I first heard this song I guess it's been 38 years ago. I must have gone to see this movie back then at least 10 times ... mostly to hear this song. After all these years, it haunts me still. It's been almost as many years that I put away singing and acting to make a living. Now that I'm old (69) I've picked up my very first string instrument ... a baritone ukulele my Mother bought me when I was in the 6th grade. This is the song I still remember -- and this is the song I'm learning. I don't sing any more - but surprisingly - one still can learn things, so I've been working on an instrumental arrangement on the Bari for this. It's a very complex and beautiful ballad and I'm not sure if I'll every master it -- but it is so lovely -- and it brings back so many memories of when Sally Field and I both were young. The world was so full of promise. Funny how time can steal so much of that. Glad to hear this again and remember. Thanks for putting this up.
Haunted! Yes, that's the word for it. Only this week on You Tube I viewed and listened to every version on You Tube. Somehow, here's a song that gets better. Here's a song with sheer melody...something modern songwriters (well, they are writing chants, really) have forgotten about. Can recommend the Michael Crawford and Sarah Mann versions highly.
@@susiecrawfish5363 I agree , wonderful story ... I would guess this song has had the same effect on countless numbers of people in that amazing way , in that way that only music can. One of the greatest pop songs ever written, one of the greatest voices of all time and how it fits with the theme of the movie itself so well .... inspiring powerful stuff !!
Only Jennifer sings this song like she has lived it. I've heard other's cover "so it goes like it goes", but there is no life or soul in how it's sung. Thank you Jennifer for all the beautiful sentiment and longing you put into each song I've ever heard you sing.
I have known the Dusty version for years and never heard this original till tonight, and though I love Dusty, Jennifer gives it wayyyy more poignancy. really a breathtaking vocal performance.
I played this song at both of my parent's funeral services. Both children of the working class. Mom was brilliant but could not go to college for lack of funds. Dad was a union man for 50 years. "Bless the child of a workingman, she knows too soon who she is; Bless the hands of a workingman, he knows his soul is his."
For the most part, I don't listen to country music, but when I sat for the final credits of this outstanding movie called "Norma Rae," as a man, I felt this song right down to my feet. It is probably one of the most beautiful country songs I have ever heard. It might also have catapulted Jennifer Warnes' career.
Hauntingly beautiful. This song has rolled around in my head for the past 4 months and I could not place it. Then out of the blue it hit me where I had heard it. Amazing. I still love the song and the memories of this movie,
"Maybe what's good gets a little bit better, and maybe what's bad get's gone...." Profound lyrics. I love how this song sounds like it plays backwards before it moves forward. Genius! This song won for best original song at the 1980 Oscars. Winning over two magnificent songs sung by Melissa Manchester--she still holds the record for the only artist to have two of her songs nominated for an Oscar on the same Oscar award night.
I was a young girl when this movie came out. I remember watching with my mother; it was on HBO ("Home Box" back then). I didn't really understand it, but thinking back, I guess innately I knew it was profound. It impacted me because I never forgot about it. I recently watched it again (Hulu), as an adult this time, and now I understand why I was so drawn to it. Very powerful and poignant....
@@DogbiteW having this and Rainbow Connection in the same year is sort of the song equivalent of Wizard of Oz having to compete with Gone with the Wind, right?
I, too, love this song. Wonderfully harmonized and arranged. Somehow it feels so organic, natural, which kind of sweeps along and sweeps you along with it.
I absolutely love this movie and Sally Field was absolutely fantastic and the this song is haunting but perfect for a movie that speaks to having a social conscience. It won best original song at the Oscars. I would also say that another song from the movie Working Girl with Melanie Griffith had a fantastic song "Let the River Run" written and performed by Carly Simon. It also won for Best Original Song at the 1989 Oscars. Very uplifting and inspiring also.
