Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994), usually credited as
Nilsson, was an American
singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. He is known for the
charting singles "
Everybody's Talkin'" (1969), "Without You" (1971), and "
Coconut" (1972). Nilsson also wrote the song "
One" (1968), made famous by the rock band
Three Dog Night. A tenor with a three-and-a-half octave range, Nilsson was one of the few major pop-rock recording artists of his era to achieve significant commercial success without ever performing major public concerts or undertaking regular tours. His work is characterized by pioneering overdub experiments, returns to the
Great American Songbook, and fusions of
Caribbean sounds.