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  • @rubinmendoza13
    @rubinmendoza13 ปีที่แล้ว +871

    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
      @michaelmelling9333 ปีที่แล้ว +39

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

    • @taroman7100
      @taroman7100 ปีที่แล้ว +37

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

    • @deisebosco8036
      @deisebosco8036 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @elizabethwheatman8526
      @elizabethwheatman8526 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

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

    • @suzmik
      @suzmik 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      I absolutely love this comment! So very true.

  • @maxb4074
    @maxb4074 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    The 1960's were a dream.

  • @luismiguelgarronrevaliente7628
    @luismiguelgarronrevaliente7628 3 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    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
      @denniskelley8974 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @robertwood574
      @robertwood574 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      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.

  • @rkmklz7562
    @rkmklz7562 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +158

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

    • @bgaineshunter
      @bgaineshunter 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @T.Z.M4N
      @T.Z.M4N 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      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
      @donspartan9414 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I’m with you. Great times and memories.

    • @michaelbrian219
      @michaelbrian219 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      A great time to be in your teens.

    • @youngyeller
      @youngyeller 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @allsorts9909
    @allsorts9909 ปีที่แล้ว +367

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

    • @closetstarwarsfreak
      @closetstarwarsfreak 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

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

    • @degreuneful
      @degreuneful 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      More then a genius....

    • @adminkidd
      @adminkidd 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @tomstamford6837
      @tomstamford6837 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      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
      @alfredogomez5241 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are correct

  • @orangescout1967
    @orangescout1967 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    Ladies and Gentlemen…..the great John Barry.

  • @Nautilus1972
    @Nautilus1972 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    John Barry - Genius.

  • @thom6746
    @thom6746 ปีที่แล้ว +102

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

    • @Habu2
      @Habu2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Great description

    • @The1976spirit
      @The1976spirit ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @michaelcummingsherrera1232
    @michaelcummingsherrera1232 3 ปีที่แล้ว +530

    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
      @elifoust7664 ปีที่แล้ว +33

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

    • @manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069
      @manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Fair play mate , you made it 🍺

    • @Just2HepCats
      @Just2HepCats ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @brettwells66
      @brettwells66 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      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
      @traceydarcy6528 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Lovely musical memories that will last a life time Michael

  • @donhosmer8159
    @donhosmer8159 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

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

  • @j.edward4379
    @j.edward4379 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Absolutely one of the top 5 movie pieces.

  • @wix7657
    @wix7657 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    John Barry was a genius!

  • @gm1653
    @gm1653 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

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

    • @T.Z.M4N
      @T.Z.M4N หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its the best that I've heard.

    • @giovanna722
      @giovanna722 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

    • @paulpurves484
      @paulpurves484 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @voiceguy3635
    @voiceguy3635 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

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

  • @gamingtonight1526
    @gamingtonight1526 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @adelinas.7335
    @adelinas.7335 3 ปีที่แล้ว +855

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

    • @tedherrala611
      @tedherrala611 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @tedherrala611
      @tedherrala611 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      This song get my emotional

    • @rhubarbd2003
      @rhubarbd2003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      100%

    • @craigezell4261
      @craigezell4261 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      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
      @teresamartin4735 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I agree!

  • @sabesanswaminathan
    @sabesanswaminathan หลายเดือนก่อน +44

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

    • @shaystern2453
      @shaystern2453 หลายเดือนก่อน

      rare harmonica

  • @richardlawson4317
    @richardlawson4317 3 ปีที่แล้ว +491

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

    • @polmartin14
      @polmartin14 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Me too... 🙁

    • @marilynhudson9879
      @marilynhudson9879 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Me too. I wish it was possible.

    • @cordoba1952
      @cordoba1952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

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

    • @davidlittlewood8850
      @davidlittlewood8850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Richard Lawson me too brother great times.

    • @justMe-rd4sw
      @justMe-rd4sw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yup👌💔

  • @LaserGuidedWhitehaus
    @LaserGuidedWhitehaus 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

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

  • @Reggie-The-Dog
    @Reggie-The-Dog 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +27

    Thank you God for giving us John Barry.

  • @neils1952
    @neils1952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +787

    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
      @thethe6232 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

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

    • @holgerwagner5777
      @holgerwagner5777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      It needs more music like this and people like you.

    • @johnquinn7401
      @johnquinn7401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I want to laearn

    • @johnquinn7401
      @johnquinn7401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      How to learn harmooicc

    • @mariaalano3077
      @mariaalano3077 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @aqueoushumour4504
    @aqueoushumour4504 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Utterly beautiful.

  • @chonacabrera5040
    @chonacabrera5040 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

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

  • @DSAK55
    @DSAK55 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    When Midnight Cowboy first came out, it was rated XXX

    • @johnprovince5304
      @johnprovince5304 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The 50s lasted well into the 60s. Decades don't unfold in neat uniformed little packages.

  • @wallacegeller2111
    @wallacegeller2111 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +121

    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
      @williamturner6366 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

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

    • @margaretjamieson3604
      @margaretjamieson3604 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @jasperbeatnik9924
      @jasperbeatnik9924 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @kramalerav
      @kramalerav หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @peterbiesbroek
      @peterbiesbroek หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @mariec.9102
    @mariec.9102 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    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.👍🏽🌹❤️

  • @thefantasyreview8709
    @thefantasyreview8709 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

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

    • @sweetcaroline2060
      @sweetcaroline2060 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

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

  • @luispulido5173
    @luispulido5173 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

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

  • @jimakalley6389
    @jimakalley6389 ปีที่แล้ว +218

    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
      @pakovitz4088 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I sorry for your loss

    • @Habu2
      @Habu2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good luck fella.....

    • @trishjohnston3037
      @trishjohnston3037 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sorry for your loss… x

    • @tinydancer62
      @tinydancer62 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm sorry for your loss.

    • @vairamjaishree
      @vairamjaishree ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My condolences Jim

  • @dianneb61
    @dianneb61 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @XeroBase69
      @XeroBase69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That’s Tommy Reilly playing - Barry was the composer

  • @johnvalencia7488
    @johnvalencia7488 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Classic, timeless, one of the greatest, ever.

  • @joeyrice5873
    @joeyrice5873 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    I think Midnight Cowboy was either the first Rated R film to be nominated or win an Oscar.

  • @billymcmonagle949
    @billymcmonagle949 6 ปีที่แล้ว +520

    John Barry musical genius

    • @arepitagrande8797
      @arepitagrande8797 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Absolutely!

    • @MrDavey2010
      @MrDavey2010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Agreed

    • @smotnick
      @smotnick 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      He was better than Williams.

    • @paulholmes8887
      @paulholmes8887 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      👍

    • @grahamhill8018
      @grahamhill8018 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @darthsalsapants7059
    @darthsalsapants7059 6 ปีที่แล้ว +766

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

    • @nuil501
      @nuil501 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @peterbrown6224
      @peterbrown6224 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @nuil501
      @nuil501 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @peterbrown6224
      @peterbrown6224 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @nuil501
      @nuil501 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@peterbrown6224 hahaha , yeap

  • @kor3813
    @kor3813 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

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

  • @Seagull-sq4wh
    @Seagull-sq4wh ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @Seasider70
    @Seasider70 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Life is better because of John Barry.

  • @carpenter284
    @carpenter284 4 ปีที่แล้ว +343

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

    • @delbertmain8907
      @delbertmain8907 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Great piece of music 1969 right there

    • @vladdahora3690
      @vladdahora3690 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @michaelkiernan3558
      @michaelkiernan3558 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Absolutely

    • @simoncarlile1965
      @simoncarlile1965 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @rondeneef
      @rondeneef 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      great composer man

  • @dennissantoni7060
    @dennissantoni7060 2 ปีที่แล้ว +256

    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
      @hectorpena7068 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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
      @chalkmiracle122 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      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
      @orangescout1967 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      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
      @seanhuds229 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @martinmccrary3085
      @martinmccrary3085 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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!

  • @redkop510
    @redkop510 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Brilliant...the film is even better.

  • @shawnmcculley2995
    @shawnmcculley2995 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Beyond beautiful. Period. End of discussion!!!

  • @matteoromenghi
    @matteoromenghi หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The genius of John Barry.

  • @josephcomuniello964
    @josephcomuniello964 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

  • @jlgitto
    @jlgitto ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Music is everything.This is beautiful.

  • @kurtnygren3476
    @kurtnygren3476 3 ปีที่แล้ว +161

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

    • @stevemelancon6207
      @stevemelancon6207 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @d.l.b3452
      @d.l.b3452 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @aromero385
      @aromero385 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I was the same age.

    • @deliomarciofallerpereira
      @deliomarciofallerpereira 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Eu 9.

    • @boomerhgt
      @boomerhgt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I was 12 fabulous music

  • @andrewbaker7548
    @andrewbaker7548 ปีที่แล้ว +73

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

  • @nevermore1939
    @nevermore1939 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    R.I.P John Barry 😢😢😢

  • @johnatangomes5759
    @johnatangomes5759 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Perfect melody😍

  • @hd3434paddles3636
    @hd3434paddles3636 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @jamesreynolds2190
    @jamesreynolds2190 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Reassuringly flawless in this chaotic world.

  • @jonathantregidgo5402
    @jonathantregidgo5402 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    When cavatina was first heard on the deer hunter all my family / aunts & uncles were all alive sadly only my dear old beautiful mum is the last one standing life is good & sad at the same time 🙏🙏🙏

  • @shanemercer6893
    @shanemercer6893 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I’ve never heard anybody play that well on that underrated instrument!!! Share class

  • @droppedbye.2698
    @droppedbye.2698 4 ปีที่แล้ว +458

    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
      @peterbrown6224 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      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
      @Doors067 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Never.2.Shabby moms are the best

    • @droppedbye.2698
      @droppedbye.2698 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@peterbrown6224 ... I know that Peter x

    • @droppedbye.2698
      @droppedbye.2698 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @brianrodney712
      @brianrodney712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

  • @isabelcoates2759
    @isabelcoates2759 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    He wrote such beautiful music. A real treasure.

  • @robertoxiz
    @robertoxiz 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Great song! Great movie! Great John Barry!

  • @hhenryf.8
    @hhenryf.8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Pure nostalgia!!

  • @Super_Chief
    @Super_Chief ปีที่แล้ว +154

    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
      @woneymalian4513 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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
      @deborahwilcox5716 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Wow, beautiful story and song

    • @Newfoundmike
      @Newfoundmike ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ITS HARD TO FIND a good HARMONICA NOWADAYS 😎✌️

    • @RO8s
      @RO8s ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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
      @ElizabethGS ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

  • @tonyapthorpe1751
    @tonyapthorpe1751 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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
      @ms.annthrope415 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @hoorootv1
    @hoorootv1 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    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 ❗️

  • @michaelbabbitt3837
    @michaelbabbitt3837 ปีที่แล้ว +71

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

    • @jimskye7130
      @jimskye7130 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well said 💯👌

    • @asacarrick1385
      @asacarrick1385 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's not a song

    • @michaelbabbitt3837
      @michaelbabbitt3837 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@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
      @wendyleewilliams1157 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So true. Exactly.

    • @ElizabethGS
      @ElizabethGS 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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.

  • @davidscott1052
    @davidscott1052 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

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

  • @wonderwoman2997
    @wonderwoman2997 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is John Barry = a very famous English composer from the 60s - he wrote 90 per cent of all the James Bond themes as well as many other movies soundtracks

  • @garyindge875
    @garyindge875 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    That Is A Lovely Tune From John Barry

  • @micheleplouffe2343
    @micheleplouffe2343 3 ปีที่แล้ว +222

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

  • @Sameoldfitup
    @Sameoldfitup 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    “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
      @jimicmore1895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @davidjadunath1262
      @davidjadunath1262 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @christophedallaporta8836
      @christophedallaporta8836 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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!! 💣

  • @davegavin9724
    @davegavin9724 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    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

  • @chickey333
    @chickey333 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The music and the movie was an absolutely perfect match.

    • @Habu2
      @Habu2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @damiendavisisraelcom8603
    @damiendavisisraelcom8603 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

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

  • @sscbkr48
    @sscbkr48 ปีที่แล้ว +20

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

    • @Habu2
      @Habu2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wonderful description....thank you.

  • @jocargua
    @jocargua ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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..!!!!

  • @bl75025
    @bl75025 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

  • @andystreet4022
    @andystreet4022 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    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
      @bigtony4829 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

    • @punkrockredneck5563
      @punkrockredneck5563 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @moinmoin8311
      @moinmoin8311 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@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
      @bobphillips3222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @garygritter5701
      @garygritter5701 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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 👍

  • @glendasmilesalot2959
    @glendasmilesalot2959 5 ปีที่แล้ว +520

    I never get tired of listening to this!

  • @Ron71997
    @Ron71997 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

  • @osbornebay944
    @osbornebay944 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Who is still listen to this masterpiece in the dark days Covid19? "Midnight Cowboy" cuts into bones in many aspects of real life we experience now .......

    • @veramalta5943
      @veramalta5943 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Linda interpretação de Belo tema! 31/01/2021 , RJ ,BRASIL!❤❤❤

    • @joejoe7702
      @joejoe7702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The dark days of global hysteria at incalculable cost to humanity.

    • @veramalta5943
      @veramalta5943 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@joejoe7702 I LOVE THIS FILM! JOHN VOIGHT AND DUSTIN HOFFMAN WERE BRILLIANT! THE SONG IS SAD, BUT PERFECT ! I CRIED A LOT BYTES SEEING IT! 02/27/2021, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL! 💚💛💚💛💚💛💚💛💚💛💚💛💚💛

    • @joejoe7702
      @joejoe7702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@veramalta5943 yes, a beautiful and heart wrenching film. Sums up life. Think it’s time I watched again.

