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3 unusual facts about Pandemonium Shadow Show


Derek Taylor

Taylor was also a catalyst in Harry Nilsson's musical career; hearing Nilsson's song "1941" on a car radio, he bought a case (twenty-five copies) of his album Pandemonium Shadow Show, sending copies to different industry people – including all four Beatles, who became enamored of his talent and invited Nilsson to London.

Pandemonium Shadow Show

Among the original songs by Nilsson, were one by Phil Spector (who had earlier co-written a song with Nilsson), Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, "River Deep - Mountain High", and two by The Beatles; She's Leaving Home and "You Can't Do That", the latter in an arrangement that quoted twenty other Beatles lyrics.

It was the first product of his three-year, $50,000 recording contract with RCA Records, and was recorded in their Hollywood studio.


Aerial Pandemonium Ballet

With the successes of Everybody's Talkin' and The Point! creating demand for Nilsson recordings, a reissue of his first two RCA Victor albums (Pandemonium Shadow Show and Aerial Ballet), then out of print, was considered.


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