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Aerial Ballet is the third studio album by American musician Harry Nilsson, released in July 1968.

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Aerial Ballet
Studio album by Nilsson
Released	July 1968
Recorded	September 1967 - March 1968
Studio	RCA Victor's Music Center of the World, Hollywood, California
Genre	Pop, rock
Length	29:02
Label	RCA Victor
Producer	Rick Jarrard
Nilsson chronology
Pandemonium Shadow Show (1967) Aerial Ballet (1968) Skidoo (1968)
Singles from Aerial Ballet
"One" Released: 1968 "Everybody's Talkin'" Released: August 1969
1980 Pickwick reissue cover

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Essential Rock Discography	6/10[2]
Rolling Stone	(mixed)[3]

Overview

Aerial Ballet was Nilsson's second album for RCA Victor, and was titled after the highwire circus act of his grandparents. It consists almost entirely of songs written by him, including "One", which later became a Number Five hit for Three Dog Night.[4] The title of the album has been cited by Joey Kramer as the inspiration for Aerosmith's name and wings motif.[5]

The most familiar track from Aerial Ballet is its one cover song, Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin'". It was released as a single in North America in 1968, and reached the top forty in Canada—but initially flopped in the US. However, the song was subsequently selected for use in the Oscar-winning film Midnight Cowboy and became one of Nilsson's biggest hits as a performer, hitting the US top ten in 1969.[6] Another song, "Little Cowboy", later featured in The Courtship of Eddie's Father, was written by Nilsson's mother.^{[citation needed]}

The original opening number for Aerial Ballet was "Daddy's Song", but this track was removed (apparently without Nilsson's awareness) after the first copies were issued, because The Monkees had recorded a cover version to be featured in their film Head, and had paid $35,000 for exclusive rights to the song. Recent reissues restore "Daddy's Song" (with the Monkees' contract long expired) to its rightful place in the lineup.

When Nilsson visited the Beatles in London during 1968, John Lennon played Nilsson "Revolution" and selections from the (then-upcoming) White Album, and Nilsson, in turn, played to Lennon (who had spent thirty-six hours listening to Nilsson's previous album, Pandemonium Shadow Show) a demo cut of this record.

The album was reissued in 1980 on Pickwick (ACL-7075). It had a different cover featuring a biplane in a field, with the pilot standing in the foreground smoking a cigarette in a holder. It had a printed stamp in the upper right corner announcing "Grammy Award Winner, Best Contemporary Male Vocalist, Everybody's Talkin'". The song order was different, and both "Daddy's Song" and "Bath" were missing.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits per Allmusic:[7]

Production and technical personnel

• George Tipton – arrangements
• Rick Jarrard – producer
• Brian Christian – engineer
• Grover Helsley – engineer
• Allen Zentz – engineer
• Hank McGill – engineer
• Pat Ieraci – technician
• Dick Hendler – artwork, cover illustration

References

External links

• Aerial Ballet at The Harry Nilsson Web Pages
• Daddy's Song video with "The Courtship Of Eddie's Father" on YouTube

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Aerial Ballet è il terzo album discografico del cantautore statunitense Harry Nilsson (l'album è a nome di Nilsson), pubblicato dalla casa discografica RCA Victor Records nel luglio del 1968[6].

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