After the mega success of Nilsson Schmilsson and Without You. Harry Nilsson embarked on his lost weekend (four to five years) with John Lennon, Keith Moon and Ringo Starr. He disappointed his label RCA by almost deliberately making anti career moves. While he called the follow up album Son of Schmilsson it lacked the humour of the earlier album and lacked an obvious hit. His next album was A Little Touch of Schmilsson in The Night was a seemingly even more move away from his target market. It is an album of songs from "The Great American Songbook" with light orchestral backing. Now that everyone has done that (Robbie Williams, Lady Gaga and, yawn, Rod Stewart it does not seem the commercial suicide that it was then.
You can pick this up for $4-$5 in second hand record shops and it is well worth doing. The arrangements sound like they could be by Nelson Riddle or George Jenkins and the voice is in top condition. So fork out the cash and enjoy Harry's versions of Me and My Gal, It Had to Be You and Makin' Whoopee
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