elephant's memory - old man willow

[eddiecoronado]

Great movie and I love the psychedelic party scene!!

[EulelieEcho]

Who am I? Come on, Who Am I? Ahh It's Me!

joe

[billgeezeriommi]

this song kinda creeps me out but in a good way

[Fuktupratbag]

I went to my 1st Concert in 1974 I was 14 and this Band was Supposed to play but they couldn't make it so Duke & the Drivers took their place. 51 now.

that was a lifetime ago.

[jKRAMER001]

i just discovered this and im hooked!

[elyeye66]

Aparte de salir esta bonita canción en la película Cowboy de medianoche,los Elephan Memory son los que tocaron con John Lennon y la Plastic Ono Band,¿o no?Vamos,eso creo....

[ojetechiquito]

@elyeye66 claro, pero me parece Lennon le sonaba mejor con The Plastic Ono Band, que tocaba Clapton con èl.

[stephanienagle1]

If anyone wants to know, this song is about being "rooted" down while everyone around you is coming and going and living a real life. It's based off of the Lord of the RIngs character Old Man Willow who can move his limbs and roots but can't go anywhere. He is probably part ent (the trees that can moce and talk) but he can't do those things and that is most likely why is he is such an evil tree. But yeah this song was written directly about that.

[retentiveglint]

This song is awesome... i love the whole soundtrack...especially jungle gym at the zoo

[gazzah54]

THIS WAS A LANDMARK MOVIE

[breeeegs]

@goldsmice

are you saying it wasn"t?

[breeeegs]

the movie was also

[fridayafternoons1]

Dude y'all are ridiculous. Midnight cowboy is a good movie. Psychedelia and drugs and contrived artsy fartsy parties like warhols probably woulda been hella annoying, except for all the free drugs. Just a buncha contrived people runnin around in their expensive hippie clothes complaining about the way the world turns. That was a realistic depiction of new york. Negative positive, who cares? the world isn't just one side or the other.

[DiegoSka2ToneMod]

lyrics please !!! cheers from Argentina !

[Prepster954]

i saw them when i was a kid on a school trip to carnegy hall!!!

[ruitevar]

1) Elephant's Memory, was one of the best groups of American rock in the late '60. Maybe his music was too modern for the time, or very sophisticated, blending rock, jazz and psychedelic music the MS was a complex cauldron of excellent sound that required a lot of talent and constant innovation, these requirements may be too much for the subsistence of a simple band, many musicians and vocalists who successfully passed the group early in their careers as singer Carly Simon.

[ruitevar]

2) This theme, which is extracted from the soundtrack of the film Midnight Cowboy, we have the flawless performance by Michal Shapiro. I believe that anyone so well represented, albeit briefly, music and pop culture of the Big Apple as the '60 Elephants Memory, an unforgettable band.

[MapachewithSniper]

trippyyyy

[BeyondLame]

I thought the movie was okay.....

i mean i love the concept, don't get me wrong, but I just felt more could have been done with it =\

[kuntashytooth]

GOOSEBUMPS ALL FUCKIN OVER !!!

[alfredgama2]

ratherintelligentmen: Thank ypu for the tip, I am going to do a follow up.

[Roodski]

my hair is like.. tendrils reaching out into space.. I've watched them lol

[alfredgama2]

I still don't get what they mean by "Old man willow", is that a sage or something like it?

[ratherintelligentmen]

@alfredgama2 I don't know if anyone's replied to this yet or not, but Old Man Willow is a living tree in The Lord of the Rings. He sings people to sleep and stuff.

[31wst]

Those were VERY strange times!! Is this what an LSD trip sounds like?

[BreezesofConey]

@31wst Try to imagine how colours taste and feel, that is another part of an acid trip. 

[RonaldVaughan]

I only found out about this song because of the Nick Michaels' radio show,THE DEEP END. He brought out the interesting fact that Carly Simon was a vocalist

with Elephant's Memory for a brief time in 1968. What a weird tune!. Yes,the

SAME Elephant's Memory that later worked with John Lennon and Yoko Ono!

[ayashadilrukshi]

Search some naughty women online **mworld5.info**

[DustyDale67]

Midnight Cowboy was a cinemagical masterpiece. So many of us can relate to Joe Buck's wide-eyed naivete during his first encounters with everything. And Ratso was the Mad Hatter for Joe...and we know the streets of NYC were filled with guys like him in those days.

[breeeegs]

Midnight Cowboy haunts me, the book especially. It's something about the characters and the story. It makes everything seem so eerie and cold, like there's some deep mystery at the heart of everything that words can't explain. The friendship between Ratso and Joe Buck is the only thing that's real and alive

[psychedelicfloyd]

la parte entre el minuto 4:32 y el minuto 5:05 aprox, es de lo mas psicodelico y espectalurmente agradable que he escuchado.

que cancion tan buena, esto suena a hippie, a rock, a progressivo, a jazz uuuuffff sigo???

