Harry Nilsson’s 1971 song “Jump Into The Fire” demonstrated that he could deliver forceful rock music as convincingly as the gentle ballads for which he was better known. Released from the album Nilsson Schmilsson, it helped broaden his public image after earlier successes including “Everybody’s Talkin’” and the song “One”, which became a hit for Three Dog Night.

The article describes the track as a lengthy, intense jam built around drums, guitars, keyboards and Herbie Flowers’s unusual detuned bass passage, with Nilsson adding screamed vocals. The album version runs for just under seven minutes after being edited from a 10-minute session, while the shorter single reached No. 27 on the US pop chart; its troubled-relationship lyrics and frantic sound were later used memorably in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas.