Nilsson - Nevertheless

The Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles was fifteen years ago today. There's an urban legend that the body of singer Harry Nilsson, in a funeral home awaiting his burial, was swallowed by the earth, and therefore the service was conducted with an empty casket. Apparently it's only an urban legend, but the idea might have pleased Nilsson, who was a total wacko incongruously blessed with a sweet voice. Here's proof of the latter assertion. It's from his 1973 collection of Tin Pan Alley standards, which anticipated Ronstadt et al.'s similar efforts by a decade. The arrangement is by old pro Gordon Jenkins.