Ferrante & Teicher Midnight Cowboy

[kaucher4271]

This song is one of my guilty pleasures it brings back some great memories from when I was a kid in Kingsburg CA.

[mw77llc]

2011 proven to be a Great year of increase growth & change for me ....:)

[mw77llc]

BEAUTIFUL Way to end a great day Thankyou.

[steve21130]

These guys must have bought hair spray in 55 gal. drums.

[Porkcfish]

I am very pro-Ferrante and Teicher, but this is a John Barry composition.

[surferlaments]

bravo...que bueno!

[Mulsanne917flatout]

A valid point, and one I had not noticed until you mentioned it.

Still, (and it should hardly it fall to me to defend it), but if you've seen the movie, you'll know it also encompasses some real human-interest aspects. Human struggles (just to stay alive).

Is it possible this network somehow saw beyond the (assumed) objection to that original movie rating? Perhaps even saw there might be something more important here?

Or maybe the current execs at this network are just too young?

[TVsKevin]

That's kind of ironic, TV network owned by a church, presents the theme song from a movie that received an X rating when it was released.

[Mulsanne917flatout]

@TVsKevin My OTHER thought would simply be that this is a magnificent tune, whether played (as here) by F&T or in the original.

IMO this ethereal, lilting ballad (presumably a ballad, although we do have to extrapolate with it being in instrumental in this case) builds and builds upon itself...and when heard played with...harmonica [Toots Theilemanns]...is truly "ethereal." Otherworldly, to me.

All this regardless of networks or denominations.

This is a tune that truly accesses my soul.

[JazzKeyboardist1]

hey, i still give a TOOTS about this song,lol

[JazzKeyboardist1]

hey i'm talkin here,,,,,,,,,,, live, the one guy takes off his fake mustache, it was their big joke of the night,, it made me wanna practice

[club1503]

They were so special. Have not been duplicated since, Probably will not be. I'm so proud I was able to hear them make magic. I still play their wonderful sounds today!

[MightySaturn5]

beautiful....



[JewelDallas]

I love the ruffles!

[HunterMann]

Such a beautiful song from such a dark, classic American film. Everbody is indeed talkin' at me...

[greetpete]

My goodness! I found this trawling you tube, what total excellance!!! Two words, QUITE AMAZING!!! Thank you so very much for posting.

[Nighthawk5210]

I don't know why, but one of my earliest childhood memories was watching Ferrante and Teicher performing this song--maybe it was on the Ed Sullivan show, I don't know, but I remember the two pianos, the men in glasses and this haunting song.

[CHATROOMMUSIC]

I love this music! I remember listening to this beautiful music back in the late 1960's when I was just 11 years old back in 1968! ! A+++++ What a beautiful piece of music this is! A++++Thank you for posting this great video!

[maximilliantoupee]

Um... playing harmoniously is kind of a minimum requirement for musicians, I don't think it makes them 'geniuses'.

[ccb999]

Keep it up! A beautiful piece of music, as compared to those being produced,, Well! wish I can play just a small part of this piece!

Meanwhile, continue to produce your masterpieces .. you know that you have us enjoying them! Bravo

[jsorter]

My parents took me to see them when I was a little kid back in the early 70's. I have been a Ferrante and Teicher fan since. The only reason I still have a turntable is to play their albums. I don't have near the 150 or so albums they put out, maybe I have 30 of them. They bring joy to my spirit. Sad to hear of their passing, but their music will live on.

[MightySaturn5]

@jsorter thanks for sharing that story

[pjoellius]

Digging their sideburns!

[Nickie0016]

MASTERFUL!!!!!!!!!!

[Nickie0016]

BEAUTIFUL!!!!! RIP

[gva0917]

Ferrante & Teicher - tremendously talented. Every song they play is wonderful. Anyone who does not listen to Ferrante & Teicher simply because they are not familiar with the names is really missing out on superb music. Thank you for this beautiful post.

