[5] The album does not have a distinctive style but ranges over ballads, show tunes, nostalgic Americana, and tin pan alley-like soft shoe numbers.

[citation needed] This song, about a homeless woman's confusion and misery, has been covered by Melanie Safka, Bobby Graham, Jennifer Trynin, Jiffipop, and Al Kooper.

Director John Schlesinger had been using Nilsson's cover of Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin'" as an example of the kind of song he wanted on the final soundtrack but then decided not to replace it.

Sinéad O'Connor recorded a cover of the song for the film You've Got Mail, but director Nora Ephron decided to use Nilsson's original.

Co-written with William "Bill" Martin in 1968, this song has been covered by The Cryan Shames (non-album, 1969), Tom Northcott (#38 Canada 1970), Bobbie Gentry (Fancy, 1970), Michael Nesmith (Nevada Fighter, 1971) and The 5th Dimension (Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes, 1971).

Country group the Wright Brothers Band did a medley of this song together with "Dawson", in both studio and live versions, on the albums Cornfield Cowboys and Memorabila Box.

The song is also notable for its opening drum beat, which has been sampled by over thirty artists, including Cypress Hill, Method Man, and The Roots.