Midnight Cowboy: Music From The Motion Picture

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Frankel, Glenn (2020). SHOOTING MIDNIGHT COWBOY: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp.175–176. ISBN 9780374209018.

Midnight Cowboy by Waldo Salt; Based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy; Draft: 2/2/68". Archived from the original on 2018-11-30 . Retrieved 2018-11-21. Two exceptions to this rule come at the beginning of the movie, and during the pair’s desolate strolls through the city streets. In both cases, the music is turned up and the dialogue is kept to a minimum. The songs played during these scenes are “Everybody’s Talkin’” and the movie’s theme, “Midnight Cowboy.” Midnight Cowboy was one of the first film to make extensive use of pop artists and songs. John Barry supervised the music and composed the score, winning a Grammy for Best Instrumental Theme. "That movie is still shown at the cinema school at UCLA as the epitome of how songs should be used in the movies," Barry said in 1997. "We only bought in a couple of songs, Everybody's Talkin', sung by Harry Nilsson, and a John Lennon song, and for the rest we got young songwriters to score the scenes with songs. The songs work because they were written for the movie." Awards Winners". Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05 . Retrieved 2010-06-06. Duke, Brad (July 1, 2008). Harrison Ford: The Films. McFarland. ISBN 9780786440481– via Google Books.The theme song to Midnight Cowboy is driven by the forlorn harmonica of Toots Theilemans. John Barry scored it as a slow, melancholy melody reminiscent of a warm, lazy day with nothing to do. Except the movie uses it to exploit the loneliness one can feel walking along a crowded street. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 7th, 1969, Ferrante and Teicher performed "Midnight Cowboy" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'... Arthur Ferrante passed away on September 19th, 2009 at age 88 and Louis Teicher died on August 3th, 2008 at age 83... Mitchell, David (2014). "Gay Pasts and Disability Future(s) Tense". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 8 (1): 1–16. doi: 10.3828/jlcds.2014.1. S2CID 145241198.

John Barry was one of the all-time great masters of movie music. His career spanned some 50 years - from Midnight Cowboy and Born Free to Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa - taking in 11 James Bond films along the way. The five-times Oscar winner was born in York on 3 November 1933. Midnight Cowboy Film Locations". On the Set of New York. Archived from the original on January 7, 2015 . Retrieved February 14, 2015. Monaco, Paul (2001). History of the American Cinema: 1960–1969. The Sixties. Vol.8. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p.166. ISBN 9780520238046.The song “Everybody’s Talkin’,” written by Fred Neil in 1966, was selected as a main theme for the film, newly recorded with arrangements by George Tipton and performed by Harry Nilsson. It became an instant classic and ultimately a generational symbol. The song "Everybody's Talkin'," written by Fred Neil in 1966, was selected as a main theme for the film, newly recorded with arrangements by George Tipton and performed by Harry Nilsson. It became an instant classic and ultimately a generational symbol.