"Everybody's Talkin' (Echoes)" is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Fred Neil in 1966 and released two years later.

The song, which describes the singer's desire to retreat from the harshness of the city to a more peaceful place and an easier life, is among the most famous works of both artists, and has been covered by many other notable performers.

[7] Five years later, Neil permanently fulfilled the promise of the speaker in the song, rejecting fame to live the rest of his life in relative obscurity "where the sun keeps shining / thru' the pouring rain" in his home in Coconut Grove, Miami.

[8][9][10] Harry Nilsson was searching for a successful song when Rick Jarrard played the track for him,[11] and he decided to record it on November 13, 1967.

[7][13][14] Nilsson re-recorded the song with a slightly different arrangement from the Aerial Ballet version, to better adapt to the music lengths required for various sequences in the film.

[19] Described in The Rock Snob*s Dictionary as an "anti-urban plaint",[20] "Everybody's Talkin'" depicts the introverted speaker's inability to connect with others.

AllMusic's Denise Sullivan describes Neil's version as "positively spooky and Spartan" by comparison to Nilsson's better-known cover, whose arrangement she felt captured the "freedom, shrouded in regret and loss, implied in the lyric".

[11] The line "Going where the weather suits my clothes" is paraphrased from "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad", a traditional American folk song.

Creswell, writing in 1001 Songs, claims that the hit "made Nilsson a superstar," exposing him to a much broader fan base and altering his reputation from solely that of a songwriter to a singer.

[6] The more notable versions include ones by Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Neil Diamond, Liza Minnelli, Tony Bennett, Luna, Bill Withers, Madeleine Peyroux, Louis Armstrong, Leonard Nimoy, Iggy Pop, Julio Iglesias, Lena Horne, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, the Beautiful South, Jimmy Buffett, Bobby Goldsboro and Crosby, Stills & Nash.