A hauntingly beautiful melody from my childhood.

This is as strong a thread as the innocuous snares strung by Captain Kangaroo or Mister Rogers.

 

1969's Midnight Cowboy with Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman won three Oscars, twenty-six other honors, and sits at #43 on the AFI’s Top 100, but if you were around at the time (I was listening with 6-year-old ears), grownups were talking about the X rating. And if you've watched it recently, you may have scratched your head at how it even earned an R.

Times change. It’s a great film with an equally great theme by John Barry. Barry won a Grammy for it, and I've embedded it here[1]:

John Barry - The Midnight Cowboy Theme [link fixed]

 

A celebration of Barry’s work, from Goldfinger to Midnight Cowboy and more:

John Barry Memorial Concert - Complete Radio Broadcast

 

 

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Both Midnight Cowboy and the Sesame Street theme use a harmonica, which might have given this piece more of a childhood feel for me.

 

 

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