[Broeddenhert]

Hippie tune!!

This one blew my mind away for real!

[dustylacson]

woah, Broadcast lifted a whole chord progression 0:08-0:23 from this song and used it in their song "The Book Lovers" /watch?v=Og7m71xuFbA bahaha same key and everything

[SilvioFavorites]

Great song for a very inspirational film about real human beings and coming to spiritual maturity (Midnight Cowboy). Thank you!

[unadin]

After seeing this video a few weeks back I bought the Elephants Memory CD. Good stuff. I definitely recommend it. Thanks for posting this outworldarts.

[genglemt]

I was just struck by the similarity by the bit with the organ solo at 4:34 and an instrumental passage in the song 25 O'Clock by the Dukes of Stratosphear (at 2:35 for anyone who has it)... The Dukes were a side project by the band XTC in the mid 80s, a tongue-in-cheek psychedelic outing. On some level they were probably inspired by this track right here.

[TheSUBBART]

nothing more higher than this...

[BreezesofConey]

ALthough I know from personal experience the psychedelic scene easily became just that, a scene; in the beginning and even for those who truly belonged to everything the "scene" represented when others were just following the trend it was really such an earth shattering shift in society. I vaguely remember now only because 1; it was so damn long ago and 2: I graduated quickly into heavy partying of the disco movement after this time. I look back with fondness tho, despite how silly it seems now.

[tonkehar]

I remember the day I bought this album and I played this song over n over and now....I'm playing this song over n over again. One of the best songs on this mind-blowing album! ;)

[billyralphweeden]

@funkyladybean.......

I AGREE WITH YOU. I LOVE THE MOVIE MIDNIGHT COWBOY !!

and i really like the party scene where this song appeared. the only thing i dont like about MIDNIGHT COWBOY is its age !! makes me feel old even being born in the 1960s'.....but thats life !! hey outworldsart, thank you for posting this. verryy 1960s' !!!!

[alrozz]

That's classic reminds me of when Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight are at the acid party in Midnight Cowboy.

[Briansey1]

Hey did someone have the lyrics of this song? I really want them...

[TheCK03]

cool 

[TheRETROKID1980]

CLASSIC ROCK

[fieryfarr]

I have this LP! A treasure trove. Wish I could locate here the other track in the party-scene. Without the cover in front of me it may be Jungle Gym at the Zoo the one that has 'Over the Valley of the Kings and the Queens where the sleeping cities lie'. perfection. I saw the film when it first came out and it broke the mould. Up till then all was as they used to say 'square, man'

[BreezesofConey]

@fieryfarr Hang onto that, you've got a treasure.

[fieryfarr]

@BreezesofConey You've said it. I heard the other day that all those films I was so priviledged(and old enough!)to see for the first time in the cinema such as also The Pawnbroker, Vanishing Point, They Shoot Horses Don't They? would not come into general release now. At the time they were being released by major studios but not so now. Wonder how much we have been missing.

[BreezesofConey]

@fieryfarr Such a good point. I know at any time movie studios have in their hands hundreds, if not thousands, of scripts that get tossed. Unfortunately, profit has come to exceed quality of life and things like music and film suffer just as much as fashion and other things. They'd rather produce a movie that they know will make a quick buck on opening night. You can't even get these films at video stores now! Only big budget net releases.

[funkyladybean]

It's so funny like I'm reading all these comments from people who think Midnight Cowboy was just negative in every way but why don't I see it that way?? I adore that movie and actually think the portrayal of NYC at the time was unique and done so not in an attempt to make the city look so bad but the way it would look to an outsider from the country. I loved the NYC of then and hate that it isn't that crazy place anymore. Why isn't this the version on the soundtrack?

[outworldarts]

@funkyladybean Most people don't thnk the movie is negative. There are just more jackasses on youtube lately. :) The version in the soundtrack is just cut. They do that often with songs in movies.

[silvanusslaughter]

@outworldarts the version on my soundtrack is 8:00 on United Artists. I love it.

And the film was GREAT.

[noahf67]

@funkyladybean I've loved the movie for years. It turned up on TV when

I was maybe 14 and as both a period chronicle and a story it looked solid,

so I made an appointment to watch, and it blew me into the next room.

The exteriors and locale shots alone are historically brilliant.

[proggoth]

@funkyladybean Absolutely correct! You are seeing the city through the eyes of the slightly dumb naive 'cowboy' who is completely out of his depth. It seems people dont understand this point...even some of the most respected movie critics. A profound film and a great song!

[SilvioFavorites]

@funkyladybean It's a marvelous film full of humanity and insight. It makes the crap out of Hellwood now look like the utter superficial crap it is designed for idiots who must be entertained like infants.

