In response to my Badfinger post from last month, Duke sent me this solo version of “Without You” that can be found on the Pete Ham collection Golders Green. Elegant minimalism and simplicity.
Download:
MP3: Pete Ham :: Without You (solo version)
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isn’t it beautiful?
i love that even though ham and tom evans usually wrote seperately, their biggest hit was a collaboration as evens wrote the “i can’t live” chorus….
i just heard an interview with nilsson right before his death on k rock in nyc….he talks about how he heard the song at a party in laurel canyon and asked around the next day til he found it…apparently, badfinger were down the hall where he recorded it and he brought them in to listen to his version of it and it (quite understandably ) blew them away!
if yer ineterested, i can get you the nilsson interview to post, or this other ham song called “it doesn’;t really matter” from his demos….
love the blog, check it every day…..
jay gonzalez
Jay, wold love to hear that..please hit me up at aquariumdrunkard @ gmail
Thank you for posting this. This is such a great song.
Sorry, I tried to insert the video from youtube…
but this system doesn’t include it.
However, here the link:
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Ty8R8tlo4