harry nilsson sang everybody's talkin at me in midnight cowboy.
harry nilsson sang everybody's talkin at me in midnight cowboy.
who sang everybody's talkin at me in midnight cowboy?
harry nilsson
john barry, who supervised the music and composed the score, won a grammy for best instrumental theme. fred neil's song "everybody's talkin'" won a grammy award for best contemporary vocal performance, male for harry nilsson. schlesinger chose the song as its theme, and the song underscores the first act. other songs considered for the theme included nilsson's own "i guess the lord must be in new york city" and randy newman's "cowboy". bob dylan wrote "lay lady lay" to serve as the theme song, but did not finish it in time. the movie's main theme, "midnight cowboy", featured harmonica by toots thielemans, but on its album version it was played by tommy reilly. the soundtrack album was released by united artists records in 1969. the title music from "midnight cowboy" and some of the incidental cues were included in the documentary "toryboy the movie" in 2011.
midnight cowboy
when derek taylor recommended nilsson for the "midnight cowboy" soundtrack to director john schlesinger, schlesinger selected "everybody's talkin, preferring the cover to the song nilsson proposed, "i guess the lord must be in new york city".









































the song was used as the theme song for the movie and became closely identified with it; nilsson's cover is also known as "everybody's talkin' (theme from "midnight cowboy")". william j. mann, in his biography of schlesinger, noted that "one cannot imagine "midnight cowboy" now without 'everybody's talkin'".









































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everybody's talkin'