[breakfastclub75]

@funkyladybean that is my ALL time favorite film. Such a gem!!!!!!!

[jannyrcobs]

@funkyladybean The images of NYC that I grew up with here in Atlantic Canada are just so bleak and black: The Warhol Suicides and Electric Chairs; anything that went on at the Warhol Factory; Midnight Cowboy; The Velvet Underground's albums; Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe; Taxi Driver; Norman Mailer's novels; Allen Ginsberg's poetry; etc, etc. Dark, frightening people, places and art. But yet, everything was so appealing simultaneously--like a magnet drawing one into a deadly vortex.

[roxtar55]

@funkyladybean Well technically, it was a movie about counterculture, not necessarily a strong-plotted film, because that's not what it was intended to be. It was intended to strike controversy, which it did, being the only X-rated film to recieve a Best Picture Oscar. It's a highly artistic, experimental film that is based on a total new perspective - instead of the "negative/positive" you guys are babbling about. The plot, although not the strongest, still gives the feeling of true friendship.

[TheRETROKID1980]

i am 31 the movie showed how the life is fast i love this movie and this song

[elyeye66]

@funkyladybean So do I .I also love the film

[88mphsss]

@funkyladybean watch The Wackness, this topic is discussed. of New York sucking now.

[CurtRolandFan]

I love this song :D

[zio56]

Haunting!!!

[seitawii]

love her voice

[lennonzappa71]

Wonderful song, thank you very much for posting it. Reminds me a bit of the stuff Frank Zappa and the Mothers were doing in '67-'69.

[RaulDuke467]

I love the psychedelic songs about the lord of the rings

[TavaChip]

I love this song so much. I haven't even seen the Midnight Cowboy movie yet... Now I want to though.

[attatae]

isnt that part of the music?

[AlyssaQ420]

This song was perfect for that Warholesque scene in Midnight Cowboy. I love this song. It makes me ache for a time machine so I can go to one of Andy's factory parties.

[herasfolly]

@AlyssaQ420

Oh me too.....

[milkgodnl]

.. wonderful and trippy song with classically trained jazz musicians whose haunting melodies and fungal instrumentals lend the feeling of an accompanyment to some Off-Off-Broadway performance. ..

.. Show me the Beatnicks of Washington Square Park in the Summer of '69 ..

[subterranean47]

well said

[mickindanny]

My favorite movie of all time! The first time I saw Dustin Hoffman--I was astounded at his performance. The last scene draws a tear every time. Poor Rico

[vincsou33]

Who is the man at 1:09

[outworldarts]

@vincsou33 he was my cousin

[elyeye66]

@outworldarts He looks great.Did he die young?

[ChachiTelevision1979]

@vincsou33

I don't know, but I recognize him from the party scene in Midnight Cowboy.

[goldsmice]

This movie has a really negative portrayal of New York in the late 60s. It's made to look like a really cold, scary, unfriendly and intimidating place. Everything in it is either gaudy and tawdry, or seedy and filthy. The party scene in which this song is used portrays the psychedelic art scene as being pretentious, confusing and almost sinister.

[outworldarts]

It was a very negative place for the Rizzo character.

[choppedlogic]

@outworldarts exactly, you have to take into account what perspective is being used at the time. And I think its fitting if you consider the fate of most Factory-era denizens.

[darkmarkrammstein]

taxi driver

[Gilgamesh149]

This song is FAR OUT!!!

[goldsmice]

This song is downright creepy, I think. Especially in the Midnight Cowboy party scene, with all of these drugged-out freaks in their pretentious art scene.

[RandiSierra]

Yeah he kept bumping into one creepy person after the next.

[79SDV]

I literally had a horrible nightmare, like an acid trip, after hearing this song. It was sad and mellow.

This song is beautiful, but scary sounding to me now too.

And Midnight Cowboy?... LUVD IT!

[unclemeat2u]

Mid Night cowboy had this playing during the party scene...

[camrenishot1]

I love this, so much.

[johnlouisville]

So do I....be sure to watch the movie "Midnight Cowboy." This song is featured in an amazing psychedelic party sequence.

[RandiSierra]

Yeah it's so pretty

[outworldarts]

Yeah, we went through all that a while ago. I guess some people think that's important. I'm not a trivia buff. Besides I have to doubt anyone' sensibilities (john lennon) who thought it was a good idea to let Yoko Ono sing with him in public. :)

[tonkehar]

This group was producted by John Lennon, one of the beatles.

[homecurious]

John Lennon was a Beatle? OMG! Why didn't anyone tell me?

Sorry, a little sarcasm there. ;)

[tonkehar]

very funny....the sarcasm line.....was lol.....!

