Those of you knocking the Nilsson cover of this song need to go and actually listen to it.  His more legato reading of the chorus is an improvement over the rather abrupt phrasing in the chorus of the original.  It's a great performance of a great pop song, not just some maudlin commercial tear-jerker.  It's nice that we have two fine versions of this song to choose from, there's no need to rubbish one in order to build up the other.