Many who were young in North America at the time of 'Norma Rae's' release heard this beautiful song and were struck by it, and David Shire, the composer, a lesser known trooper who slipped easily from the New York stage to Hollywood to orchestrating pop, was at last handsomely rewarded with an Oscar for his work. If only 'Best Song' winners today had this grace on a regular basis. As for Martin Ritt's film itself, it stands as a testament to the misunderstood and often derided 1970s: I can't imagine anyone today - not even Netflix, footing the bill for a story about a barely literate lower working class female southerner and a Jewish labour activist attempting to start a union in a greasy textile mill - maybe...if it were set in the costumed past, say, the 'ragtime'/menshavik era of 1905...or in another country [with subtitles!]...but in the [then] present day? - the idea seems like a bad investment...and there's all the difference between that oft presumed to be less enlightened time. The 70s were in no way perfect, and socially a great deal HAS improved since then, but now everything seems to be glazed in the 'slick'; the aesthetic of the truly shabby (except in select cases where racial divides are the focus) is avoided, even banished...and the idea that a struggling underclass is still the experience of a great many in the most technocratic of societies is quietly avoided.
Sally Field is one of the most talented actress of her generation , This film is simply a réal masterpiece , not simply a movie but a sensitive human story play and script by so Much sensitivity and so Much talent ... the kind of film that you can Never Forget if you have the chance seeing it
Thanks for posting. A great song and wonderful movie ("Norma Rae" about a real life hero Chrystal Lee Sutton) about a time and people that are too far gone. These were people who fought for what was right despite the possibility of harm to themselves. It’s a shame that we no longer recognize the sacrifices from those who helped make our middle class as we become part of history.
Hauntingly beautiful song and prophetic in unintentional ways. The unions heralded the end of the textile industry. Those jobs are in 3rd world countries overseas, lost forever is the character of small town America, decimated and destroyed. But hey, you can always learn to code!
No, corporate greed leading to off-shoring heralded the death of the textile industry. Unions were/are just people trying to get a fair shake. If we had a government not bought by the rich, they'd have done something about it.
Before you tube, I saw the beginning of Norma Rae and they played this song. I looked to see when the movie came on again so I could tape it on VHS so I could listen to it again and again.
At a concert in Roswell Ga Jennifer sang Happy Birthday to me and came down from the stage and kissed me. Wowser. She is a personality and this song is hauntingly beautiful.. She is a lady!!!
The consummate actor -- Compass Players, Actor's Studio... Tony Award for Angels in America (his performance as Roy Cohn was harrowing)... An extraordinary artist. He is missed.
I still will never get why some in the industry have criticized this song for winning. It is probably one of the best Academy Award Original songs of the last 40 years. If anyone wants to criticize a choice it should be giving the award to "You Light Up My Life" over Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better"
40 years later and "The Rainbow Connection" is still a legendary piece of the fabric of our popular culture... this song has been forgotten because it's nothing special. The Academy dropped the ball, surely.
Yes, The Rainbow Connection was an Oscar worthy song, but I've got to give the edge to It Goes Like It Goes because as many have said, it ties in completely with the theme of the movie and I give Jennifer Warnes' rendition a little bit more of a thumbs up than Jim (Kermit the Frog) Henson's vocal. Sorry, any other year yes, thank goodness "Through the eyes of Love" didn't wn!
This beautiful song won an Academy Award that was greatly deserved. "Rainbow Connection", written by Paul Williams for The Muppet Movie, was heavily favored to win.
Tbh I think both songs are good. Many people hate this song because it beat rainbow connection but both had beautiful lyrics and writing so yeah. Both songs were phenomenal
Okay, a powerful song about a working class struggle. Yes, I am biased thinking that " Rainbow Connection" from Muppet Movie should have won the Oscar for Best Song in 1979.
