John Barry - Midnight Cowboy (1981) • TopPop

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Broadcast date: 1981/1/10
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TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years.
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@rubinmendoza13 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this song. Reminds me of being 8-9 years old and feeling ultra safe in my mom and dad’s presence. Life is short, isn’t it…

@michaelmelling9333 Жыл бұрын

It sure is, my friend, it sure is.🍻 May 13, 2023

@taroman7100 Жыл бұрын

yes, and no one ever convinces us at the time.

@deisebosco8036 Жыл бұрын

Eu também 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 tinha a mesma idade

@elizabethwheatman8526 Жыл бұрын

I remember my dad having a John Barry CD and this would play. Good memories.

@suzmik Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love this comment! So very true.

@allsorts9909 Жыл бұрын

Amazing how much emotion can be packed into such a small musical instrument. John Barry was a genius

@closetstarwarsfreak Жыл бұрын

The emotion isn't packed into the instrument it is in the human being ❤

@degreuneful Жыл бұрын

More then a genius....

@adminkidd 11 ай бұрын

John Lennon played the mouth organ on a number of early Beatles hits.

@tomstamford6837 11 ай бұрын

There's not many people I would have loved to have met. John Barry was one of them. Even just to say a simple, "Thank you for your music."

@alfredogomez5241 11 ай бұрын

You are correct

@thom6746 2 жыл бұрын

It's a simple descending line of notes, but so evocative of loneliness, quiet times, contemplation. Unforgettable.

@Habu2 Жыл бұрын

Great description

@The1976spirit Жыл бұрын

It´s a lullaby. No more, no less. Rainman has spoken. Period. q.e.d. --added the oldest Henderson boy (schrillte der Ilt)

@maxb4074 4 ай бұрын

The 1960's were a dream.

@richardplume3212 Ай бұрын

4561s my number n hav a grandson yes life is sweet not mud

@michaelcummingsherrera1232 3 жыл бұрын

I was released from the US Army on, 26 August 1969, after spending two tours in South Vietnam as a combat medic. Therefore, I have a strong memory of the weeks following my discharge. I remember this song, Midnight Cowboy, Everybody's Talkin' At Me, A Time For Us, Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, and, One Tin Soldier. All these songs were on movie soundtracks. I do remember other songs that were on the charts as well, that were entertainment related such as, Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In, Good Morning Starshine, and, Easy To Be Hard. I remember other songs on the charts as well, but that is another matter.

@elifoust7664 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for SERving America...This we'll defend

@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069 Жыл бұрын

Fair play mate , you made it 🍺

@Just2HepCats Жыл бұрын

🙂from Tiger-Balm and Chandra (Tiger-Balm is my authentic Bengal Tiger mix).

@brettwells66 Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks for chiming in. I was about 4 years old when you were released! I still remember my parents playing this this music and much more.

@traceydarcy6528 Жыл бұрын

Lovely musical memories that will last a life time Michael

@luismiguelgarronrevaliente7628 3 жыл бұрын

The Ending to Midnight Cowboy along with this theme tune has been known to break even the hardest of men down into tears. Both are absolute masterpieces.

@denniskelley8974 2 ай бұрын

Yeah... I was doing just fine till they had to show that last scene from the movie. Powerful stuff. :(

@robertwood574 2 ай бұрын

The first and last film to make me cry. Went with a couple of my mates when it first came out and I think the cinema had a problem with the air con, we all had a problem with watering eyes.

@niallkennedy23 27 күн бұрын

right on dude.

@warrenwatkins9650 26 күн бұрын

This is one of the most emotional harmonica solos of all time. I can't hardly describe these feelings I feel now! Just beautiful! THANKS EVERYONE!!!

@Melissa-jj2zn 22 күн бұрын

Exactly this!

@voiceguy3635 3 жыл бұрын

This type of music could only be made in the late 60s.

@brigittephilippron8041 6 күн бұрын

Ceci Est immortel

@rkmklz7562 7 ай бұрын

I miss the 1960s and 1970s....those 20 years gave us great music 🎵🎶🎶 and memories!

@bgaineshunter 5 ай бұрын

For me, the 50s and 60s. I could skip the 70s folk songs.

@T.Z.M4N 5 ай бұрын

The song and movie remind me of walking the streets of New York surrounded by millions of people but yet had a feeling of loneliness.A great song that brings back bittersweet memories.

@donspartan9414 5 ай бұрын

I’m with you. Great times and memories.

@michaelbrian219 5 ай бұрын

A great time to be in your teens.

@youngyeller 5 ай бұрын

yes. every generation has their faviiorites, like you, 60-70 music was mine. truely un repeateable.

@Nautilus1972 2 ай бұрын

John Barry - Genius.

@lorenapasquetti8627 2 ай бұрын

👍👍👍vero. Fantastico❤

@jimakalley6389 Жыл бұрын

just lost a great friend and i can't stop playing this, thank you John Barry - RIP Scott Kayes, gonna miss you brother, built of steel!

@pakovitz4088 Жыл бұрын

I sorry for your loss

@Habu2 Жыл бұрын

Good luck fella.....

@trishjohnston3037 Жыл бұрын

Sorry for your loss… x

@tinydancer62 Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss.