[snowseeker33]

This song along with Living Together Growing Together are my best easy listening songs. Ferrante and Teicher are just outstanding in this piece. It is absolutely timeless. I could listen to this song all day long...We need more music like this back in our lives....god bless them...

[nema63]

Omg~I could just watch them play this song all day, I've never seen such musical geniuses put their heart, body and soul to such a piece so effortlessly~Truly amazing!

[Nickie0016]

@nema63 Me too!

[CurtRolandFan]

This is so beautiful :D

[FluffableGerbie]

i have this on my ipod and i love it-i didnt even know it was from the old days

[CHATROOMMUSIC]

At the ripe old age of 53, you may call me an old fart however I still enjoy this music! A++++++

[deadlysin79]

..one of the Las Vegas legends among :

Liberace

Burt Bacharach

Barry Manilow

[takemeback2]

Very cool. Remember it well.....like just yesterday.

[CHATROOMMUSIC]

I am old enough to remember when Ferrantie and Teicher made this great film / video. A++++ This music is great indeed! A++++

[CatullusJ]

Wow. My mother loved these guys. I came of musical adulthood in the age of the Sex Pistols and the Talking Heads, so they seem impossibly cheesy to me, especially with the fake hair. Seems so gay now. I can't judge the musical talent part. They are still an artifact of their time. Oh well. If my mother were still alive, she would have liked this video. Still, thanks for posting for the archealogical aspect.

[7440102]

@CatullusJ

Dude, the reason you cant judge their talent was you were not around in their prime. They were some of the greatest pianist alive then. OBTW, the hair is real.

[showmanlee]

@7440102

Just to let you know, F&T wore wigs and the glasses. That was part of their gimmick. I know this as I am friends with the guy who used to manage them. They are awesome....

[wconeal1]

Your an idiot! You tard you wouldnt know music if you heard it. Good music is beautiful, powerful an moving! Your so ignorant an stupid! These geniuses of the keyboard in addition to being great pianists in their own right played together as one were also geniuses of arrangements as most of their music after the early days of Don Costas brilliant arrangements of Theme from the Apartment an Exodus which established their careers were their own! Their music moved your emotions as good music does!

[insanepoet93]

Wow, these guys are truly musical geniuses, being able to harmoniously play together that way. Rest in peace to them both now.

[wvmark76]

A beautiful song that never gets old!

[manzarek88]

Such a nostalgic mood... absolutely gorgeous.

[jeffrothom]

Awesome

[garrattm]

This is one of their greatest songs I have heard

[MarChiville]

@garrattm Midnight Cowboy is one of the saddest movies..and beautifully played

[RougeTemplar]

Great song :)

[n8tronics]

One of the most beautiful songs played on piano

[EasilyWowed]

40 years - and it still stands the test of time!

[1812joyce]

Learned of F&T back in the late 1960's... my mom would listen to 'elevator music" all day .long...now aproaching 50 I find those memories of mom's 'elevator music' is truly timeless. Are they still with us?

[bmp1213]

@1812joyce No, both have passed away. My family was luck enough to meet them when we lived in Chicago, when my sister and I were children.

[wickedcoolally]

Masterpiece! One of the most beautiful songs ever!

[pianomanmaestro]

I love there music after hearing the Record a friend has!

[MrCrazymf]

Guitar? guitar? - That's an harmonica, dude!!!!!!

[THECLARENCES]

Totally tubular to the max!

xoxo

The Clarences

[Gunstar1701]

This performance is beautiful, but it's just not the same without the mournful guitar in the studio version.

[lake40]

now thats the right way to play a piano wonderful

[aybayb]

What a haunting melody...This takes me back 40 years. Thanks for posting

[jude2005386]

This song carries more feeling than with words

[raakrev]

1 min 50 stop lol

[yourmom666]

Teicher retired to Siesta Key, Ferrante to Longboat Key. Art (Ferrante) always said it was ironic that they were pianists, and they ended up retiring on "keys."

