piano Demo) 1:49
  9. The Moonbeam Song (Piano Demo) 1:51
  10. Joy (Alternate Guitar Version) 1:57
  11. Joy (Alternate Piano Version) 0:59
  12. Yo Dodger Blue 2:31
  13. Camp Candy Theme (Version #1) 1:09
  14. I Yam What I Yam (Studio Demo) 2:27
  15. He Needs Me (Shelley Duval Studio Demo) 3:27
  16. Best Move (Alternate Mix) 3:52
  17. Cheek To Cheek (Vocal 1) 2:28
  18. Cheek To Cheek (Vocal 2) 2:29
  19. Feet (Previously Unreleased) 2:42
  20. She Drifted Away (Previously Unreleased) 3:44
  21. Molly (Previously Unreleased) 5:25
  22. A Place I Know (Demo) 5:49
  23. Unknown Title 3:59
  24. Gotta Get Up (Remake) 2:33
  25. Blackbird (Alternate Version) 2:32

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HARRY NILSSON
SECRET TRACKS

Lineage: Studio masters > DAT > Cassette > Adobe Audition > FLAC > you

Several of these tracks have been released as bonus tracks since I came into possession of them, but on the official releases they have been overdubbed and/or remixed and/or have had reverb added to them. This may be the debut of these recordings in unmodified form. They came to me as a tape transfer project some years back. There is no information about them... no dates, locations, nothing - although we can be sure that most everything here was recorded in Los Angeles, where Harry lived.

There is some fascinating stuff here. My favorites are "Feet," which could have been a single, and the demo for "Good For God," which could have been an amazing finished product instead of the embarrassing crap it turned out to be when Harry recut it several years later, after the Brandy Alexanders and blow had got the better of him.

In addition to work previously performed, I ran all the tracks through Audition 3 for phase correction. You will occasionally hear what sounds like slight DAT mistracking. It's not bad, and not enough to detract from the music.

Track listing:

01 Without You (piano demo)
02 Good For God (piano demo)
03 Driving Along (piano demo)
04 Gotta Get Up (piano demo)
05 Coconut (guitar demo)
06 Old Forgotten Soldier (piano demo)
07 Down (piano demo)
08 I Want You (piano demo)
09 The Moonbeam Song (piano demo)
10 Joy (alternate guitar version)
11 Joy (alternate piano version)
12 Yo Dodger Blue
13 Camp Candy Theme (version #1)
14 I Yam What I Yam (studio demo)
15 He Needs Me (Shelley Duval studio demo)
16 Best Move (alternate mix)
17 Cheek To Cheek (vocal 1)
18 Cheek To Cheek (vocal 2)
19 Feet (unreleased)
20 She Drifted Away (unreleased)
21 Molly (unreleased)
22 A Place I Know (demo)
23 Unknown title (unreleased)
24 Gotta Get Up (remake)
25 Blackbird (alternate version)

Artwork is included.

Please do not convert this material to a lossy format and redistribute it.

Enjoy!

Uploaded to Demonoid on December 20, 2009

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