Halfway Home - Maureen McGovern
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- A not so well known tune, from a not so well known movie called The Earthling from 1980. Regardless, a great song. It's sung by Maureen McGovern (best known for her 1974 hit “The Morning After” from the movie The Poseidon Adventure). For entertainment purposes only. No copyright infringement intended.
If you watch the movie and get through this song with dry eyes you're one up on me. Miss McGovern is a truly a world-class talent.
It's really touching that in real life Ricky Schroeder named one of his kids Holden after William Holden. 😇
100%. Such a great movie!
Just watched the Earthling again for the first time in many years. Made me cry all over again. In Holden’s biography it said that he didn’t drink at all during the making of the movie because of Schroeder’s young age. They both indulged in ice cream instead and bonded closely.
Firstly, this is a beautiful & VASTLY underrated song from some 40 years ago now (perhaps because the movie wasn't very well received). And I'm pretty SURE the duo bonded, as yrs later, Schroder would name was first born son: Holden!
This fine song is from a very special and memorable movie starring William Holden and Ricky Schroeder.....basically a masterpiece .
Thank you so posting this formerly unfamiliar track. It is a special track and up there with her best recordings. She sings such magic into music.
One of the most wonderful songs in the entire universe.
My favorite movie EVER made!!!! I wish more people knew it!!! Beautiful story!!!!
As a growing boy, William Holden was my hero, my role model and so much more. As an adult, I saw the Earthling and thought, "This is how he should end his career, strong, stoic, and concerned for others. It wasn't his last movie but to me, it always will be. I had searched for this recording for years. Thank you for posting such a lovely, piogant performance.
My pleasure Jim! Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks so much for your kind words and taking the time to comment! :-)
I've loved this song since I first heard it when watching The Earthling at a theater in Oklahoma so long ago.
Thank you for posting this!
So glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the kind words! :-)
Ricky's performance was Oscar worthy, so was William Holden's, The other actors, not so much. Director, not so much. Ricky's parents, the pits, really yucky. That title song, I can't get out of my head for months after hearing it. Maureen McGovern, I love you. Love the movie even with the bad actors.
The Morning After From Irwin Allen’s The Poseidon Adventure was Produced in 1972. Irwin Allen’s The Towering Inferno was released in 1974..
One of my favorite childhood movies. Maureen is from my hometown. William is always great but Ricky was probably one of the best childhood actors I have ever seen. This movie and the remake of The Champ.
True words my friend
Maureen is famous for her movie theme career. But, "Halfway Home" was her best. Nothing like a beautiful voice singing a beautiful theme song from such a beautiful movie shot in one of the most beautiful countries on earth. Yes! Australia. Or, the Australian Outback to be more precise.
A very great movie.
I dearly love that song
Great movie a must see !!!!!!!
One of her best works. I saw her many years ago in a club in New York singing wonderfully, and she is absolutely consummate in a any live performance. One of the best singers I have ever heard.
Totally agreed Aj. I'm glad you enjoyed this and I appreciate your taking the time to comment! :-)
Jealous here in Maine! I've always wanted to catch her on stage. A lovely personality and I bet a fond memory to have had see her in a live performance.
Holy , wow! I was looking over Maureen McGovern's wiki page and spotted this title. Suddenly, a fuzzy recollection of the finale came to me, so I came here to listen. Sure enough, something I haven't heard in 35 years or more.
Yeah, I cried. I love the human experience and loved this song as a kid. So wonderful to have it returned to me.
"Halfway Home" appears on David Shire's CD At The Movies where Maureen sings with just a piano arrangement. That album is still available on CD and in digital form from Amazon Music. Maureen also recorded a version of the song on her own CD, Works of Heart, which appears to be much harder to find.
I didn't know how to find this song. Thank you so much for sharing data. I found it on spotify
@@JoseRicardoBetancourt Yay! BTW, if you're interested, you might be able to find the movie THE EARTHLING on DVD which includes Maureen's original version at the end titles. It was finally released in recent years.
A very gorgeous song and quite tearjerker if you also love the movie...too bad this song has never been reissued not even to a cd i think also her we could have it all
"Halfway Home" appears on David Shire's CD _At The Movies_ where Maureen sings with just a piano arrangement. That album is still available on CD and in digital form from Amazon Music. Maureen also recorded a version of the song on her own CD, _Works of Heart,_ which appears to be hard to find.