Ain't no miracle bein' born People doin' it everyday Ain't no miracle growin' old People just roll that way So it goes like it goes and the river flows And time it rolls right on And maybe what's good gets a little bit better And maybe what's bad gets gone Bless the child of the workin' man She knows too soon who she is And bless the hands of a workin' man He knows his soul is his So it goes like it goes and the river flows And time it rolls right on And maybe what's good gets a little bit better And maybe what's bad gets gone Yeh it goes like it goes like the river flows And time keeps rollin' on And maybe what's good gets a little bit better And maybe what's bad gets gone
@SoulStylistJukeBox please give credit to the songwriters, David Shire and Norman Gimbel. This song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1979.
This is a great song but "Rainbow Connection" should've won the Oscar for Best Original Song. There is a reason why "Rainbow Connection" is on iTunes and "It Goes Like It Goes" is not
totally agree, it was a travesty ....just discovered Carpenters cover; gorgeous. Paul Williams says his life changed when an angel sang his 'We've only just begun'....think he meant Richard?
It's a tough call, really. Certainly not a travesty. They're both perfect songs - the sheer craftsmanship behind them is breathtaking; and they're both profoundly moving in completely different manners and contexts. I think this song won on the strength of the lyric -- it communicates so much in so few words, whereas the lyric of Rainbow Connection, which is terrific, mind you, has a couple of slightly awkward phrases, is just a little less polished. It doesn't take anything away from the song, particularly in the context of a kids' movie (not that the standards for kids' movies should be lower, but because kids think a little awkwardly themselves. It's a perfect song for the film, and I have not a single gripe with it). Honestly, for my money, the best song in The Muppet Movie is "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday." "Connection" and "Goes" are two amazing songs that both deserved the Oscar nod. If pressed, I'd have gone with this one, but I would have agonized over it.
Shane, the reason "It Goes Like it Goes" -- or any given song -- is not on iTunes has to do with rights and licensing and ownership and other legal matters. I assure you it's not lack of demand. I'm not even saying the demand for this song is as great as the demand for "Rainbow Connection" -- I'm sure it's not. But it has nothing to do with the quality of either song or, again, any song on iTunes or Spotify or any other streaming/sales platform. You'd be amazed how complex and tangled the ownership of film music in particular can get. It's a clusterf--k.
@@rkomgm3932 No the nominess were Fonda Mason, Midler, Field and the last one escapes me but NOT Davis. She may have been nominated when Sally won in 1984
I miss the 20th century when we actually talked about ideas, policy and seemed to strive for brotherhood and improvement of poverty....now we are divided by fools ....and movies are just crap. Nothing of substance...either in movies...and certainly not on the national stage. Am a union girl from way back and a proud granddaughter of a Greek immigrant. Unions pulled many in the middle class.
I like Jennifer Warnes, but I'm just gonna say that this is one of her weaker moments. The fact that this forgettable and dreary-sounding number won the Academy Award over superior songs like "Rainbow Connection" and "Through The Eyes Of Love" proved that even back then, the Academy was making questionable decisions. Besides, her later Oscar Winning duets "Up Where We Belong" and "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" blow this one completely out of the water.
I respectfully disagree. Although this song wasn't a mainstream commercial success as the others you cite, it's beauty and emotional impact packed a powerful punch.
I first heard this song I guess it's been 38 years ago. I must have gone to see this movie back then at least 10 times ... mostly to hear this song. After all these years, it haunts me still. It's been almost as many years that I put away singing and acting to make a living. Now that I'm old (69) I've picked up my very first string instrument ... a baritone ukulele my Mother bought me when I was in the 6th grade. This is the song I still remember -- and this is the song I'm learning. I don't sing any more - but surprisingly - one still can learn things, so I've been working on an instrumental arrangement on the Bari for this. It's a very complex and beautiful ballad and I'm not sure if I'll every master it -- but it is so lovely -- and it brings back so many memories of when Sally Field and I both were young. The world was so full of promise. Funny how time can steal so much of that. Glad to hear this again and remember. Thanks for putting this up.