RIP both of you.

[tccompaq]

They retired to Siesta Key,Florida and Longboat key,Fl in the 80's I saw them both preform at a local piano store for free and it was packed you could not even get close to the store and they did thse quite often.. what a great scene it was...

[LG20196]

EXTRAORDINARIA ¡¡¡¡sencillamente exquisita...fiel remembranza de los 70'

[becarefulwiththat]

What a beautiful melody

So much beautiful music came from the late 60's and early 70s

[ThoughtTraveler]

They were the FIRST gay piano duo in American music History.

Great Music!!!

[pianoamerica]

Ferrante & Teicher were as straight as arrows. Whittimore & Lowe were the first gay two-piano team in America. Do your research.

[ThoughtTraveler]

Homophobe!

[wconeal1]

@ThoughtTraveler You are queer and an idiot! No I am not a homophobe. I am not afraid of queer's! Ferrante and Teicher were brilliant pianists with a unique style of playing beyond compare and they were brilliant arranger's of music! To say they were queer is highly offensive to a life long fan like myself.

[Ferrante109]

They were not gay, idiot.

[torgman]

@ThoughtTraveler Ferrante had a wife and daughter; Teicher was married twice and had three kids. Between the mod tuxes and the bad toupees, they were just dressing gay.

[hiergehts]

I don't think so - just the bad hairstyles of the day..

[steejoos]

Hey, they're both wearing rugs, no?

[TheLemonKid01]

@steejoos Yes, I think so. Earlier pictures of them, show them with much less hair,

[1560438]

One of the greatest movies of our time. That theme always reminds me!

[chuckbuckbobuck]

By their attire I would say it would have to be around 1972 or 1973.

[pianoamerica]

Original air date was December - 1969...Their theme from Midnight Cowboy was Top 10.

[frankd1965]

from what show was this from?

[Ferrante109]

@frankd1965  Midnight Cowboy...duh

[chkjns]

Thanks for the year, this one now added to 1969 in my music playlists for each of the last 100 years. My channel is a trip back in time to any year you choose.

Hope you'll listen in and enjoy . . . . . . . . . .

[ITELLTHETRUTH2]

Nice video indeed! A+++ Thank you! A+++ I like this tune A++ however the movie was junk! What was the original air date of this video?

[TheLemonKid01]

Simply epic. Farewell Mr. Ferrante.

[pornswordtobacco]

On top off it all I just like how the the 2 grand pianos spoon like that, great music!

[ZePHANT0M]

So then - X rating means that the music doesn't have to be all that great to win an award?

Thanks, by the way for the negative rating for my honest comment. I returned the favor, jerk.

[Garr1984]

I was not aware I had rated your comment negative and I certainly did not mean to, although I do not think you are a jerk for thinking I did.

[ZePHANT0M]

Has anyone other than me noticed that this song is 16 notes repeated over and over?  I mean I think its good and they were great composers but I don't get what makes this 16 note riff an award winning composition.

[Garr1984]

it is a famous composition primarily because it is the theme song to the only X Rated Movie to win an Oscar.

[pianoamerica]

Ferrante & Teicher did NOT compose this theme. It was written by John Barry. For 16 notes...they DID make a Top 10 single out of it in 1969. It came during the years of repetition...no one minded. YouTube their theme from Exodus to see what they really did...or The Seventh Dawn.

[Mediforce]

Thank you for the clarification! I saw them live twice and they were incredibly talented! What a gift and blessing for all of us.! Mr. Ferrante may you rest in peace and thanks for the many wonderful memories!

[sching1999]

Louis Teicher died last year Aug 3. 2008

[Ferrante109]

I am sad to report that Arthur Ferrante died on September 19, 2009 at his home in Longboat Key, Florida. He was 88. He will be missed, but his legacy lives on through his music along with partner, Louis Teicher

[16Lizards]

I'm surprised that his obituary was not in the NY Times, unless it will be in a later edition. David Carson was the first to inform me of this passing.

