![]() ![]() Nilsson's friend Stanley Dorfman, who was present watching the album recording in progress, suggested they substitute “Harry” for “Schmilsson”, referring to Nilsson's colloquial nickname from his previous two albums, Nilsson Schmilsson (1971) and Son of Schmilsson (1972). The title came about when Taylor remembered the quote as the album was being recorded at Wembley Studios. The title is an allusion to Shakespeare's Henry V, Act 4, in which the Chorus refers to Henry's nocturnal visit to his troops as "Behold, as may unworthiness define, a little touch of Harry in the night". That incredible, flexible, rubber-band-like voice - I just barley snuck in that album under the gun." Packaging and title I told both Derek and Gordon, this is the last of it. I was hoping to get hoarse like Ray Charles, because that choir-boy thing is gone. Nilsson himself was exceedingly happy with the album, calling it ".God-like, the best album I've ever been associated with." He also believed he made Touch at the last possible time his voice was suitable for such a project, saying in a 1988 interview with Bruce Jenkins ".Hell, I'm a baritone now. " It Had to Be You" features a joke ending written by original songwriter Gus Kahn that finishes with the unusual lyrics "It had to be me/ Unlucky me/ It had to be you." The lyrics were sometimes altered from the most popular versions with alternate lyrics or occasional additions, changes that are referred to in the original liner notes. The Gordon Jenkins arrangements incorporate interpolations of other standards in the collection as transitions between songs. He would have no involvement in the project. He had the rest of his life to do an album like that, when it would have been more meaningful.". He recalled years later: "The timing couldn't have been worse for him to do a god-damned standards album. ![]() ![]() Richard Perry, producer of Nilsson's two previous projects ( Nilsson Schmilsson and Son of Schmilsson), was unenthusiastic about the singer's plans for a traditional pop album, especially given the indifferent critical and commercial reception of the latter compared to the success of the former. The album came about from a game Nilsson and Taylor would play, challenging each other to identify the composers of obscure songs. This album is notable in being a standards album produced a decade before such works started to become popular again. The album was arranged by Frank Sinatra's arranger Gordon Jenkins, and produced by Derek Taylor. "" As Time Goes By" / "Lullaby in Ragtime""Ī Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night is a 1973 album of classic 20th-century standards sung by American singer Harry Nilsson. ![]()
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