John Barry and Midnight Cowboy

I meant to write something before about the composer John Barry who died recently. His most famous composition was the Bond theme along with arranging the music for the other title Bond songs (my favourite is that epic jazz style big band arrangement for Shirley Bassey’s Goldfinger). But my overall favourite is the sombre and poignant instrumental to the wonderful Midnight Cowboy (along with Harry Nilsson’s Everybody’s Talkin’…)

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One thought on “John Barry and Midnight Cowboy

  1. good post harpy
    i’ve left some angry comments recently and for that i apologise.
    watching a million people on the streets of egypt right now is so good to see!
    revives my faith in humankind.

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