[astralartist4]

It's amazing how it's always a pleasure to listen to any song that they play.

[ALEXMAX52]

stellare

[ALEXMAX52]

stupenda

[pernelldh]

Which of the two men is Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher shown in this video clip?

[ReligionofPeaceNot]

I am fairly certain Teicher is on the left with the moustache.

[16Lizards]

The late Teicher is the one on the left.

[ReligionofPeaceNot]

Back in 1969 I did listen to this duo on my AM radio with my long sideburns shining!!

Now Teicher is dead and Ferrante is 86.

[pkappel006]

stunning & unbelievable

[TheButterflygarden]

Wonderful memories....great song another classic:)

[zantepete]

back in 69 i would have laughed,i still laugh at the dudes dress and hair but the music is something else.

thanks for posting this

[IRENEJACOBI2]

WONDERFUL!

THANKS FOR POSTING

[mx94racer]

Oh Austin! Do behave!!!

[gettalifenow]

This is good but their album version is better

[7beers]

That hair, those sideburns, those shirt cuffs, that suit collar, those horn-rimmed glasses. I'm in heaven.

[ssur55]

It's amazing how I wouldn't listen to this music if you paid me back in the 60s when I was young. Now that I am old (in my 50s) in 2009, it sounds great and makes me think of happier times.

[7beers]

Aren't you happy now? :(

[SchwagmasterJT]

You are only as old as you feel. I couldn't agree with more though, about not appreciating certain things until you get older.

[antshrike]

Wow, so true---if it wasn't the Beatles, I didn't have time for it, but now I own more Ferrante & Teicher LPs (on vinyl!) than I have Lennon or McCartney solo LPs, so there ya go...

[LaughSlave]

@ssur55 happier times? the sick 60's? i liked ferrante and teicher then while liking the stones, i loved sinatra while loving the animals... i enjoyed ray charles while enjoying petula clark... i really don't get your point... ahhhh, nostalgia... check out spike jones and you weren't even alive yet...

[ssur55]

@LaughSlave Sorry, but for me those were happier times - those carefree years of my youth before the realities of life set in. Why do you call them the "sick 60s"? I thought they were great times - all the music you mentioned being played together on the same radio station. The Beatles and Bobby Goldsboro fighting it out for the no 1 spot on the AM top 40. Very diverse. By the way, I am very familiar with Spike Jones.

[brainpoptart]

Stellar performance from Ferrante and Teichler of a 60's classic, in the Burt Baccarach or John Barry's tradition.

[johnisallin]

Those freaking hair doos!!

That's when men had REAL hair!!

[piano77man77]

Excellent!!

[gnh53]

Fabulous. Very nostalgic. Thank You

[bubleta]

Wow, look at those pork chops!!!!!!!! I want their hair.

[thirdunkle]

sublime.......just gorgeous.......

[chriswales19]

Amazing ! Thanks so much for sharing

[jjjones77]

Awesome toupees.

[johnisallin]

LMAO!! XD

[discokidx1]

ferocious passion at the keys

[ASquad51]

Amazing!

[classymania]

nostalgic-soundtrack, vinyl records on stereo monogram..was about 3-4 yrs old wen my parents got hooked on F/T music..ds s world-class rendition f a classic piece..F/Ts music on twin grand pianos r just too amazing, enduring..i get blown away by their rendition, arrangement is superb, musical architecture is perfect..fierce, brilliant talents..

[TroyeHaryanto]

A great instrumental - reminds me of Clint Eastwood and old Rawhide movies ... thanks for posting this ... its made my day, Harry!

[gubenski]

preety cool!

[baiNEKO]

Thanks for posting this great video!

[Knoxvicious]

Gorgeous....

[perla51]

Splendid simply !!!!!!

[54spiritedwill54]

Beautiful!