    • @veramalta5943
      @veramalta5943 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@joejoe7702 SORRY about my terrible English! I studied it a very long time ago! But I agree with you when you said that it is time to see it again! And always we need! Nice to talk with you! RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL! 02/27/2021.😉😂💚💛

  • @renatonunes2550
    @renatonunes2550 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    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
      @alanpeel3450 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sensational.

    • @eduardo_corrochio
      @eduardo_corrochio ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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
      @philippemullie9726 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @janflemmingolsen
      @janflemmingolsen ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Indeed 👍

    • @peetsnort
      @peetsnort ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Especially Voight

  • @Maffeiminimal
    @Maffeiminimal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

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

  • @Turrican60
    @Turrican60 4 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    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
      @mpwedwards7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @tedgarland5004
      @tedgarland5004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Very very well put!!!

    • @bdeblier
      @bdeblier 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @dinghyyoung
      @dinghyyoung 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This man is a genius

    • @Turrican60
      @Turrican60 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

  • @perezfecto
    @perezfecto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

  • @kato76109
    @kato76109 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This song should be played at my funeral

  • @snowngeorgia
    @snowngeorgia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

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

    • @ElizabethGS
      @ElizabethGS 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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
      @ElizabethGS 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @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. :)

  • @vivasangabriele1608
    @vivasangabriele1608 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @anagram8
    @anagram8 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    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
      @ElizabethGS ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @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
      @Habu2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      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
      @Habu2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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
      @anagram8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you@@Habu2 I appreciate it.

    • @ElizabethGS
      @ElizabethGS ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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! :)

  • @FKINoop
    @FKINoop 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very sad and haunting music fully in keeping with the storyline of the Midnight Cowboy film.

  • @luismiguelgarronrevaliente51
    @luismiguelgarronrevaliente51 ปีที่แล้ว +46

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

    • @taroman7100
      @taroman7100 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Haunting

    • @jameswalton3930
      @jameswalton3930 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @caesarvalentin6332
    @caesarvalentin6332 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    He was a genius, love all of his James Bond theme songs

  • @PinkyPuff69
    @PinkyPuff69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +270

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

    • @joseosmirfiorelli2527
      @joseosmirfiorelli2527 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's it!

    • @Mynamesalexa
      @Mynamesalexa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Reminds me of Sharon Tate

    • @mariamcdermott4159
      @mariamcdermott4159 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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
      @mariamcdermott4159 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @PinkyPuff69
      @PinkyPuff69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      maria mcdermott
      Yep. Just beautiful.

  • @tectorama
    @tectorama หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember seeing this film when it was first released. It had a great soundtrack. Although obviously not
    being played live here. John Barry was a master of film themes.

  • @MrTotalluck
    @MrTotalluck หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Watched the movie for thebfirst time when I was 25 in the middle 80s
    The music, the story, the atmosphere impacted me like a wrecking ball.
    I made a commitment to go to New York to live a life like Joe Buck without the hat and the boots of course.
    Worked hard and saved some money and two years later I found myself on times square.
    The electricity was flowing thru my body like a whip.
    Unforgettable.
    Of course the Joe Buck plan never worked but that was the least important thing.
    The sensations of those days will never come back.
    Blessed times

    • @tomhaskett5161
      @tomhaskett5161 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It didn't work for Joe Buck, either. The actual book is more depressing than the film, if that were possible.

  • @brendanclements5194
    @brendanclements5194 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

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

    • @wonderfulwino4265
      @wonderfulwino4265 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The greatest your sister joke setup ever!.

    • @mikedev492
      @mikedev492 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check out Larry Adller

  • @map3384
    @map3384 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

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

  • @susanbeckham7236
    @susanbeckham7236 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love this bittersweet instrumental from the best perfomances I have ever seen. Dustin Hoffman has some kind of talent. Amazing actor. Voight was also great, but nobody else could have played ratso...NOBODY!

  • @giselabalda2389
    @giselabalda2389 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    😍Beautiful!

  • @TraderK1836
    @TraderK1836 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    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!

  • @wokzip
    @wokzip 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I cried watching this movie, maan. Good acting.

  • @blackvulcan100
    @blackvulcan100 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is this from 1969 when I visited the US as a young man of 22 years old ?? No words to say how much I love this.

  • @ia68rr51
    @ia68rr51 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If I have a funeral,
    This is the song I want played

  • @andreluiscramalho2586
    @andreluiscramalho2586 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In two words: EMOTION and INSPIRATION

  • @simonalex100
    @simonalex100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    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

  • @baroquer
    @baroquer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    MIDNIGHT COWBOY - one of my #1 movies of all times ♥