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It was also issued as the album's second single, after " Without You ", and peaked at number 27 on America's Billboard Hot chart and number 16 in Canada. Written by Nilsson, the song is in the hard rock style and marked a departure from his previous work. The recording was produced by Richard Perry and includes a segment where the bass player, Herbie Flowers , audibly detunes his instrument.

He adds: "Lyrically, on the surface, it's a hot lovers plea; however, it could easily be taken as a plea to society as a whole.

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Like a lot of Nilsson's greatest songs, it works on many different levels. Nilsson recorded the song in London in for his album Nilsson Schmilsson. I really needed [to make that change], too; that was exactly what I was hoping would happen. Overdubs on this master take included Nilsson's vocals, guitar solos by John Uribe and another rhythm guitar part by Klaus Voormann.

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In , the song was used by director Martin Scorsese as the soundtrack to a frenetic scene in his film Goodfellas , when Ray Liotta 's character Henry Hill, a cocaine -addicted gangster, fears that the authorities are closing in on his illegal activities. In , "Jump into the Fire" was covered by Alice Cooper 's supergroup Hollywood Vampires on their self-titled debut album.

Cooper said: "Harry Nilsson was a ballad writer, so we found 'Jump into the Fire', which was actually a pretty good rock song. It was all based on drums, so we have Dave Grohl on drums. Jim Gordon's drum solo would later be used as one of the drum tracks for The Orb 's single " Little Fluffy Clouds ", slowed down from 45 to 33 rpm approximately.

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