Song Showcase - You're Breakin' My Heart by Harry Nilsson

In 1972, Harry Nilsson put out one of his numerous classics. You're Breakin' My Heart wasn't in the same league as his stunning cover of Badfinger's Without You, but it had one thing that certainly set it apart from any other song out there.

The opening line of the song is "You're breaking my heart, you're tearing it apart, so fuck you."

This is a full 38 years before Cee Lo Green put out his song, Fuck You, and two years before Cee Lo was even born. Harry Nilsson was a trail blazer. It's also worth noting that Nilsson drops the F-bomb ten words into the song while Cee Lo waited thirteen to do the same in his.

This song isn't in the same league as Nilsson Sings Newman, Without You or Everybody's Talkin, but it has one thing that none of those songs had. It was an original Nilsson composition. The guy was a great songwriter, but was known mostly for his covers. He had a wonderfully off beat sense of humor to his songs, and this was a great example of that.