@vairamjaishree Жыл бұрын

My condolences Jim

@adelinas.7335 3 жыл бұрын

This is the most beautiful song on a harmonica I ever heard of in my life.

@tedherrala611 3 жыл бұрын

Can we meet im from Stockholm in Sweden and my name is Ted

@tedherrala611 3 жыл бұрын

This song get my emotional

@rhubarbd2003 3 жыл бұрын

100%

@craigezell4261 3 жыл бұрын

It has a beautiful sadness to it especially when you hear it at the end of the movie Midnight Cowboy.It can well your eyes up.

@teresamartin4735 3 жыл бұрын

I agree!

@hectorlabbe Ай бұрын

Pay attention today’s generation! Pure talent here with Barry playing that harmonica and the best soundtrack ever! Soul, emotions and love ❤️

@y0rkiebar Ай бұрын

It's Tommy Reilly playing.

@piercejohnson29 Ай бұрын

Taking notes!! 📝

@hectorlabbe Ай бұрын

@@y0rkiebarI was convinced it was Barry… Sorry for the mistake! I wasn’t born but I LOVE Midnight Cowboy since I discovered it in 1994! 😎

@hectorlabbe Ай бұрын

⁠@@y0rkiebarAre you sure it’s Tommy Reilly? Everywhere they say it’s John Barry… 😮

@y0rkiebar Ай бұрын

@@hectorlabbe 100%, google Tommy Reilly and compare with this video.

@donhosmer8159 5 ай бұрын

66 and just stumbled upon this in 2024 Have always loved the song and the movie

@andrewbaker7548 Жыл бұрын

John Barry was a super talented musical genius. Quite brilliant!

@neils1952 4 жыл бұрын

Listening to this makes me drive slower, be calmer, kinder and a better persons to be around.....now that's the power of great music...

@thethe6232 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, because remember, “ we are all walking here “ 👍

@holgerwagner5777 3 жыл бұрын

It needs more music like this and people like you.

@johnquinn7401 3 жыл бұрын

I want to laearn

@johnquinn7401 3 жыл бұрын

How to learn harmooicc

@mariaalano3077 3 жыл бұрын

i.have that i CD and play it again and again.

@kurtnygren3476 3 жыл бұрын

Mixture of sadness, melancholy; bathed in nostalgia as I was 16 years old in 1969.

@stevemelancon6207 2 жыл бұрын

Me too Kurt. I too was 16 in 1969. The best music ever. The best times ever.

@d.l.b3452 2 жыл бұрын

I was just 2 years old . Watched the film in my early teens . Just brilliant 🤩

@aromero385 2 жыл бұрын

I was the same age.

@deliomarciofallerpereira 2 жыл бұрын

Eu 9.

@boomerhgt 2 жыл бұрын

I was 12 fabulous music

@dennissantoni7060 2 жыл бұрын

Without a doubt the most underrated musical composer of all time. Who was better composing musical scores for movies? This sound he created for Midnight Cowboy put you right on the street in NYC. What a talented and gifted composer. RIP your music lives on!

@hectorpena7068 Жыл бұрын

HENRY MANCINI! Just take a look at all the awards he received throughout his career. John Barry is also among my all-time favorite gifted composers.

@chalkmiracle122 Жыл бұрын

John Barry was a genius. His music could take a movie to another level. 'The Ipcress File' and 'Out of Africa' to name but two.

@orangescout1967 Жыл бұрын

John Barry is my absolute favorite. Every bit as good as John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini or Elmer Bernstein. A true master composer.

@seanhuds229 Жыл бұрын

Got to agree with these guys, I wouldnt say better but comparable, Ennio Morricone and Henry Mancini were excellent!

@martinmccrary3085 Жыл бұрын

Now I've always resided in St. Louis, Mo., & even though N.Y. C. is far more prolific, in my mind & on my phone, I STILL hear songs from the MIDNIGHT COWBOY SOUNDTRACK (ESP. MIDNIGHT COWBOY!) when I'm out & about on my journeys, esp. in Downtown St. Louis, "*EAST BOOGIE!*" & other areas in Illinois, & esp. where my "*OLD HAUNTS!*" used 2 b, & VERY FEW of them are STILL IN BUSINESS!

@chonacabrera5040 2 ай бұрын

One of the most memorable movie scores ever! Beautifully haunting 🌹✨

@sabesanswaminathan 2 ай бұрын

With a simple harmonica, John Barry shows us how an unforgettable tune can be composed. Thats the genius of the great Barry.

@shaystern2453 2 ай бұрын

rare harmonica

@andystreet4022 4 жыл бұрын

First heard on my Dad's 8 Track in his Ford Capri in the 70s......stayed with me all my days and as I've grown older I appreciate the melancholy all the more. A beautiful, haunting slice of nostalgia.

@bigtony4829 3 жыл бұрын

Your Dad sounds pretty cool ..Driving a Capri and listening to this ....Your Dad basically was the Seventies

@punkrockredneck5563 3 жыл бұрын

Dude.... remember the slingshots ...playing football and risk

@moinmoin8311 3 жыл бұрын

@@couldbedodgy Never made it to a Capri, but my first car was a '73 Cortina with a tape deck... Boy, I sure do miss the 70's...

@bobphillips3222 3 жыл бұрын

Ford Capris and Chevy Vegas. That was a time. And then came along the Datsun 240Z!