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Haunted! Yes, that's the word for it. Only this week on You Tube I viewed and listened to every version on You Tube. Somehow, here's a song that gets better. Here's a song with sheer melody...something modern songwriters (well, they are writing chants, really) have forgotten about. Can recommend the Michael Crawford and Sarah Mann versions highly.
Barnett Langford thank you for your story. The song and your words made me weep.
It's right up there with "Summer of '42" for me. Haunting tunes both
@@susiecrawfish5363 I agree , wonderful story ... I would guess this song has had the same effect on countless numbers of people in that amazing way , in that way that only music can. One of the greatest pop songs ever written, one of the greatest voices of all time and how it fits with the theme of the movie itself so well .... inspiring powerful stuff !!
Every once in a while a perfect made- for- a- film theme song is written,which will be a timeless classic. This is one.
It's hard to believe this song is almost never heard anywhere.
This is the only version of this song I ever need to hear. It's absolutely perfect.
Only Jennifer sings this song like she has lived it. I've heard other's cover "so it goes like it goes", but there is no life or soul in how it's sung. Thank you Jennifer for all the beautiful sentiment and longing you put into each song I've ever heard you sing.
I have known the Dusty version for years and never heard this original till tonight, and though I love Dusty, Jennifer gives it wayyyy more poignancy. really a breathtaking vocal performance.
I played this song at both of my parent's funeral services. Both children of the working class. Mom was brilliant but could not go to college for lack of funds. Dad was a union man for 50 years. "Bless the child of a workingman, she knows too soon who she is; Bless the hands of a workingman, he knows his soul is his."
thinking of my dad too, who died in 2022. a truck driver, teamster, for 30 plus years. worked so hard for his family. miss both of my parents so much.
For the most part, I don't listen to country music, but when I sat for the final credits of this outstanding movie called "Norma Rae," as a man, I felt this song right down to my feet. It is probably one of the most beautiful country songs I have ever heard. It might also have catapulted Jennifer Warnes' career.
Hauntingly beautiful. This song has rolled around in my head for the past 4 months and I could not place it. Then out of the blue it hit me where I had heard it. Amazing. I still love the song and the memories of this movie,
"Maybe what's good gets a little bit better, and maybe what's bad get's gone...." Profound lyrics. I love how this song sounds like it plays backwards before it moves forward. Genius!
This song won for best original song at the 1980 Oscars. Winning over two magnificent songs sung by Melissa Manchester--she still holds the record for the only artist to have two of her songs nominated for an Oscar on the same Oscar award night.
I was a young girl when this movie came out. I remember watching with my mother; it was on HBO ("Home Box" back then). I didn't really understand it, but thinking back, I guess innately I knew it was profound. It impacted me because I never forgot about it. I recently watched it again (Hulu), as an adult this time, and now I understand why I was so drawn to it. Very powerful and poignant....
Yes Sally was superb! A divine interpretation of the downtrodden and forgotten workers of the past!!
Absolutely, unquestionably the most underrated Oscar-winning song of all time!
And one of the best ballads in the history of recorded music.
@@DogbiteW having this and Rainbow Connection in the same year is sort of the song equivalent of Wizard of Oz having to compete with Gone with the Wind, right?
@@mattmorris2141 Yes.
I'm thinking of my daddy, who went home July 6th, 2008 after a long life of working for his wife and kids. I love you and miss you, daddy!
I, too, love this song. Wonderfully harmonized and arranged. Somehow it feels so organic, natural, which kind of sweeps along and sweeps you along with it.
t his was absolutely the BEST rendition of "It Goes Like It Goes" that I have ever heard! This is as close to perfection as one could get.
I agree. Love her voice.
Nothing close to her rendition.
I absolutely love this movie and Sally Field was absolutely fantastic and the this song is haunting but perfect for a movie that speaks to having a social conscience. It won best original song at the Oscars. I would also say that another song from the movie Working Girl with Melanie Griffith had a fantastic song "Let the River Run" written and performed by Carly Simon. It also won for Best Original Song at the 1989 Oscars. Very uplifting and inspiring also.
