{"id":498,"date":"2019-02-20T16:08:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T00:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/?page_id=498"},"modified":"2019-02-20T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T00:08:12","slug":"harry-nilsson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/harry-nilsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Nilsson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My &#8220;Harry Nilsson&#8221; YouTube playlist. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Nilsson\">Harry Edward Nilsson III<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(June 15, 1941 \u2013 January 15, 1994), usually credited as\u00a0<strong>Nilsson<\/strong>, was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. His work is characterized by pioneering vocal\u00a0<a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Overdub\">overdub<\/a>\u00a0experiments, returns to the\u00a0<a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_American_Songbook\">Great American Songbook<\/a>, and fusions of\u00a0<a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caribbean_music\">Caribbean sounds<\/a>. A\u00a0<a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tenor\">tenor<\/a>\u00a0with 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.<sup><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Nilsson#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShipton2013xi,_290%E2%80%93291-2\">[<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The craft of his songs and the defiant attitude he projected remains a touchstone for later generations of\u00a0<a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indie_rock\">indie rock<\/a>\u00a0musicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[embedyt] https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed?listType=playlist&amp;list=PLh3A0cnoWYsytqDvDHE5S_RXVFPAqZXIy&amp;v=dyfnqEADpSY&amp;layout=gallery[\/embedyt]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;Harry Nilsson&#8221; YouTube playlist. Harry Edward Nilsson III\u00a0(June 15, 1941 \u2013 January 15, 1994), usually credited as\u00a0Nilsson, was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/498\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}