@garygritter5701 3 жыл бұрын

I heard this when I was 7 in my dads Mk1 cortina and that was only 8 years ago so we’re still out there with the classic fords listening to great music 👍

@thefantasyreview8709 10 ай бұрын

John Barry was the god of movie soundtracks. Compare something like this to out of Africa, to the James Bond themes.

@sweetcaroline2060 2 ай бұрын

He's great. Like Henry Mancini. Love them both 💕.

@911Live-kn9fr Ай бұрын

And Lalo Schifrin !

@warrenwatkins9650 27 күн бұрын

Toots Thielman anybody?

@TheChev1946 20 күн бұрын

Ennio Morricone for me, but this is also fabulous

@mariec.9102 Жыл бұрын

Great movie. Great acting. Great music. This song and Nilsson's "Everybody's Talking at Me". But John Barry's harmonica playing is amazing, beautiful and sad at the same time.👍🏽🌹❤️

@michaelbabbitt3837 Жыл бұрын

So haunting a melody and with such an amazing delivery. Songs like this show us the beauty of the Divine even within sadness.

@jimskye7130 Жыл бұрын

Well said 💯👌

@asacarrick1385 Жыл бұрын

It's not a song

@michaelbabbitt3837 Жыл бұрын

@@asacarrick1385 A song doesn't have to have words - but it usually does. A song is also "Any musical composition." or "A song is a music piece that may contain words with melody and vocals or instrumentals without words. "

@wendyleewilliams1157 Жыл бұрын

So true. Exactly.

@ElizabethGS 9 ай бұрын

@@michaelbabbitt3837 thank you Michael. WELL said. I tried to explain to another person being equally as literal as 'one can play a song as an instrumental, no'? but yours is far better a description.

@anagram8 Жыл бұрын

Man that harmonica sound always seem to capture all of the human emotions at once; joy, pain, hope, torment, reverence, decadence you name it and John Barry captures it right here. I'm always torn between John Barry's version and my favorite harmonica player 'Toots' Thielemans version. Discussion anyone?

@ElizabethGS Жыл бұрын

@talkitover2099: John Barry wrote the music but he isn't playing it here. That's Tommy Reilly, a well-known classical English chromatic harmonica player seen in this clip and who was hired to play on the later-released vinyl record of Midnight Cowboy. I've NO idea why John Barry did not hire Jean 'Toots' Thielemans to record the album since HE was the one who played all of the harmonica in the entire Film - that sound which was so evocative and made so many of us fall in love with the characters and the Movie itself. I can only speculate that perhaps Toots was no longer available(?) and Tommy Reilly was (both John Barry and Tommy Reilly are Englishmen so it might well have been a matter of hiring the best in his own Country at the time if Toots wasn't available?) For MY money, it's Toots playing in the film which speaks to me far more - and when I watch clips from the film, especially that last 9 minute clip on the bus going to Miami. Heartbreaking - and the harmonica was just brilliantly played. I remember a hush broken only by tears and sobs in the Movie Theater where I first saw the film.

@Habu2 Жыл бұрын

I'll tell you what Talk it Over your summary gave me goose pimples when you said it captures all human emotions at once....I couldn't have put it better and the movie is off the scale

@Habu2 Жыл бұрын

@@ElizabethGS Yes Elizabeth it's hard to find a sadder and more moving section of a film when on the bus so near and yet so far from paradise. I suppose I can think of a similar sadness when Cher's son dies in the film 'Mask' (not quite sure of charecter names)

@anagram8 Жыл бұрын

Thank you@@Habu2 I appreciate it.

@ElizabethGS Жыл бұрын

@@Habu2 Habu2; while I thoroughly enjoyed TalkitOver's appreciation of the wonderful harmonica playing, Toots' playing wasn't a 'version' since he was the original player IN this incredible film and whose chromatic harmonica is heard through the entire soundtrack behind the characters we come to feel so deeply about. John didn't play harmonica. This is Tommy Reilly (in the video above) who is much better known as a classical harmonica player in the UK. I play chromatic harmonica and am part of this world so have come to know quite a bit about these wonderful players. Most of us think of our instrument as our 'other voice' and I think that's what it conveyed in the Film--a deeply felt 'voice' for Joe Buck and Rico I still feel Jean 'Toots' Thieleman's playing is so much more human and personal - he focused on jazz for most of his career, but could also play anything he put his mind to. Nevertheless, it was John Barry's score which allowed for all of this brilliance and emotion. I still find it astonishing that the FIRST ever X-rated Movie which wasn't expected to win since they refused to cut out a single scene to have it comply with 'regulations', was so loved and won Best Picture from the Academy, even when the producers/directors were on set in Britain (I believe) and decided not to attend since they were sure it couldn't possibly win. Quel surprise! :)

@gm1653 3 ай бұрын

LOVE!!!! Tommy Reilly’s perfection of this song. Could listen too all day long. Worlds BEST harmonica player!

@T.Z.M4N 2 ай бұрын

Its the best that I've heard.

@giovanna722 2 ай бұрын

@@T.Z.M4N It's not bad, but I wish Toots Thielemans had played it. Much more inventive.

@paulpurves484 Ай бұрын

@@giovanna722I’ve heard toots play this and it’s not a patch on Tommys.