[pappydinksmoms]

amazing

[cossanosstra]

FuimosUnIMPERIO es mejor que la gente tome sus opciones y no que se las quieran imponer

[FuimosUnIMPERIO]

hasta cierto punto, todos los extremos son peligrosos

[cheochivista]

watched midnight cowboy last night. now here i am.

[FuimosUnIMPERIO]

no consumian ningun tipo de droga...

[outworldarts]

People think everything then had to do with drugs. I doubt it, but I don't know.

[johnlouisville]

Watch "Midnight Cowboy" and you'll understand the association between this song and drugs.

[outworldarts]

I have seen it. That one scene doesn't mean the song itself is about drugs. I honestly think it is simply a fanciful song.

[outworldarts]

@johnlouisville That's just your opinion. The SONG is not associated with drugs. It was played during a drugs scene. What IS it with everyone and this song?

[FeelOfFriction]

@outworldarts

It's obvious this song is psychedelic...

[BreezesofConey]

@outworldarts I agree with you on this. It is only an association with the drug scene in the movie at that.

[TheRETROKID1980]

@johnlouisville HELLA DRUGS

[Kenn1965]

I was only a small child when the film "Midnight Cowboy" was released, but I agree with you. I don't think as much revolved around drugs in that era as people tend to believe. I think it was more to do with societal changes and younger people trying to free themselves from the old-fashioned constraints of previous generations. Times were changing dramatically.

[Kenn1965]

In light of my earlier post, I must say though that the "rave up" Joe and Ratso attended in MC looked like incredible fun. It somewhat reminded me of parties I dropped in on out in Shepherd's Bush and St. John's Wood. Of course, that was in the London of my early twenties. It seems a lifetime ago now.

[outworldarts]

It was a lifetime ago!

[alinda47]

A lifetime ago, one I remember so well...

[ferris66]

what a fucking song

[ajm240393]

I heard it from midnight cowboy! xD

[starVol]

sweet. I remember hearing the band Elephant's Memory on my undergound FM station where I grew up. I'll let you explain to the younger crowd what Undergound FM rock radio was. LOL This song was sweet and I have not heard it in awhile. Going to amazon to get it.

[raceyboy]

Stereolab took their entire sound from this one song.

[Andrewsmate]

Maybe, at least in part.... and if you are influenced, it may as well be from true beauty such as this.

[peacenlovenganja]

What beautiful music.

[milkgodnl]

.. now this was the kind of music i listened to when i was in college.

[jaynez31]

Were you just listening?

[vangelisideras]

excelente pieza musical que adorna muy bien las escenas sicodelicas en el film; y el resto del album es igualmente convicente; buena banda

[miguebinet]

Bravo...!!!

[Gsal3]

Oh, by the way, that just might be Carly Simon singing vocals. I base this on their line up at the time.

[outworldarts]

The vocalist on this song is Michal Shapiro as per the liner notes.

[Gsal3]

Thanks!

[outworldarts]

No problem, I really like this vocalist better and wanted to be sure she gets proper credit.

[jimmydeancarlson]

Now I know where Stereolab got their influence!

[Gsal3]

Exactly! And Lush and The Cocteau Twins and The Bird and The Bee. I'm 57 YO and loved this song since I first heard it in 1969. I waited many years before someone took hold of this type of music. Love it.

[jaynez31]

Flying mushroom eating a white rabbit and singing and dancing with Jesus.

[BigRedTooL]

Just beyond groovy...

[Verve91]

Very groovy :D

I tried to dl this song can't find it :(

[outworldarts]

I wasn't able to download it, either. I ended up having to buy the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack to get. It's a good soundtrack, so I'm glad I bought it.

[Verve91]

:O I guess I will have to go buy it myself

:D

[AirandSun80]

Psychedelic! I love it.

[cucuckshow]

How you get cripple ?

I slipped on a banana peel !

[DayGloClams]

Great song.

[visionarydreams]

A fan of Elephants Memory..Thank you!

[hoffmann9471]

Grosse Kunst !! This is a wonderful work. I love it and remember it. 100 years not heard.

1000 Danke schon furs Video. 5******* Onkel Pete

[FlossPoint07]

My hair is tentacles reaching out into space. I've watched it touch many stars.

[seattlesinger6]

LOVE THIS SONG!!

THANKS! Midnight Cowboy Lives.

[SHRINA17]

As soon as this started I thought: Song in Midnight Cowboy...wow...thanks for posting.

[cheerbear237]

Yeah! Someone finally posted this song. I've been looking it up about once a week ever since I discovered YouTube. Love the Midnight Cowboy party scene. You must be cool. Thanks!!!

[outworldarts]

haha! I'm not cool. Someone else was cool first. When the one that was up was removed, I re-uploaded it.

[troyboy1971]

Classic Song, Thanks For Posting! :)