NILSSON: the true one: Harry in early French pressing

Harry et la France

Early albums and singles in original French pressing.

Most of them issued in the same year 1970.

Typical French covers that make a particular discography

in the way that they were not used for any other countries.

Both LP’s presented here are compilations issued right after

the success of John Schlesinger’s classic movie Midnight Cowboy and the hit song from the OST, Everybody's Talkin'.

They are equally composed from the three first RCA original LPs issued in US a few years before (1967/1969) called Pandemonium Shadow Show, Aerial Ballet, Harry. So, that makes two LP's out of three.

Five singles made in France in late 60's with very specific sleeves, that a good way to discover Harry's songs like You Can't Do That, Ten Little Indians, Everybody's Talkin', Don't Leave Me, I Will Take You There, Rainmaker, I Guess The Lord Must Be In New-York City, and Maybe.

A very first French single is the Beatles medley You Can't Do That and is quite rare and not easy to find.

It was issued in October 1967 with reference 49.517 and no need to say that it didn't sell very well at that time in France.

That's probably why this one is so hard to find. And most of all, it was released long before the very first LP was out in France (French people had to wait March 1970 to get Harry on LP).

The second French single is the hit song Everybody's Talkin' and was issued in September 1968 and has the reference 49.562.

It was from Harry's second LP on RCA Victor, Aerial Ballet.

The same single was re-issued later in 1969 with the same reference for the movie Midnight Cowboy but a different cover with a picture of Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman taken from the movie.