Everybody’s Talkin’, by Harry Nilsson
…but, as noted yesterday, originally by Fred Neil, who I had never heard of until recently.
I know I heard this song as a kid on the radio long before ever coming within 30 yards of anything to do with Midnight Cowboy, but Midnight Cowboy was also an early feature of film school in New York, looking back just a few years in time to see the city seedier. If my freshman year of college was 25 years after that movie, then it’s now been more than 25 years since my freshman year.
It’s not a song about New York, though, it’s a song about leaving New York. Rizzo on the bus to Miami, when I preferred traveling in the opposite direction. Until I left New York, too.
Got this one done before dinner so I could stretch out my voice a little, but stick around through the first couple minutes to watch me not hit the high note at all and mess around a little. One take, though, with a little bit of extra guitar, vocals, and the requisite weird software keyboard basic bassline.
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