The Ferrante & Teicher version of “Midnight Cowboy” got a lot of airplay out here even on the non-Top 40 stations. I never saw the movie. I heard that it takes place at midnight but that it’s not about a cowboy.
I never saw the (Midnight Cowboy) movie either. When it came out, I was still in grade school, and would not have been allowed to. I think the movie was an “R” or “M” rating, back when it was rare for a mainstream film to carry such a rating.
Even back in the 6th or 7th grade, I loved that music. So different than the steady diet of Motown, Soul & Beatles (& The Archies) I had grown up hearing.
By the time I was old enough, I had heard so much about the film, I was no longer curious.