who sings the song everybody's talkin at me
Fred Neil
title: Everybody's Talkin' text: Tony Bennett, Luna, Bill Withers, Madeleine Peyroux, Louis Armstrong, Leonard Nimoy, Julio Iglesias, Lena Horne, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, the Beautiful South and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Nilsson's version was sampled in 2002 by Paul Oakenfold on "Starry Eyed Surprise" and in 2004 by the Go! Team on "Everyone's a V.I.P. to Someone". Everybody's Talkin' "Everybody's Talkin'" is a song written and recorded by singer-songwriter Fred Neil in 1966. A version of the song performed by Harry Nilsson became a hit in 1969, reaching No. 6 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart and winning a Grammy Award after title: Everybody's Talkin' text: Everybody's Talkin' "Everybody's Talkin'" is a song written and recorded by singer-songwriter Fred Neil in 1966. A version of the song performed by Harry Nilsson became a hit in 1969, reaching No. 6 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart and winning a Grammy Award after it was featured in the film "Midnight Cowboy". The song, which describes the singer's desire to retreat from other people to the ocean, is among the most famous works of both artists, and has been covered by many other notable performers. The song later appeared in the 1994 film "Forrest Gump" and is also on title: Everybody's Talkin' text: the film's soundtrack album. It also appeared in the comedy film "Borat", on "The Hangover Part III" soundtrack, in the English television show "Black Books", the action comedy film "Crank", and in the "Only Fools and Horses" episode "The Jolly Boys Outing". The song was first released on Neil's second album, the self-titled "Fred Neil", released in early 1967. It was composed towards the end of the session, after Neil had become anxious to wrap the album so he could return to his home in Miami, Florida. Manager Herb Cohen promised that if Neil wrote and recorded a final track, title: Everybody's Talkin' text: Nilsson was searching for a potentially successful song when Rick Jarrard played the track for him, and he decided to release it on his 1968 album "Aerial Ballet". When released as a single in July 1968, it managed to reach only No. 113 on the "Billboard" Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart. After the song was featured as the theme song in the film "Midnight Cowboy" in 1969, the song was re-released as a single and became a hit, peaking at No. 6 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart and No. 2 on the "Billboard" Easy Listening chart. When Derek title: Everybody's Talkin' text: connect with others. Not hearing or truly seeing them, the speaker declares an intention to leave for the ocean and the summer breeze. AllMusic's Denise Sullivan describes Neil's version as "positively spooky and Spartan" by comparison to Nilsson's better-known cover, whose arrangement she felt captured the "freedom, shrouded in regret and loss, implied in the lyric". Nilsson's single for the song sold over a million copies and charted on both "Billboard"'s Adult Contemporary and Pop Singles charts, reaching numbers 2 and 6 respectively in 1969. Nilsson's single also won a Grammy that year. The song became a global success and