@danielrussell446 Ай бұрын

What about Larry Adler

@illiamo7604 29 күн бұрын

@@paulpurves484 I think Toots is on the original soundtrack

@renatonunes2550 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic melody ! Beautifully played..One of the nicest harmonica songs ever. It brings it all back in my memory. The sadness of the story and the great performances by John Voigt and Dustin Hoffman.

@alanpeel3450 2 жыл бұрын

Sensational.

@eduardo_corrochio Жыл бұрын

Hear, hear. This movie captured loneliness and also friendship; the saddest thing was that when this lonely dude got a friend, the friend was taken away all too quickly.

@philippemullie9726 Жыл бұрын

C'est Toots Thielemans à l'harmonica et non John Barry !

@janflemmingolsen Жыл бұрын

Indeed 👍

@peetsnort Жыл бұрын

Especially Voight

@davidscott1052 3 жыл бұрын

I dont think any other instrument could have conveyed such melancholy as did the harmonica

@glendasmilesalot2959 5 жыл бұрын

I never get tired of listening to this!

@alinexavier8729 4 жыл бұрын

I'm too.

@robertcunningham8297 4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree,could listen to this piece of movie magic all day.🙋‍♂️

@gfoursux9 4 жыл бұрын

Amen

@lzlz-xv6oe 4 жыл бұрын

tooo

@alfredogomez5241 4 жыл бұрын

Same here

@RobertSmith-zi4cn 4 жыл бұрын

Whenever I’m feeling down I play this. Haunting close your eyes and listen I forget all my troubles. Fantastic I wish I could play the Harmonica

@sushiming7544 4 жыл бұрын

You can play the harmonica.

@RobertSmith-zi4cn 4 жыл бұрын

Sushi Ming. Sushi I’ve tried and I’m pathetic that harmonica from Toots is amazing. 😊

@JohnHolton 4 жыл бұрын

@@RobertSmith-zi4cn Toots was probably pathetic the first time he picked up a harmonica, too. The trick is to stick with it. Don't worry that you don't sound good now, just focus on the playing. Good luck!

@bencurry5295 4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnHolton hi there,this isn't my post but thank you John Holton,Onwards and upwards,god loves a trier (sp) if you dont know you're way there,ask someone on their way back, Your positivity has just boosted my morale,Im going to try and learn this too,Such a beautiful tune played so beautifully,Im just thinking to myself what an achievement to be able to play this,Fingers crossed 🥂

@Optics21 4 жыл бұрын

Buy yourself a fairly good one like a lee oskar and make sure you get your preferred key so it suits what you type of style you want to play, no point in getting a cheap harmonica you'll just wanna give up and fuhgeddaboudit. Best of luck peace

@orangescout1967 2 ай бұрын

Ladies and Gentlemen…..the great John Barry.

@wallacegeller2111 10 ай бұрын

This old Marine and retired Phoenix, Arizona Police Officer will have this played at my memorial service service when I cash in my chips.

@williamturner6366 4 ай бұрын

sir may you have many more years in front of you love from not so merrie england

@margaretjamieson3604 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for your Service to your Country. Let’s hope you have many years of Retirement still ahead of you. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

@jasperbeatnik9924 3 ай бұрын

I too wish you well. From a neighbor 150 miles to your north. Live on Cowboy.

@kramalerav 2 ай бұрын

I’d want Erik Estrada to sing at mine when I cash my CHiPs.

@peterbiesbroek 2 ай бұрын

Amen to that, ol'e pard. Thks for serving the nation..

@droppedbye.2698 5 жыл бұрын

Back in the Day this was the B movie to Midnight Express. This was the last Movie I took my Mother to. The harmonica score played by John Barry is beautiful yet haunting and forever in my memory as my Mother passed soon after. Still brings floods of tears to my eyes ! I'm now 51. RIP Mama.

@peterbrown6224 4 жыл бұрын

It's quite normal for you to miss your mother like that. I'm sure she'd be touched to know how much she's missed. This pain you feel? It's cool - most of us have it.

@Doors067 4 жыл бұрын

Never.2.Shabby moms are the best

@droppedbye.2698 4 жыл бұрын

@@peterbrown6224 ... I know that Peter x

@droppedbye.2698 4 жыл бұрын

@@Doors067 ... And always will be ! Dad's are OK !

@brianrodney712 4 жыл бұрын

The score was written by John Barry ( Prendergast ) but the harmonica was played by Tommy Reilly.

@tonyapthorpe1751 3 жыл бұрын

Only ever watched this film twice, it tells the tale of love and caring of another human being. So sad there isn't more of this nowadays.

@ms.annthrope415 2 ай бұрын

Much easier to have scripts calling for CGI explosions and violent fights than difficult themes in extreme limits of human existence, even in the dregs of society.

@Super_Chief Жыл бұрын

I remember hearing this song playing at a local movie theater back in the early 1970s while waiting for the movie to start. I had no idea where the song came from or what it was called, but it got stuck in my head and I remembered the song my entire life. Now here we are some 50 years later where technology makes it possible to whistle into your cellphone and Google Assistant will tell you the name of the song. Well, I tried doing that and it worked! Once I found out where the song came from, I learned how to play it on my harmonica. I don’t have a chromonica, but it can still be played on a diatonic harmonica (in the key of “C”) pretty well. You cannot believe the satisfaction it gave me to hear the tune that had haunted me my entire life to be coming out of my own mouth!

