“Without You” — Nilsson / Mariah Carey

No Words, No Song
5 min readNov 14, 2020
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Whether you think “Without You” is a Nilsson song or a Mariah Carey song largely depends how old you are. But the correct answer is “neither”.

“Without You” was written in 1970 by two members of British group Badfinger, Pete Ham and Tom Evans, and was first recorded by Badfinger for their 1970 album “No Dice”.

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No Words, No Song

Without words, it’s just a nice tune. Add words — now you’ve got a song. And songs can change your world. I write about some that changed mine.