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Harry Nilsson - Harry Does Skip (1970)

Track listing:
  1. Old Forgotten Soldier 1:55
  2. Think About Your Troubles 2:39
  3. Poli High 2:42
  4. Roses Are Blooming 1:48
  5. Old Forgotten Soldier 1:54
  6. conversation 0:15
  7. Think About Your Troubles 2:35
  8. conversation 2:45
  9. Poli High 2:38
  10. conversation 14:35
  11. conversation 0:15
  12. Roses Are Blooming 0:58
  13. conversation 1:39
  14. conversation 6:21
  15. conversation 34:07

Notes

KRHM-FM
pre-FM sourced
Los Angeles, CA
The Skip Weshner Show

This set is fascinating and significant in that the only 4 songs Harry performs live in the studio (the songs from LP have been cut out) had NOT yet been released on LP at the time. Unfortunately, Skip Weshner missed a good opportunity to follow up on these new songs. Although, to his credit, Skip does ask Harry if he ever considered "writing a whole show," presumably meaning a theme show. One has to wonder if that was the spark that resulted in The Point. I suppose we will never know.

Note 1: During the interview, Skip played 4 songs from Nilsson's albums which have been cut out of this.

Note 2: The original placed edited versions of all the songs up front, as usual, including an extended version of the lovely and rare Doc Williams' song “Roses Are Blooming,” which Harry never recorded. All performed songs are then included within the interview in their original, unedited context.

Note 3: Harry performs several new, unrecorded songs (“Old Forgotten Soldier”, “Think About Your Troubles,” “Poli High,” “Roses Are Blooming”) in the studio to an, apparently, oblivious Skip Weshner who is focusing more on the “Harry” and “Nilsson Sings Newman” albums and on sociopolitical commentary.

Note 4: This interview was obviously recorded after the release of “Nilsson Sings Newman” but before “The Point.” Of the 4 songs Harry performed live in the studio, two were from “The Point” which would be released later in 1970; one wouldn't see release until 1974’s “Pussy Cats”; and the other was never recorded and released on an official Harry Nilsson album.

Note 5: The last conversation track is quite long, but is cut abruptly. I presume that the tape ran out.