Have you heard the Nilsson album, "Duit On Mon Dei"?
 

I've never heard this album. Is it any good? Can you describe it? Which cd do you have and how does it sound?

Thx!

I have the Japanese K2 version (gray CD label background). It sounds pretty good and has a bonus track, a demo of "Turn Out the Light." You do want to avoid the recent twofer with DOMD and SANDMAN...horrid sound.

I like album a lot, but then I love all things Nilsson! The Lp followed PUSSYCATS. Harry's original title for the album was GOD'S GREATEST HITS; I suspect RCA nixed that! It has a tropical/marimba/steel drum kind of sound on many tracks. There are some classic Harry songs here: "Down By the Sea", "Salmon Falls" and the immortal "Good For God." The lyrics are sharp and funny and Ringo plays drums on a couple of tracks. If you like Nilsson you'll love this album, what else can I say?

BTW Prix this week is the one-year anniversary of getting my restored Fisher from you up in Monterey...what pleasure this receiver has given me since then!

Latter Nilsson, i.e., post Pussycats, is different than earlier Nilsson. The tunes are not as tight, but Nilsson seems to be having a good time. Nilsson's voice is a bit more ragged as well. That said, I'm a big fan of these letter albums, and probably have played them more since I discovered Nilsson than I do his early works. It may be heresy, but I'd prefer to hear Sandman or Duit than I would Nilsson Schmillson for example. The K2 Japanese import of "Harry" is in my car stereo now, and I'm looking forward to comparing it to the DCC.

You're not alone, friend! :righton:

I like all his albums, for me he's one of those artists where if you like one album, you'll like all the rest. It's not like he suddenly turns around and makes and album of kazoo music, or field recordings of bleating sheep, he has a consistent sound/attitude/approach. As someone noted, the later ones get a little more loose and rough-around-the-edges (influenced no doubt by his hard-living), but it's not a bad thing.

I've got it on vinyl and it's my favourite Nilsson album.
Especially 'Salmon Falls' or as a girlfriend used to say 'Simon falls'.

"Pussycats" is probably my favorite Nilsson album aside from "The Point". That cover of "Many Rivers To Cross" is just absolutely KILLER. It doesn't get any better than that.

I like all of his work as well, especially his earlier work. But it breaks my heart to hear his once angel-like voice turning so rough on the later albums.

Here's my cool "Pussycats" lp story:

A couple years ago I was out going to garage sales. At one house I asked the customary "do you have any records?" question and they led me round back to a spider web and dust infested shed where there were hundreds of records in storage. One lp in particular intrigued me, so I paid the 25 cents they were asking for it and brought it home. The reason I purchased it is because inside the blank white jacket was a white label album with the words "Harry Nilsson- Pussycats Test Pressing" written in pencil.:thumbsup:

Interesting to note that the track to "Many Rivers to Cross" was re-used by John Lennon for the song MIND GAMES!! :eek:

When I play Duit On Mon Dei all I hear is squandered talent, a beautiful voice ruined by cigarettes and alcohol -- not to mention the irreparable damage he did to his larynx during the making of Pussycats. Truly depressing.

Yikes! You might give a listen to 1977's KNNILLSSONN...a miraculous recovery, if you ask me! :D

Yes, after a string of wasteful and wasted albums (IMHO), Harry finally came back with his last RCA album, Knnillssonn...Unfortunately, it was too late. His audience had moved on and RCA wasn't too interested in promoting it...

His voice...Well, he blew his voice out during the Pussycats sessions, and it wasn't ever coming back. It's listenable on Knnillssonn, but it wasn't ever going to be the fine instrument it once was, sadly.

My personal view is that all Nilsson albums up through A Touch of Schmilsson in the Night are musts...then I'd skip all the way to Knnillssonn...

Unfortunately, Knnillssonn was apparently a fluke. The next (and last) Nilsson album, Flash Harry, is pretty dismal.

I wonder what the as-yet unreleased material Harry recorded just before his death sounds like. Supposedly he had finished enough tracks for an album...

Kwad

I don't agree with you re: Flash Harry, and wish that this most elusive of Harry recordings would finally enter the CD age. Given that the Japanese have seen fit to release everything else (even Son of Dracula) on CD, why hasn't this record ever come out on CD? I wonder if his Estate hates the recording as much as you do. As far as I know, it was never released in the U.S. at all.

Yeah, I have Knnillssonn. I bought it on vinyl when it came out and thought enough of it to pick up the Japanese CD reissue two decades later. Good material, good production. It stands on its own merits, but suffers when placed alongside Harry's 1967-72 output.

Yeah, I have Knnillssonn. I bought it on vinyl when it came out and thought enough of it to pick up the Japanese CD reissue two decades later. Good material, good production. It stands on its own merits, but suffers when placed alongside Harry's 1967-72 output.

I agree, Knillsson is a better album than either Duit or Sandman, but that's not to say those both aren't worthy albums. I still like Pussycats, though!

Flash Harry came out on Mercury, which explains why it didn't get reissued with the rest of Harry's catalogue.

There are basically three Nilsson collections that aren't under RCA (BMG)'s control:

1) The Tower material that preceeded his first RCA album.
2) Flash Harry (Mercury, now Universal)
3) The Popeye soundtrack (originally Boardwalk, not sure who who controls it now; others singing Nilsson's songs. He supposedly hated it...)

This doesn't include things like the anti-handgun 45 and whatnot...

I was surprised that Flash Harry didn't get a release in the US...But it wouldn't have sold squat anyway. I mean, it was further down the uninterested drunken games road that had lead him to commercial hell in the first place. So I am sure that Mercury figured they'd just cut their losses...

Kwad

Don't forget the Presence of Christmas record (Harry's roughest vocals IMO), his Yoko Ono covers, and his work on the Paris soundtrack.

I wonder if the Mercury stuff will ever revert back to Harry's estate? Do you imagine they own the unreleased Brown Robe recordings never released after his death?

BTW, while the Popeye soundtrack probably does not merit a CD release, Harry's demos of this material are "out there" and are worth a listen.

Right...the string part.

"Duit" is one of my favorite Nilsson LPs. Has a very steel drum-sound. He's having a lot of fun on this record - great tunes and his usual, hilarious far-out lyrics.

Why wasn't "Kojak Columbo" a #1?

JEFF!

John Lennon reused the "Many Rivers to Cross" string arrangement on "#9 Dream," not "Mind Games."

The rights to "Flash Harry" are owned by Harry's family.

That's right. Duh. I was tricked.:D