Mad Cat Theatre Company continues its popular concert series MAD CAT LIVE! with their presentation of Harry Nilsson’s THE POINT, an all ages concert about a boy named Oblio and his dog Arrow. The Mad Cat Live! Band features professional musicians and performers who have graduated from such prestigious schools as University of Miami School of Music and Berklee College of Music. Mad Cat Live! first began with the popular presentation of Paul & Linda McCartney’s album RAM in August earlier this year. It featured Mad Cat Live! band members Erik Fabregat, Jim Camacho, Steph Taylor, Darren Bruck, Brian Sayre, and Matt Corey.
Mad Cat Live Band to Present Harry Nilsson’s THE POINT
A Grail In The Collection – New Nilsson Songs
It took quite a bit of searching, pestering dealers, making myself a nuisance to other collectors and generally praying to the collecting gods but happily a grail of a Nilsson record has finally found its way into my collection.
In 1967 Perry Botkin and Gil Garfield’s publishing company, Rock Music Co. released a demo LP to promote a hot new rising star, Mr. Harry Nilsson. Not many copies of New Nilsson Songs were pressed and while its purpose was clearly to alert key insiders to Harry’s talents strangely there are tracks that don’t feature Nilsson as either singer or composer.
Collectors take note, there was no proper jacket to accompany this pressing. Instead, a plain white inner sleeve with, ‘LEAD SHEETS ON REQUEST’ stamped on both sides was used. I’ve never seen a copy of these lead sheets but if they’re out there I hope to track them down one day even if it’s just to feature here on the site.
Harry Nilsson – The Pride Of RCA
RCA promo ad found in an issue of Billboard Magazine.
A Rare Portuguese Harry Nilsson Pressing
This is the sort of find I love. During one of my regular internet hunts I was scrolling through a long list of the usual suspects, sleeves I’ve seen a hundred times before when all of a sudden … hold on, what’s this?
Harry Nilsson – Remember (Christmas) / The Lottery Song.
I knew I’d never come across this one before so I immediately snapped it up. The sleeve itself was in pretty rough condition (yes, I often clean up my scans in Photoshop to ensure I’m presenting the best possible images) but the seller was asking almost nothing for it and if you’ve been collecting for a while you learn to grab even a beat up copy of something you’ve never seen before because you never know when you might see another.
Of course it’s entirely possible there are thousands of these floating around Portugal or Angola (where it seems it was ‘edited’) but as I say, I’d not seen it before and after emailing a couple of other Nilsson collectors, they too confirmed this was new to them as well. If anyone out there has a Minty copy they’re looking to part with, I know of a good home.