@woneymalian4513 Жыл бұрын

I feel you, man!! I still have a couple of these songs from childhood stuck in my head and not being able to find them so far! ... and I also learned to play this song in the harmonica, still the only song I know how to play at all!

@deborahwilcox5716 Жыл бұрын

Wow, beautiful story and song

@Newfoundmike Жыл бұрын

ITS HARD TO FIND a good HARMONICA NOWADAYS 😎✌️

@RO8s Жыл бұрын

@@Newfoundmike I've started using Easttop. They play really sweetly straight out of the box. Two-draw and three-draw are exactly as they should be at first play. They aren't expensive and the five-draw doesn't break in one set, like the last two Hohners I had. Have a look (you'll have to order them off the internet).

@ElizabethGS Жыл бұрын

@@Newfoundmike It really isn't What you might not know is that there is a huge harmonica world out there - all still playing, interacting and even sharing their music on the internet, on harmonica forums AND in person at Harmonica Conventions (yup). Both chromatic players and diatonic players get together once a year at SPAH (the Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica). This year's was held in Tulsa in August (I didn't go, but some of it was held on Zoom). Next year's will be back in St. Louis, Mo where it originated over 50 years ago. Players from around the World show up - including all the major manufacturers who bring their latest offerings. I have (at last count) over 100 instruments of all kinds but play mostly CX-12's in A (I'm partial to A) and now a Psardo Goldbar chromatic - a 16, also in A (it can be made in whatever key you wish). Harmonica players for the most part are pretty fantastic people --many still gig (Mickey Raphael still plays with Willie); Jon with Blues Traveler, Steve Tyler, Huey Lewis, Will Galison is among my top favourite chromatic jazz players here in NY. Robert Bonfiglio to me is one of the best classical chromatic players. Michal Adler in Israel (she's brilliant), Far too many to list here.

@kor3813 2 жыл бұрын

Hello all from Ukraine. Thanks for posting this masterpiece! Be happy everyone!

@jamesmonroe7903 5 жыл бұрын

It’s a good thing to have been alive when John Barry scored films! He did his job like no one else has-or EVER will! The Mozart of Motion Pictures!🎬

@joseosmirfiorelli2527 5 жыл бұрын

Perfect!

@jamesmonroe7903 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I agree with you 💯 percent! This tune IS perfection!👍👌

@wayneyoung2216 5 жыл бұрын

Well,the great man certainly lifted the black hole with the soundtrack to that,RIP John Barry,the master

@jamesmonroe7903 5 жыл бұрын

He most certainly did! Speaking of black holes,the great Mr.Barry scored the Disney sci-fi film from 1979-“The Black Hole”! He even scored the film many thought should have gone to a black hole instead of their local multiplexes-“Howard The 🦆 Duck”!!!

@wayneyoung2216 5 жыл бұрын

@@jamesmonroe7903 Thanks for that gem of information, I never knew that, I'm going to have to check that soundtrack now

@darthsalsapants7059 6 жыл бұрын

I feel sadness, but beauty all at the same time.

@nuil501 5 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I feel; I watched this movies when it was released, in 69;

@peterbrown6224 4 жыл бұрын

@@nuil501 Wow - you too. Though I was way too small to see it til the 80s.

@nuil501 4 жыл бұрын

@@peterbrown6224 I was minor at that time, watched the movie with my sister...

@peterbrown6224 4 жыл бұрын

@@nuil501 Awkward. But with you, sneaking into films. We were outlaws :-)

@nuil501 4 жыл бұрын

@@peterbrown6224 hahaha , yeap

@isabelcoates2759 2 жыл бұрын

He wrote such beautiful music. A real treasure.

@Melissa-jj2zn 22 күн бұрын

Yes a sublime antidote to the horrors of the modern day world. We are wonderful l, powerful beings! Never lose sight of that! Praise the Lord! X

@PinkyPuff69 5 жыл бұрын

Such a wistful sound. It’s sweet and sad all at once.

@joseosmirfiorelli2527 5 жыл бұрын

That's it!

@Mynamesalexa 4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Sharon Tate

@mariamcdermott4159 4 жыл бұрын

Yes so true . Wistful and plaintive sound . The film doesn't measure up to the music at all . same with the film The Graduate .

@mariamcdermott4159 4 жыл бұрын

beautifully haunting melody , sad and melancholy and a sense of nostalgia for lost youth , lost childhood and lost INNOCENCE .

@PinkyPuff69 4 жыл бұрын

maria mcdermott Yep. Just beautiful.

@0live0wire0 5 жыл бұрын

Easily one of the best themes ever written for film. It's interesting how Barry used pretty much the same melodic and harmonic sequence in You only live twice (tonic, going to the relative minor bVII chord, hence the "bittersweet sound"). He really liked the sound and it's pretty effective obviously.

@dynamicdave2647 3 жыл бұрын

This melody goes well with harry nilsons everyones talking at me

@snowngeorgia 3 жыл бұрын

One of the most underrated musical instruments of all time...not one other could have evoked the true sentiment of that song..