I loved that movie!
Rest in Peace Norman Gimble - thank you for this beautiful piece of music
I'm not sure what the context of your comment it, but the music in this piece was written by David Shire.
That's true - but Norman Gimble was also Co-Writer of this song!
Norman Gimbel wrote this amazing lyric. David Shire’s music is just.wonderful, like he is.
Beautiful song and so appropriate for Norma and what happened to her! Sally was brilliant in her portrayal!
Many who were young in North America at the time of 'Norma Rae's' release heard this beautiful song and were struck by it, and David Shire, the composer, a lesser known trooper who slipped easily from the New York stage to Hollywood to orchestrating pop, was at last handsomely rewarded with an Oscar for his work. If only 'Best Song' winners today had this grace on a regular basis.
As for Martin Ritt's film itself, it stands as a testament to the misunderstood and often derided 1970s: I can't imagine anyone today - not even Netflix, footing the bill for a story about a barely literate lower working class female southerner and a Jewish labour activist attempting to start a union in a greasy textile mill - maybe...if it were set in the costumed past, say, the 'ragtime'/menshavik era of 1905...or in another country [with subtitles!]...but in the [then] present day? - the idea seems like a bad investment...and there's all the difference between that oft presumed to be less enlightened time. The 70s were in no way perfect, and socially a great deal HAS improved since then, but now everything seems to be glazed in the 'slick'; the aesthetic of the truly shabby (except in select cases where racial divides are the focus) is avoided, even banished...and the idea that a struggling underclass is still the experience of a great many in the most technocratic of societies is quietly avoided.
Sally Field is one of the most talented actress of her generation , This film is simply a réal masterpiece , not simply a movie but a sensitive human story play and script by so Much sensitivity and so Much talent ... the kind of film that you can Never Forget if you have the chance seeing it
I totally agree - and the score and this song with it - both written by the supremely talented David Shire - are part of the charm. :)
Sally inspired me to be the best shop stewardess I could be. I'm retired now but Union will always be in my heart.
Agree:) It’s Forest Gump good
At 1:56 when the music soars and changes key- it gives me goosebumps every time..
That's a really nice moment and the music does soar up to her, but I don't think there is an actual key change.
If you have ever worked fast food or retail and punched a clock for minimum wage,which I have, this cascading melodic whirlwind is written for you.
Beautiful song, fabulous singer!
Thanks for posting. A great song and wonderful movie ("Norma Rae" about a real life hero Chrystal Lee Sutton) about a time and people that are too far gone. These were people who fought for what was right despite the possibility of harm to themselves. It’s a shame that we no longer recognize the sacrifices from those who helped make our middle class as we become part of history.
One of the sweetest songs EVER!!
Makes me cry every time. So Beautiful.
Haunting Melody.. Great Performance...
MASTERPIECE!!!!
Wow. Very heart touching. Norma Rae is also an classic.
A great movie that I’ve seen many times. Great acting. And yes a beautifully haunting song
Hauntingly beautiful song and prophetic in unintentional ways. The unions heralded the end of the textile industry. Those jobs are in 3rd world countries overseas, lost forever is the character of small town America, decimated and destroyed. But hey, you can always learn to code!
No, corporate greed leading to off-shoring heralded the death of the textile industry. Unions were/are just people trying to get a fair shake. If we had a government not bought by the rich, they'd have done something about it.
Well Barnett I am alkmost 67 years "young" and I still think that this i s THE BEST movie song ever.
Better than "The Rainbow Connection".
It's a beautiful song. I had forgotten that it was in the movie, Norma Rae. I just finished watching it
a truly perfect song.
Before you tube, I saw the beginning of Norma Rae and they played this song. I looked to see when the movie came on again so I could tape it on VHS so I could listen to it again and again.
