Harry Nilsson - Save The Last Dance For Me Lyrics

No one sang it better and no one ever will

I just came across this a week ago and I can't stop listening to it. Wow! Can't even explain why.

Even though his voice is fucked hi still sells it beautifully .RIP HARRY

It’s amazing the fact that the original versions of songs like this seem to be small compared to Nilsson’s version. Especially this one produced by Lennon. It’s a very good representation of the feeling of sadness and happiness. Same happens with Without you. Badfinger is a good band, the original version alone is good, then again Nilsson’s is amazing.

Good night, Harry.

That's both John and Harry.

what a treasure of a song.

His voice can just relax you so fast one of a kind

Lennon was so julious of Harry . In the studio Lennon challenge Harry who could scream the loudest in a song . And that's how Harry destroyed his voice and Lennon planned it that way .Harry one but lost that grate voice of his . Thanks John

i did some deejay work in clubs...i would play this song at the end of the night....

Play it at 1.25 and it sounds so much better.

Where Bowie got it from. No Lennon , no Bowie .

Uma das mais belas canções, na voz maravilhosa do Harry Nilson!

Harry's taking you home.

Lennon & Nilsson, perfect together., na zawsze

Suffocating compression and reverb, but it influenced me greatly. Listening to the Pussy Cats album is like trying to swim through thick syrup.

Jim McDade ... hmmm ... odd thing Jim, I don't recall your last chart album/single/EP - although I'm absolutely certain it is way better than anything Harry Nilsson and/or John Lennon ever did. Nice one.

jim mcdade must be the king of FLAT audio. lol.

Is John singing backing on this?

no Harry did most of all the back ground singing on all of his albums

@Tom Breen yes he did. Except here where it is clearly Lennon

On all it was mostly Nilsson his voice only

That perfect wall of sound. Lennon, not only a great musician but also a great and wise producer.

you said it brother magic

I think John's best work is PUSSY CATS.

RIP Harry Edward Nilsson.

Drugs are bad?????

what was your first idea on that like use to say back then DON,T DO DRUGS

Na they’re fantastic

Only when they are prescribed.

Cosmotalitans

Lennon & Nilsson, perfect together.

The best

but don't forget who's takin you home mama

Harry Nilsson & John Lennon doing a cover of The Drifters " Save The Last Dance For Me" off  Nilsson's and Lennon produced album, Pussy Cats, with Ringo, Klaus Voormann, and Jessie Ed Davis, 1974. https://youtu.be/FrRUgkSV8SE

Thanks so much for posting Harry's version of this song. His nuanced approach is astounding, despite the fact that he was wrecking his vocal chords while making the Pussy Cats album.

well what do you expect when the record company want,s done as soon as possible if sooner, but he did just fine

The best version of this song I've ever heard.

yea he just has a away to just make you feel so relax with this song

@ Bill, me too.

Just brilliant. So proud to have been and always will be a Nilsson fan. Miss ya Harry.

that makes two of us got all of his albums

I had/have ? the cassette somewhere. I think I had this on 8track. I still love it. Check this out. 2 Pussycats playing sweet music together in Heaven. John and Harry made beautiful giant music. 

you said it they were a great team when they got together it was magic

Bara så bra!

He effed his voice up, bad, while recording this album… still sounds great.

this was my very first album that I ever had (my sister bought it for me in 1975) and when I heard this song (first song on side one) I was hooked, this is the way this song shoud be sang always!! I can't understand why the D-J's don't play this song ? The way Harry sings it,it becomes a very powerful song and you can picture the whole story in your mind. the Drifters version is good but Mr. Nilsson came up with the perfect way for this song to be enjoyed. Sadly most people has never heard it

i have all of Nilsson,s album,s they are all good but like you this one stands out, you should listen to his album the Point.He did all the vocals on that one WOW

He did all the vocals on all his records

Can you 'imagine' the music on the other side? If it gets better it must be in heaven!

A twenty fifth anniversary addition? I've been looking for this CD for ages, and I finally got it used for five bucks. They're selling it on Ebay for $60. Probably Yoko's fault...

OH please leave her alone she is not a fault,so grow up just enjoy the song

why Yoko had nothing to do with it

DISCAZO

So so Brilliant. When two giants meet, the earth moves..

I've always dug this album. I have the 25yr anniversary addition with the bonus tracks, none are in print now. You can't beat Harry with John, check out Dylan's subterranean Homesick Blues", Lennon's "Mucho Mungo/Mt. Elga", "Many Rivers To Cross", Harry's "Old Forgotten Soldier", and "Rock Around The Clock". Classic stuff, at the time it was panned - the critics said it just made Harry sound like John. An extreme diamond from the past, with Ringo,Kieth MoonKlaus Voorman Bobby Keys+

Randy Soul

best version of this i ever heard.

It starts out like a different version of "without you"

Harry Nilsson: Save the last dance for me (demo).....found it from a link on you tube. It brought tears to my eyes,he hits notes he'd never hit again. It's a demo so its not a full performance but if there were any doubt where and when he blew his voice..its Pussy Cats! Not years of abuse like some have said!! Sad though.......

This version is right after he hemraged his vocal chords but the earlier alt take is before...can anyone post the early take??I've only heard about it,love to compare the two!

Thank you so much for posting this!! I lost my Nilsson LP's years ago and have been singing this version since, unable to find another recording of it. First time I heard this version I knew it was a billion times better than the original - but then, Harry Nilsson's a billion times better than most....

Yes, Nilsson tore a volcal coard during the recording of this ablum.....He did not want to tell Lennon, as he was afraid Lennon would not continue until he had healed...ANd this could have ment the end of his colaberation with Lennon.....He did suffer a bit through this album...His voice did come back, however, maybe never quite as good.....By the end of his career he didnt have much of a voice left. But early on...this man had a one in a million singing voice.!!!

His vocals on Knnilllsssonn are excellent, just a lower register

@MangledBizarre I'm sorry, I don't have that version.

@monkey5000 Up vote for Dennis Wilson.

@Timwgtn In fact, I also didn't find it here and so I decided to post it myself

overflowing me with sadness and beauty

read so much about how utterly drunk they were at this point, but stil the well executed pain .. about as raspy as i've heard nillsson, reminds me of the air that surrounds the pacific ocean blue by dennis wilson. still has great humour, great strings too, mixed up emotions here