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"Without Her" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, released on his 1967 album Pandemonium Shadow Show.[1]

"Without Her"
Single by Harry Nilsson
from the album Pandemonium Shadow Show
B-side	"Cuddly Toy"
Released	1967 (1967)
Recorded	1966 (1966)
Genre	Baroque pop
Length	2:18
Label	RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)	Harry Nilsson
Producer(s)	Rick Jarrard
Harry Nilsson singles chronology
"You Can't Do That" (1967) "Without Her" (1967) "One" (1968)

Background

The song, a Baroque pop single, is played with cello and a countermelody performed on a flute, based on about a half dozen chords. One of Nilsson's first hits (although a minor one), it explains the sadness and melancholy of spending a day without the loved one, when the person has gone from you. Despite the melancholic theme, the song is described as a joyous song, too.

Other recorded versions

• Jack Jones recorded a version which served as the title track of a 1967 album.
• Also in 1967, the song was covered by singer Glen Campbell on his,Gentle on My Mind album.[2]
• In 1968, the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears covered it on their debut album, Child Is Father to the Man. [3]
• A version by Herb Alpert appeared on the Warm album by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.[4]
• Brazilian Bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto recorded it in 1969, for her, I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do album.[5]
• Scottish singer Lulu covered the song as "Without Him". Lulu's version was the B-side of her 1968 single 'I'm A Tiger'.
• Julie London also recorded the song as "Without Him" on the last album she ever released: "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" in 1969.[6]
• Without Her' was also the only single released in 1968 by Anthony Browne.
• In Spanish the song was recorded by the Mexican singer José José, "Sin Ella" (Without Her), and is included in his first 1969 album "CUIDADO" in a Bossa Nova version.

References

External links

• http://www.allmusic.com/song/without-her-mt0011361024
• http://www.discogs.com/artist/152685-Harry-Nilsson
• http://www.discogs.com/Harry-Nilsson-Pandemonium-Shadow-Show/master/96883

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