At a concert in Roswell Ga Jennifer sang Happy Birthday to me and came down from the stage and kissed me. Wowser. She is a personality and this song is hauntingly beautiful.. She is a lady!!!
Such a beautiful song! Dissonance just gives it flavor.
this is absolutely one of the best movie songs which I have ever had the privilege of listening to!
I love how the music swirls like the river.
May god bless you all in this time remember we’re all gods children let’s be kind to one another god bless peace to all
Remembering Ron Leibman today, who was part of this wonderful movie.
The consummate actor -- Compass Players, Actor's Studio... Tony Award for Angels in America (his performance as Roy Cohn was harrowing)... An extraordinary artist. He is missed.
Those 3 people downvoting this song clearly has no damn taste for good music.
Or, maybe it's because this song beat "The Rainbow Connection" which is superior to this song, period!
This song heals me
Brava! Perfect voice for this lovely song.
I still will never get why some in the industry have criticized this song for winning. It is probably one of the best Academy Award Original songs of the last 40 years. If anyone wants to criticize a choice it should be giving the award to "You Light Up My Life" over Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better"
The Rainbow Connection
40 years later and "The Rainbow Connection" is still a legendary piece of the fabric of our popular culture... this song has been forgotten because it's nothing special. The Academy dropped the ball, surely.
RAINBOW CONNECTION FTW!
Yes, The Rainbow Connection was an Oscar worthy song, but I've got to give the edge to It Goes Like It Goes because as many have said, it ties in completely with the theme of the movie and I give Jennifer Warnes' rendition a little bit more of a thumbs up than Jim (Kermit the Frog) Henson's vocal. Sorry, any other year yes, thank goodness "Through the eyes of Love" didn't wn!
well thats a bit rough, this is a great song@@stephenw1785
My sentiments for this election year
An Oscar winning song. I remember the night it won.I was so glad I love this song.
I like the mill scenes with this music and shots of Baby "Norma Rae"!
Miss Jennifer is A CONSUMATE Artist!
This beautiful song won an Academy Award that was greatly deserved. "Rainbow Connection", written by Paul Williams for The Muppet Movie, was heavily favored to win.
Tbh I think both songs are good. Many people hate this song because it beat rainbow connection but both had beautiful lyrics and writing so yeah. Both songs were phenomenal
I mean, there must be a reason why this song is mostly forgotten and the other one is legendary...
Love love love
Okay, a powerful song about a working class struggle. Yes, I am biased thinking that " Rainbow Connection" from Muppet Movie should have won the Oscar for Best Song in 1979.
I love this song plus "The Flannerty Bird Flew Around Mars'
Very heart touching.
If I see the movie and miss this first song I feel cheated. So gorgeous.
Wonderful good luck to you
This is a great song. It's *almost* as great as Rainbow Connection, which was robbed of a well deserved Oscar. Hard take. But I stand by it.
This is such a pretty song
R. I. P. Norman Gimbel 😔😔😔
Ain't no miracle bein' born
People doin' it everyday
Ain't no miracle growin' old
People just roll that way
So it goes like it goes and the river flows
And time it rolls right on
And maybe what's good gets a little bit better
And maybe what's bad gets gone
Bless the child of the workin' man
She knows too soon who she is
And bless the hands of a workin' man
He knows his soul is his
So it goes like it goes and the river flows
And time it rolls right on
And maybe what's good gets a little bit better
And maybe what's bad gets gone
Yeh it goes like it goes like the river flows
And time keeps rollin' on
And maybe what's good gets a little bit better
And maybe what's bad gets gone
Jennifer Warnes never received as much acclaim as she deserved.
Love so very much...
Deserved Oscar winning song
@SoulStylistJukeBox please give credit to the songwriters, David Shire and Norman Gimbel. This song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1979.
JW did some fine work... This is only one of them...
