4. Rich Kimball Discusses Nilsson, Nilsson Schmilsson

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Rich Kimball, host of Downtown on Zoom Radio, brought his extensive knowledge of Harry Nilsson and of music in general to this episode of You, Me and An Album. We discussed Nilsson’s best-known and most successful album, Nilsson Schmilsson, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200 chart subsequent to its late 1971 release.

Find Rich on Twitter: @DowntownRichK

Downtown with Rich Kimball website: http://www.downtownwithrichkimball.com/

Here’s a link to the song that Alice Cooper performed for Zak Nilsson on Coffee Talk with ADIKA Live (discussed at 9:18): https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/alice-cooper-harry-nilsson-son-zak-song-21507/

CORRECTION: I stated that Jump Into The Fire ends with a fadeout of the drum solo, but I should have said it ends with a fadeout of a two-minute instrumental section that follows the drum solo.

IRONY ALERT: I am aware that I went out of my way to not mention IBM by name in reference to their ad that used Jump Into The Fire, but then later in this episode, I dropped a reference to Google Calendar.

1:00 Rich joins the show

2:21 How Rich got into radio and TV

4:49 Why Rich chose Nilsson Schmilsson as his album to discuss

9:18 Alice Cooper’s song for Zak Nilsson

10:30 Rich’s favorite Nilsson Schmilsson tracks

15:00 What Rich likes about the album as a whole

16:59 Al’s beef with the track sequencing

18:15 The similarities between Nilsson Schmilsson and Pretzel Logic

21:10 Al’s initial observations

Track-by-track breakdown:

25:05 Gotta Get Up

26:32 Driving Along

28:17 Early In The Morning

30:52 The Moonbeam Song

33:06 Down

35:19 Without You

41:31 Coconut

42:55 Al’s post-recording thoughts about Coconut

43:41 Let The Good Times Roll

45:16 Jump Into The Fire

48:51 I’ll Never Leave You

50:31 Is Nilsson Schmilsson Rich’s favorite Nilsson album?

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