This track originally appeared on the For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson tribute album. Neil Innes, from The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and The Rutles, and Chris Difford of Squeeze provide backing vocals. Furthermore, the opening vocal motif from Nilsson's song 'Good Old Desk' is used as a background vocal line (at approximately 1:54 into the song). ('Life isn't easy when two are divided / and one has decided / to bring down the curtain / and one thing's for certain / there's nothing to keep them together.'). This version of the song also includes lyrics from Nilsson's song 'Together' sung in the background. Mix!' taken from the start of his song 'Cuddly Toy'.

It opens with a sample of Nilsson saying 'Okay, Mr. The song 'One', written by Harry Nilsson and originally made popular by Three Dog Night, is played during the first five minutes of the movie, and contains several obscure musical references to other Nilsson songs. The beginning of the song 'You Could Make a Killing' and the bit that appears after the track 'It's Not Safe', both from I'm with Stupid, also appear briefly in the beginning of the film, but the tracks do not appear on this album. ( Bachelor also includes 'Red Vines', a song Mann wrote about director Anderson.) 'Nothing Is Good Enough', here an instrumental, appears in lyrical form on that album. 2, though the track 'Save Me' replaces 'Driving Sideways' on EU editions. The tracks 'Deathly', 'Driving Sideways', and 'You Do' show up on Aimee Mann's following album, Bachelor No. 'Save Me' would garner Mann an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song, losing to Phil Collins's song ' You'll Be in My Heart' from Tarzan. Many of the songs feature prominently within the film, with 'Wise Up' even being sung by the cast at one point, but only two of the songs were written expressly for the film, those being 'You Do' and ' Save Me'. Paul Thomas Anderson stated that Magnolia was inspired by Mann's music.

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