Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Harry Nilsson - Popeye (The Original Demotapes)


The live action version of Popeye sees the light in 1980. It's the first movie for Robin Williams. Although Robin is very populair in 1980 (Mork) nobody went to the theater to watch the movie. The original soundtrack (upload later...) isn't a succes either. Not that odd if you keep in mind that the songs were sung by the actors Robin Williams, Shelly Duval en Paul L Smith and not by their writer Harry Nilsson.
Harry did record demosongs for the actors and those can be found on this bootlegalbum. This album is quite good and could have made a good Nilsson album.

Tracks:
01. I Yam What I Yam   02. He Needs Me   03. Swee' Pea's Lullaby   04. Din' We   05. Sweethaven   06. Blow Me Down   07. Sailin'   08. It's Not Easy Being Me   09. Everyone's Got To Eat   10. I'm Mean   11. Kids   12. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man   13. Everything Is Food   14. He Needs Me (Spanish)   15. I Yam What I Yam (instr.)

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous30 June, 2009

    This is such a treasure to find. Thanks so much for posting it.

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  2. If possible could you re-up the link for this gem. Thanks

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  3. http://www.filefactory.com/file/5r02tcm79wwj/n/PopeyeDemo_tar_gz

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  4. Thanks n8w8 (nightwatch) for the new links.Very nice of you.

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