Midnight Cowboy: Music From The Motion Picture

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Midnight Cowboy often seems to be exploiting its material for sensational or comic effect, but it is ultimately a moving experience that captures the quality of a time and a place.

The thematic lyrics were supplied by the American record producer Jack Gold (1921-92), who is not to be confused with the British film director of the same name. Renowned British composer John Barry, who had already won three Oscars in 1969, appeared under the credit of “Music Supervisor,” but also composed a series of original cues and supervised the entire musical concept of the film, along with legendary American producer Phil Ramone.Be forewarned that on the soundtrack, “Everybody’s Talkin’” is a different version than the single that hit the Top 10. Quartet Records, in collaboration with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Capitol Records, Universal Music Enterprises and the Phil Ramone estate, present an expanded 2-CD edition of the iconic score for the landmark film Midnight Cowboy, directed by John Schlesinger in 1969, starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, and winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. A motif featured three times throughout the New York scenes was the sign at the top of the facade of the Mutual of New York (MONY) Building at 1740 Broadway.

Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher first met as children whilst attending the Juilliard School and in 1947 they launched a full-time concert career.

in which Tony Curtis and Roger Moore were paired as wealthy playboys investigating crimes that the police can't solve.

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. Michael Sarrazin, who was Schlesinger's first choice, was cast as Joe Buck, only to be fired when unable to gain release from his contract with Universal. The final product may be more ambitious than it should be, and yet, that ambition leads to enough inspiration to make this drama a rewarding one which transcends its minimalism to hit big, although not effective aspects are grand. At the 42nd Academy Awards, the film won three awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.Even though I'm not watching the movie while listening to this album, I can feel the character progression just through the notes, and that's enough for me to recommend it, not to mention the vocal track selections that portray the differences between all the "cliques" that inhabited New York at the time, and the ambient work from John Barry, the soundtrack's composer, are spectacular. At the end of the film there is redemption of sorts for Buck, even though he beats a man to death, but not for the seriously ill Ratso, who dies on the bus journey to Florida where the two had planned to make a new life for themselves.

Much darker than I would have anticipated, showing the underbelly of the city, between drugs, sickness, and sex, the film earns its rating (at least for the era) and encapsulates a generation all while entertaining. Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt from the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. More than five years after its theatrical release, Midnight Cowboy premiered on television on November 3, 1974.Schlesinger as an Englishman and an outsider is not too impressed with America or Americans and delivers an honest and scathing denouement, but neither are we impressed with the hallucinatory flash with which he tells his tale. It is tough and good in important ways, although its style is oddly romantic and at variance with the laconic material. Back on the bus, Joe muses that there must be an easier way to make money than hustling and tells Rico he will get a regular job in Florida. On Disc 2 we have included the music (both songs and score) as it appears in the film, mastered from mono elements vaulted at MGM. Although the cuts were approved by director John Schlesinger, critic Kay Gardella of the New York Daily News stated the film was "hacked up pretty badly.