Without You

Cover version of the month #124Harry Nilsson covers Badfinger ... and so does Mariah CareyI always thought that Without You was a Harry Nilsson song, and ... it kind of is. I guess I came to this conclusion because his name was mentioned regularly back in 1994 when Mariah Carey took the song to number 1. In fact, the song was written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of the Welsh band Badfinger who released albums via Apple and received huge support from Paul McCartney. Macca wrote Come And Get It for Badfinger in 1969. It's worth checking Paul's demo, where he played all the instruments, that came out Anthology 3. Remarkably, McCartney recorded it all in just 1-hour.McCartney once described Without You as the killer song of all-time, high praise indeed. The song itself came together in a Beatles-y way, think of Lennon and McCartney merging two songs together for A Day In the Life. That's, kind of, what happened with Badfinger.Ham wrote a song called If It's Love containing the heartbreaking…