he was a brilliant interpreter so he could take that fred neil song and make it his own everybody's talking was not written for midnight cowboy everybody's talking was harry single and it had been out before the film i was approached by jerry hellman and john schlesinger and asked if i'd be interested in writing a song for midnight cowboy title song they showed me four reels of uncut material and i thought what this could be the best movie ever made you know this is incredible you bet you bet he wrote i guess the lord must be in new york city they also went to bob dylan asked him to write a song i understand that one was lay lady lay that dylan wrote they also went to joni mitchell and asked her to write a song all of them wrote songs for the film and submitted it to the producers and they listened to all the songs and after hearing all this they decided to stick with everybody's talking which they had been using as a temporary track until they found a song for and they just got used to it so used to it they didn't want to drop it and left it in thank you very much midnight cowboy won the oscar for the best picture of the year at the same time harry won the grammy for the best contemporary vocal performance
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