This is a great song but "Rainbow Connection" should've won the Oscar for Best Original Song. There is a reason why "Rainbow Connection" is on iTunes and "It Goes Like It Goes" is not
totally agree, it was a travesty ....just discovered Carpenters cover; gorgeous. Paul Williams says his life changed when an angel sang his 'We've only just begun'....think he meant Richard?
It's a tough call, really. Certainly not a travesty.
They're both perfect songs - the sheer craftsmanship behind them is breathtaking; and they're both profoundly moving in completely different manners and contexts. I think this song won on the strength of the lyric -- it communicates so much in so few words, whereas the lyric of Rainbow Connection, which is terrific, mind you, has a couple of slightly awkward phrases, is just a little less polished.
It doesn't take anything away from the song, particularly in the context of a kids' movie (not that the standards for kids' movies should be lower, but because kids think a little awkwardly themselves. It's a perfect song for the film, and I have not a single gripe with it).
Honestly, for my money, the best song in The Muppet Movie is "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday."
"Connection" and "Goes" are two amazing songs that both deserved the Oscar nod. If pressed, I'd have gone with this one, but I would have agonized over it.
Shane, the reason "It Goes Like it Goes" -- or any given song -- is not on iTunes has to do with rights and licensing and ownership and other legal matters. I assure you it's not lack of demand.
I'm not even saying the demand for this song is as great as the demand for "Rainbow Connection" -- I'm sure it's not. But it has nothing to do with the quality of either song or, again, any song on iTunes or Spotify or any other streaming/sales platform. You'd
be amazed how complex and tangled the ownership of film music in particular can get. It's a clusterf--k.
@@dazieger I wondered why I couldn’t get it on iTunes!
I have no idea how this song beat "Through the eyes of love" for an academy award.
Exactly!!! I am NOT impressed.
Or The Rainbow Connection!
Workers with God
Soooooo touching !!!
But I still think Judy Davis A Passage to India) should have won over Sally!
She wasn't a nominee that year.some wanted Bette Midler for the rose but I'll take Sally any day! Her performance is memorable
@@markwhitman9029 she was
@@rkomgm3932 No the nominess were Fonda Mason, Midler, Field and the last one escapes me but NOT Davis. She may have been nominated when Sally won in 1984
I miss the 20th century when we actually talked about ideas, policy and seemed to strive for brotherhood and improvement of poverty....now we are divided by fools ....and movies are just crap. Nothing of substance...either in movies...and certainly not on the national stage. Am a union girl from way back and a proud granddaughter of a Greek immigrant. Unions pulled many in the middle class.
Has anyone noticed the similarities between this song and Kacey Musgraves Rainbow?
Child support gone today thank you Jesus
this beat out Rainbow Connection. I think this song is musically superior in many ways... but my heart wanted Rainbow Connection.
kevinfan726 seriously ???
@@rkomgm3932 You seriously think this is superior to "The Rainbow Connection"?
@@yosefdemby8792 yes I do
@@rkomgm3932 Why do you think that?
I feel like rainbow connection should have won
This beat Rainbow Connection? Nice song but really?
Yeah, definitely one of the most glaring musical Oscar snubs. But what does the Academy know really?
I like Jennifer Warnes, but I'm just gonna say that this is one of her weaker moments. The fact that this forgettable and dreary-sounding number won the Academy Award over superior songs like "Rainbow Connection" and "Through The Eyes Of Love" proved that even back then, the Academy was making questionable decisions. Besides, her later Oscar Winning duets "Up Where We Belong" and "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" blow this one completely out of the water.
I respectfully disagree. Although this song wasn't a mainstream commercial success as the others you cite, it's beauty and emotional impact packed a powerful punch.
Problem with this catchy tune is that it's too red.
The problem with your brain is that it's a little too ignorant and outdated.
Simon Deacon
BAHAHAHAHA! *high five*
It doesn't have all the colors of the rainbow.
She should have married Burt
Glen Campbell sang it best!
Workers with God