Harry Nilsson Version
| "Everybody's Talkin'" | ||||
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| Single by Nilsson | ||||
| from the album Aerial Ballet | ||||
| B-side | "Rainmaker" | |||
| Released | August 1968 (withdrawn) August 1969 |
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| Genre | "Chamber pop" (retrospective term), folk | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Writer(s) | Fred Neil | |||
| Producer | Rick Jarrard | |||
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Nilsson was searching for a potentially successful song when Rick Jarrard played the track for him, and he decided to release it on his 1968 album Aerial Ballet. When Derek Taylor recommended Nilsson for the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack to director John Schlesinger, Schlesinger selected "Everybody's Talkin'", preferring the cover to the song Nilsson proposed, "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City".
The song was used as the theme song for the movie and became closely identified with it; Nilsson's cover is also known as "Everybody's Talkin' (Theme from Midnight Cowboy)". William J. Mann in his biography of Schlesinger noted that "one cannot imagine Midnight Cowboy now without 'Everybody's Talkin''".
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