Favorite Songs From Movies Top Ten: Everybody’s Talkin’ (#7)

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The sun is out and the wind is blowing. Not as bad as it was a few weeks ago when nearly 100,000 lost power in the city, and certainly not bad enough to make it feel cold. I’ll feel good with this next song on my list of favorites that were in movies and didn’t get an Oscar nomination. #7: Everybody’s Talkin’ - Harry Nilsson Hey, didn’t I just use him in the TV song countdown last month? Why, yes! Thanks for noticing! Harry Nilsson was very busy in the late 60s, writing the song “One” that became a big Three Dog Night hit, appearing in TV shows (he was in an episode of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir), putting songs in soundtracks (like this one), and becoming a FOTB (Friend Of The Beatles). Oh, he was busy putting limes in coconuts, too. There’s a Nilsson song on my 100 favorites list…not this song, though. This is probably Harry’s best-known recording…and, like another Nilsson hit (“Without You”), Harry didn’t write it. This goes back to folk singer/songwriter Fred Neil, who wrote and recorded it in 1966. It became famous when Nilsson recorded it in 1968. The song was included in the movie Midnight Cowboy (the only X-rated movie to ever win “best picture”…and if you’re wondering, it was rated X for the subject matter [homosexual prostitution], not for explicit sex), which made it even more popular. Oh, and some trivia: Warren Zevon’s first gold album was NOT hit 1978 album Excitable Boy but rather the soundtrack to Midnight Cowboy. He wrote one of the songs on the soundtrack (“She Quit Me”). All of that has very little to do with how good this song is, or how enduring it is. Everybody’s Talkin’ Written by Fred Neil Recorded by Harry Nilsson From Midnight Cowboy, 1969 Through the pourin’ rain: