One of the true classics of the American Cinema.And the theme song is also a classic in it's own Right. R.I.P. Ray Charles and Rod Steiger the original Chief Gillespie.
RIP Norman Jewison, the filmmaker who made this movie. He just passed away a couple of weeks ago. Sad to see a great generation pass away with Poitier and Jewison.
I'd say it does, especially the version from the tv series is pretty popular. It's definitely a beloved song whether sung by Ray Charles or Bill Champlain. The song is masterful!
One of my favourite films! Ray Charles sets the films mood immediately, as a Gulf Mobile and Ohio Rairoad EMD-built E7 locomotive headlight breaks the darkness of night and rolls under the camera.The Academy level acting performances by Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier are outstanding! I must have watched this film 15 or 20 times. It's on my top 10 list for sure.
@@RailPreserver2K The GM&O E7 is gone and likely the old Station too. The GM&O line was i think somewhere near Dolton, IL where The UP (ex-C&EI) is and where the Freight train scene was shot with the Bridge above
@@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp after doing some research apparently the station in Sparta where they did most of the filming for the train scenes still exists as an art museum
Did you notice when Gillespie is chewing his gum (he feels in control). When you see him STOP Chewing all of a sudden ... it is because he has just learned something new from Virgil Tibbs that he did not see coming! The film is full of great little moments like that.
At the film's beginning, it is made to look like the train is passing through a rural area in the deep south. If what I am told is correct, it is actually pulling out of St. Louis. It was an overnight mail/passenger train that ran to Chicago. Sparta is actually a relatively short distance from this site and is in Illinois. Even though it was Midwestern, it had enough of a southern feel and appearance to pass off as a Mississippi town.
There are plenty areas in the heartland of Pennsylvania I am told that are very Southern. The southernmost reaches of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio are just the South over the border. Practically, there are inner city areas all over the East, Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest that are as Southern in texture as red beans and rice and fried chicken.
Classic opening credits with the iconic Ray Charles killing it! Hard to choose between this version and Bill Champlin's version from the tv series. Both are so damn good and soulful though Ray's is the OG and does have more of a churchy feel with the organ which I like but Bill's has a bit more power in the vocals, especially in the last "IN THE HEEEEEEATTT OF THE NIIIIIIIGHT!"
Ummmmm, no comparison between Ray and Champlin. Ray fugging killed it. Champlin was a mere pretender. I know it's all opinion, but my vote is a thousand times for Ray. Bruh was fiyah!
@@thegodblogger3812 Pretender's a little harsh don't you think? No need to disrespect the man. Champlain did a very good job following Ray better than anyone else would've. That said I agree that Ray was pure fiyah and definitely killed this song in that Ray Charles way.
I agree with you. There are many moments like that in the film that you catch after viewing the movie a few times. Like Did you notice when Gillespie is chewing his gum (he feels in control). When you see him STOP all of a sudden ... it is because he has just learned something new that he did not see coming!
American had problems in the 1960’s (that’s a serious understatement), but it’s incredible that at that time everything was more powerful and high quality. A best picture winner was a movie that actually had incredible acting and talent rather than a vapid art film no one has seen and black excellence meant good acting and a moving story rather than some rappers twerking and whining about their lives.
This is the version of the song used for the movie title sequence. There's another version - with a blistering sax intro. - on the first record I ever bought, which was a compilation of Ray Charles's Greatest Hits. Compare it here (I prefer it!): th-cam.com/video/gUulr8w3FPY/w-d-xo.html
"You don't think Sparta would let them film there?" No offense playah but there is no Sparta Mississippi. Fictional town. Was filmed in Sparta, Illinois
R.I.P. Norman Jewison
One of Ray Charles greatest. For an iconic and ground-breaking film, it needed to be
I agree. The song sets the mood of the film from the get go!
One of the true classics of the American Cinema.And the theme song is also a classic in it's own Right. R.I.P. Ray Charles and Rod Steiger the original Chief Gillespie.
Amen
RIP Sidney Poitier!
RIP, Sidney Poitier, and thank you for giving us Virgil Tibbs.
The black Sherlock Holmes. Just as brilliant but even smoother and cooler.
"They call me ... Mr. Tibbs."
RIP Norman Jewison, the filmmaker who made this movie. He just passed away a couple of weeks ago. Sad to see a great generation pass away with Poitier and Jewison.
I agree that this is one of the great movies of all time. Drama,suspense,intrigue and Mr. Tibbs figures it all out.
Greatest Ray Charles song and one of the greatest songs ever. Funnily enough it does not seem to enjoy such a high reputation!!
I'd say it does, especially the version from the tv series is pretty popular. It's definitely a beloved song whether sung by Ray Charles or Bill Champlain. The song is masterful!
that organ is sounding soooo churchy and i love it
Of course, it's Billy Preston!
IT GIVES ME THE CHILLS EVERYTIME IT COMES ON
I've got them now.
@@mattjahnke239 oh yeah
Hits you like a ton of bricks! The tv show version does for me too.
The legendary Carol Kaye on bass. Love ya Carol!
I almost get tears in my eyes this will forever my Grandmas Theme song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of my favourite films! Ray Charles sets the films mood immediately, as a Gulf Mobile and Ohio Rairoad EMD-built E7 locomotive headlight breaks the darkness of night and rolls under the camera.The Academy level acting performances by Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier are outstanding! I must have watched this film 15 or 20 times. It's on my top 10 list for sure.
agree 100% william excellent movie for it's time
Wonder if the equipment and the depot still exist
@@RailPreserver2K The GM&O E7 is gone and likely the old Station too. The GM&O line was i think somewhere near Dolton, IL where The UP (ex-C&EI) is and where the Freight train scene was shot with the Bridge above
@@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp after doing some research apparently the station in Sparta where they did most of the filming for the train scenes still exists as an art museum
@@RailPreserver2K Great to hear! However "Sparta" is not a real city. as the filming was done in Illinois AFAIK (I could be wrong sir) :-)
Did you notice when Gillespie is chewing his gum (he feels in control). When you see him STOP Chewing all of a sudden ... it is because he has just learned something new from Virgil Tibbs that he did not see coming! The film is full of great little moments like that.
RIP Baba Ray Charles and Baba Sidney Poitier
what an opening to a truly great film Music no longer plays a significant role in movies today
曲・映画・時代・雰囲気、すべてがかっこいい。
This film is one of the favorite movies!
This song is one of the favorite songs!
moi aussi
Yes indeed!
Agreed!
The movie that started it all!!! lol
At the film's beginning, it is made to look like the train is passing through a rural area in the deep south. If what I am told is correct, it is actually pulling out of
St. Louis. It was an overnight mail/passenger train that ran to Chicago.
Sparta is actually a relatively short distance from this site and is in Illinois. Even though it was Midwestern, it had enough of a southern feel and appearance to pass off as a Mississippi town.
You are basically correct
Sparta, Illinois was used for location because it was deemed too dangerous to film in Sparta, Georgia by the producers
The movie train scenes were filmed on the C&EI (Now UP), and GM&O (IC) lines near Dolton, IL.
You're correct that locations can be called one thing and be another sometimes. Southern Illinois looks very rural and Southern in some areas.
There are plenty areas in the heartland of Pennsylvania I am told that are very Southern. The southernmost reaches of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio are just the South over the border. Practically, there are inner city areas all over the East, Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest that are as Southern in texture as red beans and rice and fried chicken.
I love this show....
Are we talking the movie, or the TV show?
Classic opening credits with the iconic Ray Charles killing it! Hard to choose between this version and Bill Champlin's version from the tv series. Both are so damn good and soulful though Ray's is the OG and does have more of a churchy feel with the organ which I like but Bill's has a bit more power in the vocals, especially in the last "IN THE HEEEEEEATTT OF THE NIIIIIIIGHT!"
Ummmmm, no comparison between Ray and Champlin. Ray fugging killed it. Champlin was a mere pretender. I know it's all opinion, but my vote is a thousand times for Ray. Bruh was fiyah!
@@thegodblogger3812 Pretender's a little harsh don't you think? No need to disrespect the man. Champlain did a very good job following Ray better than anyone else would've. That said I agree that Ray was pure fiyah and definitely killed this song in that Ray Charles way.
Nobody could have done this better
I love how the music is timed to the flashing of the railroad crossings.
that was one of my favorite Movie, Rod Steiger with the Chewingum in the mouth - no forget. And Sidney once more a top-man as in The Schakal
Quincy Jones Produced The Theme Songs For Both The Film & The Series!
Awesome!
I had no idea that Ray Charles song this theme song....wow.....cool....
Yolanda Hines
He also sang the theme for "The Cincinnati Kid" as well.
Fu così che ho scoperto il grande Ray ❤️
No me canso de verla
Fantastique reste un de mes préférés
Another take I love it hot ! :)
Very good
2:07 This is a really amazing editing trick
I agree with you. There are many moments like that in the film that you catch after viewing the movie a few times. Like Did you notice when Gillespie is chewing his gum (he feels in control). When you see him STOP all of a sudden ... it is because he has just learned something new that he did not see coming!
@@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp Their eye movements were telling the story too, brilliant.
Rato charles , maestro de maestros,
Sensational
僕はこの歌がすきです。
This series was first shot. in Hammond, Lousiana then Covington,
Georgia, just sayin'
Tomas Salazar the TV show was shot in those towns, not the movie
No the movie, the show
It was filmed in Illinois near Dolton, IL
No me canso de verla. Debo acudir al médico?
RIP Quincy
i don't think Sparta would let them film there at that time
mr.ray charles in the spotlight. (r.i.p.)
RIP Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger and Norman Jewison
American had problems in the 1960’s (that’s a serious understatement), but it’s incredible that at that time everything was more powerful and high quality. A best picture winner was a movie that actually had incredible acting and talent rather than a vapid art film no one has seen and black excellence meant good acting and a moving story rather than some rappers twerking and whining about their lives.
Quincy Jones is a true genius.
The movie was better than the TV show.
I disagree but the movie is a classic though.
Never saw the movie before only knew about the tv show
Whats the name of this movie
It's an old television show titled In the heat of the night
Tuesdays only - morning train to Memphis.
If the murder happened on a Monday - the whole world would have been different...
I’m 13 and I must say Ray fucked that mic up 😂
high-pitched
This is the version of the song used for the movie title sequence. There's another version - with a blistering sax intro. - on the first record I ever bought, which was a compilation of Ray Charles's Greatest Hits. Compare it here (I prefer it!):
th-cam.com/video/gUulr8w3FPY/w-d-xo.html
"You don't think Sparta would let them film there?" No offense playah but there is no Sparta Mississippi. Fictional town. Was filmed in Sparta, Illinois
Taylor Webb actually there is a Sparta Mississippi it's in Chickasaw county 😀
Sparta is real, Foolio.
1:27
I wonder if he was high when he recorded this 😂
I wonder if you were high when you wrote this dumb comment.