"Without You" / "Gotta Get Up" Released: October 11, 1971
"Jump into the Fire" / "The Moonbeam Song" Released: March 1972
"Coconut" / "Down" Released: June 1972
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AllMusic
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Blender
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Christgau's Record Guide
A[4]
The Essential Rock Discography
8/10[6]
MusicHound
4/5[7]
Pitchfork
9.4/10[8]
Rolling Stone
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The Rolling Stone Album Guide
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The Village Voice
A−[5]
Nilsson Schmilsson is the seventh studio album by American singer Harry Nilsson, released by RCA Records on November 11, 1971. It was Nilsson's most commercially successful work, producing three of his best-known songs. Among these was the number 1 hit "Without You", written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of the group Badfinger. The album was the first of two Nilsson albums recorded in London and produced by Richard Perry.
"Jump into the Fire" and "Coconut", both written by Nilsson, also became hits. The album performed well at the 1973 Grammy Awards, earning a nomination for Album of the Year, while "Without You" won the Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. In 2006, Nilsson Schmilsson was ranked number 84 on Pitchfork's "Top 100 Albums of the 1970s".[11] The album was ranked #281 in the 2020 revision of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.[12]
^Nilsson Schmilsson (CD booklet: reproduced 1971 LP sleeve). Harry Nilsson. BMG Entertainment. 2000.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^ ab"Nilsson Schmilsson - Harry Nilsson | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved June 17, 2021.
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^Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: N". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X.
^Christgau, Robert (December 30, 1971). "Consumer Guide (22)". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
^Strong, Martin C. (2006). The Essential Rock Discography. Edinburgh, UK: Canongate. p. 758. ISBN 978-1-84195-827-9.
^Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel (eds) (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 815. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
^Beta, Andy (February 11, 2004). "Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Schmilsson | Album Reviews". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved October 22, 2011.
^[2] Archived December 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^Brackett, Nathan; with Hoard, Christian (eds) (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th edn). New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. p. 586. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
^"Top 100 Albums of the 1970s" from Pitchfork
^"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rollingstone.com. September 22, 2020. Retrieved June 17, 2021.
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