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As Time Goes By Features
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About As Time Goes By
Essentially a re-release of his classic A Little Touch of Schmilsson album--with the addition of six extra tracks, not included in the original release--this remains one of the loveliest and most enduring examples of Harry Nillson's craft, with the singer covering standards by Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, among others. But what's fascinating here is the friction between the context of the songs (mostly, the 1930s) and their interpretation (the 1970s): respectful to his sources he may be, but Nilsson also bought a thoroughly modern sensibility to his material, managing to invest even comparative trifles ("Always") with a yearning, postwar sensibility, a nostalgic sense of lost opportunities. Tracks like "What'll I Do" and "This Is All I Ask" are masterpieces of weary romanticism; but he even manages to take a classic like "Over The Rainbow"--a song positively over-burdened with history--and make it all his own. No doubt about it, the man was a star. --Andrew McGuire