[dbrunsonsr]

Happier times in NJ. I hear this and I go back instantly to when life didn't seem to be so mean. Thank God for memories. No one can take those from u.

[HumanBozoBoy]

before your ex-wives fucked you over...oh yeah they can take everything away from you ya dumb fuck you still havent learned jersey jerkoff...

[specialbeat]

Knob!

[kcbrettfan2007]

RIP Lou Teicher

[SchwagmasterJT]

Such a powerful song.

[mrsmagloo]

These guys bordered on hokey, but I still love them! My husband is also a huge fan.

[mwhite36]

Great post!

I have both the DVD and the CD movie soundtrack to this film. The one thing I don't like about the CD though, is that they don't have the EXACT same version of "Midnight Cowboy" from the film, on the CD.

Oh well.

[Neguzinho]

Maravilhoso!!!!

[eldapp39]

MUY BELLO

[gettalifenow]

Had just finished infantry training in Marines and heard this..driving through Beverly Hills..where the stars lived. Nice spring day..away from racial crap, dope, hippies and the war... those were crazy times..death, and headed for the moon at the same time.

[BURICHELLOCO]

Listening to this theme played by F and T transported me back in time when life was innocent and simple. It brought back so many sweet memories while growing up in a small town in the late sixties. I miss those days. Thanks for posting.

[cathrynm]

This was played everywhere and　really was the 'other sound of the 60's' --　those last few years before everyone's parents discovered swinging and pot and got divorced. Gag.

[JamboCordoba]

You know this is from a film about a hustler and a con artist living in a state of horrible economic and social destitution in New York, right? Why do gang rape flashback sequences remind so many people of some largely mythical small-town innocence?

[BURICHELLOCO]

I was 11 when I heard this lovely music. I never saw the movie until about 15 years later. We are talking about the music here. Another example, my aunt who was a kid in the 1950's, always cries when she hears "Unchained Melody" originally from the brutal movie "Unchained" a story about a prison riot in Chino California. She was to young to watch the movie when it came out. But it's the music like some smell that takes us back in time

[dquiroz73]

Amazing, I really love it...

[xxxbuggy23]

yes, sorry man

[xxxbuggy23]

love the song, the wigs have to go!

[pianoamerica]

Can you just appreciate the music and leave the attire out of it?

[mulsanne917]

My own favorite was the Toots Thielemans Harmonica version, but it's easy to see how this collected it's own audience too.

Music was still magic back then.

[mwhite36]

Yep!

Other favorites I have from that time period are the theme from the "Odd Couple" and "Remembering You", the closing theme from "All in the Family".

Great music!

[RP50]

Looks like all the shows budget could afford for a backdrop was the old Shindig set. This is nice, but I miss that underwater lead guitar from their record.

[disastertom]

When I was in high school, I met these two gentlemen back in the early 70's when they came to town for a local community concert series we had. I ran lights for the show - and since I played the piano, they let me join it on a few things with them during rehearsal - something I'll always remember!

[cathrynm]

Oh wow, this is one from 'dad's record collection.' (Though I have to watch the movie again. Is this from the Midnight Cowboy movie?)

[tropicalpancake56]

For Mike

[tropicalpancake56]

Beautiful!

[Roadsidepictures]

Dad had their greatest hits album. I used to fall asleep listening to them play. I still have the double lp album!

[frostyspot]

I had that double album, too. It was great. Wish I could hear the songs in that order again.......

[blookup]

I really love this song and these guys are super talented, but is that real hair?

[WizardGlik]

Easily the best combination of toupees and glasses in modern American music!

[benabz]

my parents had an lp of these guys and i loved this tune and their funky glasses

[spam0193]

John Barry American? last i heard he was as british as fish and bloody chips!!!!!!!!!!

[venture1q]

Too right he's English!

[loganlark]

Best American composer of film music ever: John Barry

[richieh1980]

Noob

[psychlyst]

yeah...this is a great version