Such a versatile voice!
muy buena canción, deberían traducirla en español, muy buena letra..
They just don't play great stuff like this on the radio any more. Shame.
Touching and powerful - thanks Jerry
I had always wanted to see the movie "The Earthling" and finally did, just recently and it's true, a definite tear-jerker but worth each one! The song is lovely and I believed that when my mom heard it, she "let me" listen and we both fell in love with the song . With out the internet, we had a hard time trying to find out about the song or that it would have been easy if we just went to see the movie. Dad just wasn't interested in the movie so to him there wasn't any reason to see it. He was a dear man but both were children of the depression so if something wasn't a necessity, they rarely indulged in it. So Finally, I saw this movie. Thank you for uploading it. Mom passed last year and Dad 10 yeas before her. I think they both would have loved it as much as I did!
I'm so sorry to hear about your mom and dad but I'm so glad you enjoyed this. It's nice to know that someone else out there appreciates great stuff like this besides myself lol. The movie was indeed a tear jerker and this song was a heck of a way to top it off! Thanks so much again for your kind words and taking the time to comment! :-)
abeutifull song and moureens voice just perfect moureen was mt moms name
When I left home at 18 and had to live on the streets in Miami 1980-1982 I latter heard this song it was meaningful!
So many thanks for posting this beautiful, poignant, bittersweet song. I have loved this song for over thirty years.
Thank you for sharing! This movie was one of the few foreign language movies I watched during my childhood in China. It left a profound impact on me: the people, the nature, the spirit. Back then I didn’t know yet that two decades later I would move to Australia and became her adopted child. This is a country with people of down to earth kindness, just as people in my mother land China. What I might say though is the indigenous spirit might have not been celebrated in the movie but Australia has come along a long way to create her own unique cultural identity with the blessings of her First Nation people, diverse immigrants and boundless landscape. I still have tears of gratitude listening to this song, knowing that I was half way to my other home then without realising. Thanks again.
Beautiful song i love it 👏💖👏💖🔮
*Morning After* was from 1972...
Very sad movie and song
it's my favorite movie ever
Love this song.
the last movie I watched with my Mom . She passed away shortly afterwards. Special song and movie.
So sorry to hear about your Mom. I understand how this would be special for you. I have always loved the song! Thanks for your kind words and taking the time to comment. :-)
I saw The Earthling when I was 10 or 11...what a movie! Ricky Schroeder and William Holden were wonderful together. Halfway Home was the perfect song for this movie. When they play it at the end after William Holden's character dies and Ricky is on his own....I sobbed like a baby!
+Kellie North Comments such as yours is what made it all worth posting! Many thanks for taking the time to message me about this! Would you believe I have a music group on Fb and I once posted this and it didn't get a single like or comment. I've gotten to the point that I rarely post on there anymore as I've realized that people seem to be more concerned with other issues instead of music. Needless to say, the issues many of them post are meaningless to me lol! Anyhow, I'm so glad there are people as yourself that enjoy great stuff like this as I do. Thanks again and take care and be blessed. :-)
Wow, thanks for the spoiler. Thumbs down.
@@wintersbattleofbands1144 Not so much, really. The character Patrick Foley is dying from an illness, something which is established near the beginning of the film. If you have an opportunity to see it, especially a complete version with the end titles (where the song plays), you will probably enjoy the movie. The Australian scenery alone is spectacular.
Jerry, thank you so much for posting this treasure. This has to be one of Maureen's best and certainly most touching performances. It's hard to believe that it's not on any of her albums. This is the first time I've heard it aside from at the end of "The Earthling".
I totally agree and so glad you enjoyed it Adam! I converted this from 45 record as I've yet to find it on anything else either. Therefore, I live with the pops etc lol. Would you believe I posted this a while back on my fb music page and it didn't get a single like from anyone. I've learned that my so called friends are on fb for other things instead of music! lol. Again, it's people like yourself that make posting music worth while and I appreciate your taking the time to comment. :-)
You did a nice job converting the 45 Jerry, it sounds great to me. I can believe that about your fb posting. Most of what I see posted on fb is fake anyway. The people are not being real at all. This is a very real song performed by a very real lady, so it makes sense that it would not register with them. No problem Jerry, thanks again for posting. I think I've listened to it about 50 times now. Also, I just found out that there was an Australian DVD release of the Earthling back in March and it's available on Amazon. Now I can retire my old VHS copy.
