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Aerial Ballet is the third album by Harry Nilsson released in 1968. Aerial Ballet was Nilsson’s second album for RCA Victor, and was titled after the highwire circus act of his grandparents. It consists almost entirely of songs written by him, including “One”, which later became a Number Five hit for Three Dog Night. (The song’s opening line, “One is the loneliest number”, is a common phrase to this day, but very few people know who coined it.) The title of the album has been given by Joey Kramer as the inspiration for Aerosmith’s name and wings motif. The most familiar track from Aerial Ballet is its one cover song, Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talkin’“. It was released as a single in North America in 1968, and reached the top forty in Canada—but initially... Read on...