Mariah\'s second-ever cover song was a sweeping, moving version of \"Without you\", which had been such a big, enduring hit for Harry Nilsson in the early seventies that it was generally assumed he\'d written it. In actuality, it had been penned by Pete Ham and Tommy Evans of the ill-fated British band Badfinger (troubled by financial problems, both those songwriters would eventually commit suicide). But it was Nilsson\'s hit that Mariah had grown up with and loved, and which she used as a basic for her version. Mariah and Walter\'s arrangement owed a great deal to Nilsson\'s rendition, rather than to the original, although it did strip away some of the massive orchestration that tended to overwhelm the Nilsson cut.\n\nIn a rather sad, ironic footnote, on the day Mariah\'s version of \"Without you\" was released, Harry Nilsson, only in his early fifties, died from heart problems. However, the record was not withdrawn, but allowed to stand, at least in part as a tribute to his talent (he had released a number of excellent albums, and was a very talented songwriter in his own right). \"Without you\" entered the Billboard Hot 100 at the end of January 1994 at number 53, then climbed speedily to numbers 35, 12, 7 then to number 6 and number 4, where it remained for three weeks before managing one more small jump to number 3, where it stayed. That would be its peak.\n\nIn Europe, \"Without you\" would be Mariah\'s biggest hit up-to-date. It entered the UK Top 40 at the top position, her first number 1 hit. And in the Netherlands it occupied the same position for five weeks, her second number 1 hit after \"I\'ll be there\". Thanks to \"Without you\", the album \"Music box\" would become the best-selling album of 1994 in the Netherlands.

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