Oh, I forgot to add that if I had ran across this on fb, I would have liked it and shared it for sure.
That's awesome Adam! Thanks so much for the kind words and again I'm really glad you enjoy the tune!
This song is on her album "Works of Heart Songs of Hope". Touchful and makes me cry when I listen, she can make this song touch deeply, seems like she`s singinghere next to me, specially at that part 'you reached for me and touched my heart...'
Thank you, Jerry. This song meant a lot to me. The movie struck me down with a feather and felt so empty after watching it. I'm glad the song's now here. Been looking a long time for a good sounding copy of this.
+Darren Francisco So glad you enjoyed it Darren. A friend of mine played this for me years back and I fell in love with it right away. I heard this song long before I ever saw the movie. I transferred it directly from the 45 record, as I've yet to find it available on anything else. I posted this on my Facebook page and believe it or not I didn't get a single comment OR "like" on it. It amazes me some of the stuff people on there can post, comment, and like, but yet they can't appreciate something as nice as this piece. I'm really glad there is still at least someone out there as yourself whom does! Many thanks for taking the time to thank me for this. Take care and be blessed. :-)
+Jerry Banks I have found it on torrent sights for my ipod.
+Sm16915 Cool!
Jerry Banks You're most welcome, Jerry. I'm not ashamed to admit I cried after watching the movie. And the song only made me feel empty a lot more for days. It was just a movie and yet I felt so sorry, for Ricky at the time.
+Darren Francisco Yeah I felt sorry for him as well. Very sad indeed.
I cried through this movie - and through The Champ. Ricky was an amazing child actor.
Now's he's an idiot...
Have this 45 and all her singles and albums except a rare one no one has ever posted called " The Bottom
line" if anyone has access to that song please post- complete her anthology of recordings !!!
Have you heard "Enough To Let Me Go" from _The White Lions_ or "Paper Bridges" from _Having Babies?_
"The morning after" is from 1972, not 74, ok?
The Poseidon Adventure is from 1972, but the Maureen McGovern hit version of "The Morning After" hit the US top 40 chart on July 14, 1973. It spent 11 weeks on the chart, and two of those weeks were in the #1 slot.
@@GrowlyBear917 Those were the days! Maureen mentioned somewhere that she recorded the song in December of 1972, but it received little attention at first. A few months later, "The Morning After won an Academy Award for songwriters Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn. A few months after that, Maureen's recording began its chart climb.
Loved this song from the first time I heard it at the end of that beautiful movie. Taped it from there. It took many years to get to UA-cam and I found it last year twice. The one was scenes of the movie and the other a french one. Your version is perfect with the best sound. Thank you. I didn't realize that Carol Connors of the group The Teddy Bears had written it. Will be posting this on a Facebook music group and a short time ago had posted five songs by The Teddy Bears. Definitely the Lord's plan for me to find this. God Bless. Barry
Maureen McGovern introduced this song at a telethon in early 1981, as I recall. I scrambled to record it from television immediately. Despite diligent searching (in a world without an Internet), I could not find the record. But persistence paid off eventually! McGovern has recorded it twice for later CD releases, but this original is only on the old 45, and in the movie itself. (The movie's audio mix is different, but seems to be the same recording.)
@@misterlyle., please, try to find and upload here, I`d like to see her singing this beauty song .
@@tatystar5724 Maureen's performance on that telethon I mentioned was lip-synced to what you hear on this video. In those days, it was just an audio recording that I made using a little Panasonic cassette recorder.
Maureen McCormick, Linda Ronstadt, Whitney Houston, and a few others have or had such beautiful voices. You don't really hear voices like that these days anymore.
Maureen McGovern and Celine Dion... Great singers with angelical voices, how I`d love to see them in person!
I love her beautiful voice and this song touched my heart.