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Me and My Arrow

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B-side
  
"Are You Sleeping?"

Format
  
7" single

Length
  
2:03

Released
  
March 1971 (1971)

Genre
  
Pop

Label
  
RCA Victor

"Me and My Arrow" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson for his 1970 album The Point!. It was also released as a single in 1971, reaching number 34 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

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The song was composed as the theme for Oblio, the pointless boy, and his dog, Arrow. Although the song may be a reference to take a direction and suddenly not knowing where to go, it is in fact about the friendship between Oblio and the dog. It is also a parable for discrimination.

Cover versions

  • 1977 – Diana Ross, in the medley "The Point", from An Evening with Diana Ross
  • 1995 – Adrian Belew, For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson
  • 2014 – Darren Hayman, DOG E.P.
  • 2016 – Loch Lomond, Pens from Spain
  • Featured in the season 24 episode "To Cur with Love" of The Simpsons, as the theme for Homer Simpson and his dog, Bongo.
  • Used in a series of television commercials promoting the Plymouth Arrow compact car.
  • Blackalicious sampled the song on "Blazing Arrow".

    • References

    Me and My Arrow Wikipedia
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