@ElizabethGS 9 ай бұрын

Well - IN the Film, Jean 'Toots' Thielemans was the brilliant harmonica player (using a chromatic harmonica). Above, the player (on the studio-released album) is Tommy Reilly. John Barry WROTE the score, but didn't play the harmonica either in the film or on the record/cd. To me, Toots is the one who made the song so evocative. The second those first notes begin, you're taken right back into Ratso Rizzo and Joe Buck's gritty NYC world.

@ElizabethGS 9 ай бұрын

@snowngeorgia: AND, (I meant to add this earlier), you've just expressed what most of us in the harmonica world feel about our instrument: that it IS a most under appreciated instrument which speaks volumes. Since coming back to playing it 21yrs ago) I now hear it everywhere on songs and tunes. The latest version of 'Ain't No Sunshine' featuring Ruben Studdard (an early American Idol winner) on vocals and a terrific guitarist whose name I'm blanking, features wonderful chromatic harmonica, so I wrote to ask his name: Pat Levett. Give it a listen on youtube...SO well done. :)

@LaserGuidedWhitehaus Жыл бұрын

Music is wonderful, isn't it? Something so simple can be so effective, and stir emotions that last forever.

@billymcmonagle949 6 жыл бұрын

John Barry musical genius

@arepitagrande8797 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@MrDavey2010 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@smotnick 4 жыл бұрын

He was better than Williams.

@paulholmes8887 3 жыл бұрын

👍

@grahamhill8018 3 жыл бұрын

One of the few composers that is right at the top of the tree. Only eclipsed by Hans Zimmer.... Just

@dianneb61 3 жыл бұрын

To actually see John Barry perform this..wow..a time machine to the past. I love KZfaq.

@XeroBase69 2 жыл бұрын

That’s Tommy Reilly playing - Barry was the composer

@map3384 2 жыл бұрын

This musical gem fits in with a time long passed when life wasn’t so over burden with expedience.

@luismiguelgarronrevaliente51 Жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful piece of music. Goes so well with the final scene of Midnight Cowboy ❤️

@taroman7100 Жыл бұрын

Haunting

@jameswalton3930 8 ай бұрын

Naive Joe Buck and unloved Dominic "Ratso" Rizzo , unforgettable score,performances and movie period.

@simonalex100 4 жыл бұрын

Really sad and poignant end to a great film and the music’s a perfect accompaniment . Tear jerking and a tune that really gets to your soul when you’re feeling fed up with the world. Genius John Barry

@carpenter284 4 жыл бұрын

We lost a musical genius the day John Barry passed away , rest in peace sir

@delbertmain8907 3 жыл бұрын

Great piece of music 1969 right there

@vladdahora3690 3 жыл бұрын

Música que marcou o final de uma década esplendorosa, O filme foi perfeito, atores maravilhosos, saudade.

@michaelkiernan3558 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@simoncarlile1965 2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree,listen to the Dances with wolves soundtrack.Breathtakingly beautiful.

@rondeneef 2 жыл бұрын

great composer man

@Reggie-The-Dog 2 ай бұрын

Thank you God for giving us John Barry.

@gamingtonight1526 3 жыл бұрын

Nothing like this exists any more. We've lost it....

@meljen8592 17 күн бұрын

No, we haven’t lost it ,you just have to look for it,I can assure you it’s there.

@richardlawson4317 4 жыл бұрын

Takes me back to 1969. I wish I could stay there.

@polmartin14 4 жыл бұрын

Me too... 🙁

@marilynhudson9879 4 жыл бұрын

Me too. I wish it was possible.

@cordoba1952 3 жыл бұрын

I remember vividly when I saw this movie for first Time in Argentina over 50 years ago, I terribly miss that Time.

@davidlittlewood8850 3 жыл бұрын

Richard Lawson me too brother great times.

@justMe-rd4sw 3 жыл бұрын

Yup👌💔

@pings17 5 жыл бұрын

😢A tear jerker for sure, haunting melody. Sends you adrift. The way a great instrumental should. Midnight Cowboy Soundtrack is a masterpiece.....

@christinea9676 4 жыл бұрын

pings17 Beautifully said.

@hoorootv1 2 ай бұрын

The 1970s was the best time in my life. I was born in 1965, I am 58 years old, I never saw the film, but this instrumental was played on the radio every day back in the 1970s ❗️

@bl75025 2 жыл бұрын

All I can say is WOW! Most beautiful harmonica playing I ever heard.

@Ron71997 3 жыл бұрын

the harmonica is heart breaking in this music, no words yet I feel the pain...beautiful!!

@micheleplouffe2343 4 жыл бұрын

I cry everytime I listen to this... The expression and compassion that he played this song, is hauntingly beautiful.

@demetriusdavis4775 3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you

@mykelgreene911 3 жыл бұрын

No more tears..

@carletoncandis635 3 жыл бұрын

I'm all cried off

@kaduoliveira2726 2 жыл бұрын

i was 13 years old....wonderful age

@micheleplouffe2343 2 жыл бұрын

@@kaduoliveira2726 I was 14☺️

@j.edward4379 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely one of the top 5 movie pieces.

@Maffeiminimal 2 жыл бұрын

Few harp notes on few chords sequences became a part of music history. Simply wonderful.

