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.
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.
In the late '60s, I had long since ditched the Beatles, the Archies, etc. and was listening to KWIZ, a station that played mostly "oldies" from the '50s and early '60s. Their target audience was mostly mature adults in Orange County, Calif., then a hotbed of conservatism. But a current hit would occasionally break into their playlist, and one of them was Ferrante & Teicher's "Midnight Cowboy."