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Without Her (Harry Nilsson song)
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Wikipedia article
"'Without Her'" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, released on his 1967 album 'Pandemonium Shadow Show'.
Background
The song, a Baroque pop single, is played with cello and a countermelody performed on a flute, based on about a half dozen chords. One of Nilsson's first hits (although a minor one), it explains the sadness and melancholy of spending a day without the loved one, when the person has gone from you. Despite the melancholic theme, the song is described as a joyous song, too.
Other recorded versions
*Jack Jones recorded a version which served as the title track of a 1967 album.
*Also in 1967, the song was covered by singer Glen Campbell on his,Gentle on My Mind album.
*In 1968, the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears covered it on their debut album, Child Is Father to the Man.
*A version by Herb Alpert appeared on the 'Warm' album by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
*Brazilian Bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto recorded it in 1969, for her, I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do album.
*Scottish singer Lulu covered the song as "Without Him". Lulu's version was the B-side of her 1968 single 'I'm A Tiger'.
*Julie London also recorded the song as "Without Him" on the last album she ever released: "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" in 1969.
*Without Her' was also the only single released in 1968 by Anthony Browne.
* In Spanish the song was recorded by the Mexican singer Jos Jos, "Sin Ella" (Without Her), and is included in his first 1969 album "CUIDADO" in a Bossa Nova version.
References
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