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Harry Nilsson - Knnillssonn (1977) (vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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Knnillssonn is the fourteenth studio album by the American musician Harry Nilsson, released in 1977. Knnillssonn was Nilsson's final album for RCA Records. 
It was his personal favorite while recording it, as his voice had recovered from the damage done during the 1974 Pussy Cats sessions; his songs were more developed and his singing was in top form. 
RCA Records management agreed and had prepared to promote Knnillssonn heavily as his comeback album. Nilsson's last several albums had been released with little advance notice and promotion and were mostly overlooked by the public. 

Abandoning the very idea of a mainstream pop album is just the beginning of his conceptual coup here with Knnillssonn. 
Recording almost all of the sounds with keyboards and guitars, Nilsson also decided to drive the guitars into the background. 
In some ways, this may make it similar to A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night, but instead of being a standards record, this is all new material, written in a classical pop style and delivered in a slightly modernistic fashion. 
The result is an album that's out of step with its time and with the era's music in general. 
With its old-fashioned pop sensibility and weirdly out of sync production, plus Nilsson's trademark clever songsmithery and impish humor, Knnillssonn is a pop album like no other. 
It has his best set of songs in many a year, and the production is fascinating, yet at times it sounds like he's trying a little too hard. Still, there are brilliant moments, whether it's a tune as seductive as "All I Think About Is You" or the Agatha Christie murder mystery salute "Who Done It?" 
For all the cultists who struggled with, and at times embraced, his years of uneven records, this is their reward: an album that may only appeal to a small audience, but that satisfies their every desire about what an album from their favorite artist should be. 

Shortly after the release of Knnillssonn, Elvis Presley died unexpectedly on August 16, 1977, at age 42; Presley and Nilsson were both RCA recording artists and the sudden death of Elvis resulted in a complete overhaul of RCA's forthcoming release schedules and promotion plans. 
Immediately following Presley's death, demand for his recordings was so high, stores could not keep them in stock. 
Money and resources allotted to Knnillssonn and other new RCA releases was all redirected to promoting Presley's recently issued final album Moody Blue, as well as developing future Presley releases of unissued material, reissues and the promotion and repressing of Presley's extensive back catalog.

Klaus Voormann, billed on the album as Mara Gibb, was the guest mystery singer on "Perfect Day". The St. Paul's Cathedral Choir Boys choir is also on this track in addition to "All I Think About Is You".


Side one
1.  All I Think About Is You - 4:04
2.  I Never Thought I’d Get This Lonely - 5:06
3.  Who Done It? - 5:20
4.  Lean on Me - 2:51
5.  Goin’ Down - 3:11

Side two
1.  Old Bones - 2:58
2. Sweet Surrender - 4:42
3.  Blanket for a Sail - 2:33
4.  Laughin’ Man - 2:56
5.  Perfect Day - 3:54





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Credits

A Nilsson House Production
Recorded at Audio International, London
Mixed at Air Studios, London
Made in Holland by Inelco Nederland bv from master recordings owned or controlled by RCA Records.
Printed in Holland
 

Notes
Release:  1977
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Pop
Label: RCA
Catalog#  PL-12276

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)  Gatefold

Prijs: €10,00

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