@randymudge7435 3 жыл бұрын

John Barry's face looks like it has the sum total of all our life experience in it. What a masterpiece! I've never seen anyone play a harmonica like that, as if it were 3 or 4 instruments instead of one. Anyone who was around when the Midnight Cowboy movie came out will never forget this song or the feelings it stirs inside of us.

@osbornebay944 3 жыл бұрын

True, the feeling gets stronger in this Covid time.....

@pflynn581 2 жыл бұрын

Not John Barry playing the harmonica in this clip although he composed it.

@guyvoet8950 2 жыл бұрын

The Harmonicaplayer you hear ( and don't see in this clip) is in fact the famous Belgian jazz musician Jean 'Toots' Thielemans !

@MissileGuidance 2 жыл бұрын

The person in video is Tommy Reilly 😁

@wesmarshall8137 2 жыл бұрын

It's certainly not John Barry, and though I believe Toots (one of the greatest jazz improvisers in all of jazz history) recorded the soundtrack version, it sure doesn't look or sound like Toots here. I am guessing Mr. Mercer knows his harmonicats.

@gehanoates294 2 жыл бұрын

Barry was a true genius of music. I love this tune. The power of music to keep you calm, that's what this tune does to me.

@luispulido5173 2 ай бұрын

Yes, there's magic in the harmonica, beautiful performance !

@sscbkr48 Жыл бұрын

I love this plaintive piece.. Optimism and despair sharing the same journey.

@Habu2 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful description....thank you.

@Turrican60 4 жыл бұрын

One of the very few - if only - pieces of music that both soothes and enriches the soul, yet quite contrarily also leaves one feeling saddened and pining for inner peace. To achieve such a feat, this is far more than a contemporary classic - it's the pinnacle of musical genius. Thank you, John, for such a wonderfully haunting, but beautifully philosophical composition quite unlike any other.

@mpwedwards7 2 жыл бұрын

So very well put. This song has haunted me with a strange profound beauty since my childhood

@tedgarland5004 2 жыл бұрын

Very very well put!!!

@bdeblier 2 жыл бұрын

Thank Toots Thielemans, the actual musician playing the harmonica here. John Barry was the composer.

@dinghyyoung 2 жыл бұрын

This man is a genius

@Turrican60 Жыл бұрын

@@bdeblier It seems you misunderstood what I was saying. I purposely chose the word "COMPOSITION" when thanking John Barry because I'm well aware that he's responsible for composing this iconic piece of music. Put another way, the real magic lies in the musical brilliance of its creator...which was what my message was intended to convey all along. Incidentally, that's not Toots Thielemans playing the harmonica here - it's Tommy Reilly.

@sony3694 5 жыл бұрын

A tear drop in the vocal cord so-to-speak, in John, playing the harmonica, a pain in in the chest, of someone losing a loved one, as portrayed in the movie, or sad memories, sad, and yet somber, and beautiful, all at the same time..almost unbreatheable, makes you just want to cry...not to take snything and or anyone for granted. Life is too short..Treat everyone, as if it was the last day. Because you may not see that person tomorrow...

@KurtAlfemberg 4 жыл бұрын

TRUE... SO TRUE!

@morganplatt6762 4 жыл бұрын

It's Tommy Riley playing the harmonica here.

@benji.B-side 4 жыл бұрын

Well said, so true!!

@TraderK1836 2 жыл бұрын

A beautiful melody played with such feeling that you can't help but be taken back to our youth when we fist heard this. Ahhh the power of music!

@davegavin9724 11 ай бұрын

I remember this being played in the 70s in a restaurant in Coventry called Oaklahoma... a western themed restaurant...just some classic tunes stick in your mind I guess

@kcsnow9447 3 жыл бұрын

A harmonica brings your soul out from wherever you hide it. Even if no one but you knows it's come out into the light.

@davidtaysom3592 5 жыл бұрын

I love this tune,so sad but inspirational.i searched for it for almost 30 years and did not know where it came from.wheñ I got a computer I rediscovered it.what a joy to finally find and know what it is .this is a great example of what the internet can do.thankyou.

@phillipecook3227 5 жыл бұрын

The internet isn't so bad after all....

@stechriswillgil3686 3 жыл бұрын

You wouldn’t think music could have such power to convey so much emotion in just a few minutes. This is the sound of the 60s ending; a bittersweet farewell to the most beautiful decade of the 20th Century. ‘ That is the land of lost content , I see it shining plain, The happy highways that I went , And cannot come again ..’

@soumei812 Ай бұрын

映画もこの曲も全部好きです。大切な青春の1ページそのものです。

@Sameoldfitup 3 жыл бұрын

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams

@jimicmore1895 3 жыл бұрын

I've thought of that as well, enjoy the moment it will be a memory NOW

@davidjadunath1262 3 жыл бұрын

And of all ironies, his life would end by accidental asphyxiation, when a medicine bottle cap fell into his throat.

@christophedallaporta8836 3 жыл бұрын

@@davidjadunath1262 what a terrible way to die! Trying to help yourself turns into killing yourself, sometimes. Just like people paying too much attention to their safety who end up run over crossing a street. The fact is our brains are not designed to concentrate on one single goal all of the time, it has to wander about enentually. Inattention being friend with danger... It goes boom!! 💣

@perezfecto 3 жыл бұрын

My mind is travelling through time and space without moving. It's incredible what a bunch of notes can do.

