Jelly Roll Morton may have penned "Whinin' By Blues", but no one nailed the whine quite like Harry Nilsson. What would have likely devolved into caterwaul in the hands of lesser vocalists, Nilsson employed as one of his signature vocal tics. Two best, and favorite, examples: the obvious - Nilsson's take on Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin" and the outro of "Rainmaker", co-written with William Martin in 1968, off Nilsson . . .
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