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.