News Summary

• While recording Son of Schmilsson, Nilsson fed his demons a diet of Brandy Alexanders and issued a song with the lyric “you’re breaking my heart, you’re tearing me apart, so fuck you.”So that’s one self-destructive alcoholic and one violent misogynist echoing through Ken’s Christmas single..
• The album’s sole original composition is “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” performed by Darlene Love.But the strings section (and Gosling-as-Ken’s despondency) reads less Spector-y and more like Harry Nilsson..
• His “wall of sound” arrangement style is all over this single, as well as his compilation album A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector..
• “He’d just separated, and was going through a divorce with his first wife Diane, and it hit him really hard,” producer Richard Perry says in the documentary Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him)?.
• On December 20, the Barbie bros left one more present under the mojo dojo casa house’s Xmas tree..
• The arrangement is reminiscent of his album of jazz standards, A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night, but the energy is all Son of Schmilsson..