Fred Neil wrote "Everybody's Talkin'" in five minutes at the end of a recording session in 1966 and recorded it immediately in a single take so he could take off and go back home to Miami. It's a great song and an unlikely standard that he probably never thought much of. It made him millions though after it was used in John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy (sung by Harry Nilsson) and was subsequently covered by at least a hundred other artists. Fred Neil spent the last 25 years of his life in Florida.
Ratso wasn't so lucky.
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"Everybody's Talkin'" mp3
by Fred Neil, 1966.
available on Fred Neil
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"Everybody's Talkin'" mp3
by Harry Nilsson, 1968.
available on Greatest Hits
"Everybody's Talkin'" mp3
by Bill Withers, 1971.
available on Just As I Am
"Everybody's Talkin'" mp3
by The Meat Puppets, 1982
available on Meat Puppets
"Everybody's Talkin'" mp3
by Luna, 1998.
available on Lunafied
"Everybody's Talkin'" mp3
by Bobby Bare, 2005.
available on The Moon Was Blue
"Everybody's Talkin'" mp3
by Madeleine Peyroux, 2006.
available on Half The Perfect World
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by Fred Neil, 1965.
available on Bleecker & MacDougal
"Little Bit Of Rain" mp3
by Fred Neil, 1965.
available on Bleecker & MacDougal
"You Don't Miss Your Water" mp3
by Fred Neil and Gram Parsons, 1971(?)
available on The Many Sides of Fred Neil
more on Fred Neil in the current issue of The Oxford American
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everybody's talking at me except you listeners, comments are welcome and encouraged below.
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