@Seagull-sq4wh Жыл бұрын

Haunting music evocative of a bygone time of which I was privileged to be part of

@wix7657 3 ай бұрын

John Barry was a genius!

@brendanclements5194 4 жыл бұрын

I have never heard anyone play the mouth organ so beautifully...

@wonderfulwino4265 4 жыл бұрын

The greatest your sister joke setup ever!.

@mikedev492 2 жыл бұрын

Check out Larry Adller

@aqueoushumour4504 3 жыл бұрын

Utterly beautiful.

@jocargua Жыл бұрын

Sublime..!!!!! I got to this, because of a Mike Patton´s live performance of a Melodica instrument, for Midnight Cowboy song . God Blesses my ears and soul, for listening this wonders..!!!!

@hd3434paddles3636 2 жыл бұрын

absolutely haunting and so beautiful, now that is talented writing.

@TATOIANENTERPRISES 5 жыл бұрын

Brings me back 35 years ago to my days spent in NYC walking the streets with my buddies.

@edreid7872 5 жыл бұрын

Every time I hit Times square, specifically 42nd Street...this plays in my head..

@irishshark 4 жыл бұрын

So cool. I can see this memory of yours in my mind

@TATOIANENTERPRISES 4 жыл бұрын

@Griffith Williams Unfortunately you're correct (

@damiendavisisraelcom8603 3 жыл бұрын

What a tune, there's no words for this, none.

@brianligat9493 2 жыл бұрын

Singing would spoil it.

@damiendavisisraelcom8603 2 жыл бұрын

@@brianligat9493 no I mean I have no words for a tune this good

@stanmo4331 7 күн бұрын

I honestly hadn't seen a harmonica in decades, much less heard one used in such a beautiful solo. Takes life to a simpler time... Thanks for posting.

@shawnmcculley2995 2 жыл бұрын

Beyond beautiful. Period. End of discussion!!!

@CosmicStargoat 7 жыл бұрын

Wonderful. One of my favorite movies and this score....just WOW! Respect.

@billgordon6489 4 жыл бұрын

Ruthless, in my top 3, for reference the other two are One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and the Big Lebowski 👍🏻

@euanelliott3613 4 жыл бұрын

Images of a disillusioned Jon Voigt and a sick Dustin Hoffman in the film. An iconic slice of life in 1969.

@dynamitedave1438 2 жыл бұрын

Me too :-)

@wolston2799 9 күн бұрын

I think its amazing watching an artist like this deliver a performance like that, honestly makes life so immersively pleasurable.

@ronhamilton2394 3 жыл бұрын

I love this, its always amazing to me how this bites down hard on my heart, the connection between John Barry's score and John and Dustin's scene is just beautiful, for him to have created this is testament to the real emotions coming off that screen, you don't see that in many films these days, I cant find the words other than wonderful.

@Seasider70 3 жыл бұрын

Life is better because of John Barry.

@peterwaldie4478 5 жыл бұрын

This is why you tube works. Genius harmonica playing ...cheers

@race2run 4 жыл бұрын

absolutely beautiful....entire song is awesome...yea...yea.....

@chickey333 2 жыл бұрын

The music and the movie was an absolutely perfect match.

@Habu2 Жыл бұрын

Yes chickey couldn't agree more.....perfection.

@jamesreynolds2190 2 жыл бұрын

Reassuringly flawless in this chaotic world.

@vivasangabriele1608 4 жыл бұрын

Days of great tenderness and great emotions. The 70’s. Thank you Sir Barry. From a 1966 born.

@stevegraham8368 4 жыл бұрын

Take note would be pop stars of 2019 and beyond...this is what u call TALENT.

@berniewoods8758 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@jala1081 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah but nah, it's pretty talented what music producers can compose on their computers as well, the computers their instrument and computers introduced thousands of never before used in music sounds.

@deangarside5433 4 жыл бұрын

@@jala1081 true

@berniewoods8758 4 жыл бұрын

@@jala1081 back then they were musicians who didn't depend on computers . Then it was talent now its fake

@jala1081 4 жыл бұрын

They depended on their instruments. It takes talent to make a song on a computer. Compositional talent for one. Plus I love the new sounds. I'm kind of bored of the regular old instruments' sounds'. (Excuse the grammar.) Guitar, trombone, trumpet etc. Enough songs have been made with those instruments for decades. Imo the sounds are kind of boring now.

@josephcomuniello964 9 ай бұрын

Loved this song, “ think of Midnight Cowboy”!!!! days of ole went by in a blink of an eye!!!!😢

@Giavani-wq7gb 2 жыл бұрын

One of the most hauntingly beautiful melodies, summing up an entire decade and allowing me to move into the future. Slow down and enjoy the ride.

@frankmacias7016 4 жыл бұрын

Longing to shake my insides, reminds me of my grandfather who played this tune with the harmonica, like when he was 16 and played with Greeks and Italians in ships and trains (1928), he was of those good-natured types, good people, cheerful, joker, optimistic and creative of those that everyone wants to have next door, unforgettable, he played many times for me when I was 5 years old, RIP Daddy 7-10-2008.

@joannewalker4232 3 жыл бұрын

Sublime.........Midnight cowboy, one of the best films ever made, I often listen to the soundtrack, a sort of heart breaking beauty unparalleled by todays film makers.