{"id":973735,"date":"2019-11-25T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=918317"},"modified":"2019-11-25T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T20:50:09","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-harry-nilsson-yo-dodger-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-harry-nilsson-yo-dodger-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Harry Nilsson, \u2018Yo Dodger Blue\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tons of songs become baseball stadium classics, even if they don\u2019t start out that way: Neil Diamond\u2019s \u201cSweet Caroline,\u201d Gary Glitter\u2019s \u201cRock & Roll Part 2,\u201d the list goes on. Harry Nilsson<\/a> aimed to go straight to the ballgame with his own sports anthem, \u201cYo Dodger Blue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDad was devoted to this team ever since they were the Brooklyn Dodgers,\u201d his son Kiefo tweeted of the track<\/a>, which was included on the singer-songwriter\u2019s posthumous album, Losst and Founnd<\/em>, a collection of material Nilsson recorded at the end of his career. It\u2019s the first new music we\u2019ve heard from Nilsson since 1980\u2019s Flash Harry<\/em>; he died of a heart attack in 1994<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYo Dodger Blue\u201d is almost heartbreakingly straight-forward and pure: an unadulterated pump-up song that can only really serve one purpose: stoke the fires in the hearts\u2019 of Dodger fans. No audience required: The cheers of the crowd are right there in the track. It fits well within an album that refuses to take itself too seriously: The edge-of-sanity bedtime song \u201cLullabye,\u201d the stomping, extremely literal \u201cAnimal Farm,\u201d the hilariously tender \u201cWhat Does a Woman See in a Man.\u201d It\u2019s The Point!<\/em> soaked in liquor \u2014 all with a hefty sheen of delightfully Eighties production.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a sense of him pulling away from the world of pop,\u201d journalist Joe Levy told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> in a previous interview. Levy hosts a four-part podcast about Nilsson titled Final Sessions<\/em>. \u201cHe\u2019s climbed the mountain, and once you climb the mountain, you got two choices. You can decide there\u2019s a bigger mountain out there, or you can go down the other side. And I think Harry went down the other side. He didn\u2019t really care about making another album as perfect as Nilsson Schmilsson<\/em>. He indulged his sense of humor, he laid certain booby traps in his best songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Losst and Founnd<\/em> was produced by Mark Hudson (Ringo Starr, Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne) and features the likes of arranger Van Dyke Parks, drummer Jim Keltner, songwriter Jimmy Webb and Kiefo Nilsson on bass.<\/p>\n

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Tons of songs become baseball stadium classics, even if they don\u2019t start out that way: Neil Diamond\u2019s \u201cSweet Caroline,\u201d Gary Glitter\u2019s \u201cRock & Roll Part 2,\u201d the list goes on. Harry Nilsson aimed to go straight to the ballgame with his own sports anthem, \u201cYo Dodger Blue.\u201d \u201cDad was devoted to this team ever since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 02:12:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}