Flash Harry (album)

Flash Harry is the sixteenth and final album by Harry Nilsson. Originally released only in the UK and Japan, it has never been released in the U.S. . Aside from bootlegs the album has never been released on CD. When the album was originally released it received minimal support from Harry's label Mercury and disappeared without a trace shortly after release. Although there were a number of songs that might have been considered for a possible single Mercury never released a proper single from the album.

The album is most notable for Nilsson's own recording of "Old Dirt Road" which he had co-written and performed with John Lennon on Lennon's last album Walls and Bridges(1974)which was Lennon's last collection of original songs before his "retirement". Flash Harry was released in 1980 the same year that Lennon had resumed his career and the same year he was assassinated.

Shortly after the release of this album, Nilsson retired from recording. Though he would subsequently reverse his decision and record various songs for film soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s, he never issued another full album. (Literally hours before his 1994 death, Nilsson finished recording the final vocal tracks for a planned 'comeback' album, but it has yet to be released.)

Track listing

1. "Harry" (Eric Idle) – 2:22 (this track produced by Eric Idle, Trevor Jones, and Andre Jacquemin and sung by Eric Idle and Charlie Dore)
2. "Cheek to Cheek" (Lowell George, Van Dyke Parks, Martin Fydor Kibbee) – 2:30
3. "Best Move" (Nilsson, Parks, Michael Hazlewood) – 4:04
4. "Old Dirt Road" (Nilsson, John Lennon) – 4:26
5. "I Don't Need You" (Rick L. Christian) – 3:49
6. "Rain" (Nilsson) – 3:51
7. "I've Got It!" (Nilsson, Perry Botkin, Jr.) – 3:42
8. "It's So Easy" (Nilsson, Paul Stallworth) – 4:43
9. "How Long Can Disco On" (Nilsson, Ringo Starr) – 2:54
10. "Bright Side of Life" (Idle) – 4:12