Such joyful melancholy. It's like Neal Hefti was telling us, hurry, enjoy them while you still can, the sixties are about to end, and they'll never come back...
Not really. He had a song very similar to the Odd Couple theme on his Hefti in Gotham City album in 1966. His message is more like, "I can keep recycling the same tunes and still make a mint!"
I have loved this since I was a child. Now I am 58 and my wife and I consider ourselves as the 'The Odd Couple' as we met later in life in our forties we laugh and joke a lot and mess around like we were in our twenties whilst our peers who married much younger than us are or seem quite stayed in their relationships. But at the end of the day we love each other and love this song as it is us!!! Thank you for posting xxx
I'm 40 and the first "Odd Couple" was almost a decade and a half before my time. I'd never even heard of "The Odd Couple" until "The Odd Couple II" came out in '98 and my dad took me to the theater to see it but I thought it was hilarious. Sometime after that he rented the first one for me because I wanted to see it and even as a 15 year old 90s kid after I saw the first one it actually became one of my most favorite movies along with the second one. Still remains one of my very favorites to this day.
This that SH*T! Been listening to it nonstop for the past 5 days!
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Didn't know there were lyrics to the theme song ! Neil Simon the legendary playwright who wrote the original Odd Couple play just passed away several days ago, he was 91 ! August 2018 🎹🎺🎵
You can tell that when the play was originally written, the characters were going to be named Felix Madison and Oscar Ungar as it fits the neat and sloppy theme better, and then they switched the names.
I have never heard these lyrics before, ever. It sounds like somebody wrote them quickly to fit the melody, once the song was a hit. I’m sure the song was slapped onto the next Neal Hefti album. The words have little to do with the play, the movie, or the TV show and seem to insinuate the characters are a closeted gay couple. It reminds me of several tv shows of the era, where the theme doesn’t match the direction the show went in.
Very clever melody by Hefti, recall the 70s tv show. Not a fan of the vocals though. Should have used someone like Sarah Vaughn to give a personal touch.. Thanks
real music. when people wrote melodies. when harmonic content meant something. when musicians could play. when singers could sing. all without cheating and fixing it all with a computer.
Neal Hefti did not write the lyrics. (Thank Goodness as they are terrible) they were written by Sammy Cahn after the success of the movie. I don't think Cahn ever saw the movie or show. Felix and Oscar were never known as "the couple" and they were not "two peas in a pod" which means they were the same. They were total opposites!
Such joyful melancholy. It's like Neal Hefti was telling us, hurry, enjoy them while you still can, the sixties are about to end, and they'll never come back...
Not really. He had a song very similar to the Odd Couple theme on his Hefti in Gotham City album in 1966. His message is more like, "I can keep recycling the same tunes and still make a mint!"
Best decade ever ! .. like the 90s . The 60s and late 50s had something so magical
@@enricosanchez894 He was the best composer for movie music and definitely had his own style but none of it ever sounded recycled .
@@enricosanchez894 Translated: "YMCA - Yesterday's Muck Cooked Again".
All these years I never knew there were words to this lol
I have loved this since I was a child. Now I am 58 and my wife and I consider ourselves as the 'The Odd Couple' as we met later in life in our forties we laugh and joke a lot and mess around like we were in our twenties whilst our peers who married much younger than us are or seem quite stayed in their relationships. But at the end of the day we love each other and love this song as it is us!!! Thank you for posting xxx
I never knew this theme had words. Wow
I'm 75 and I remember seeing the movie during the early 1970s.
This song by Neil Hefti is pure gold
I am 48 and have always been moved by this theme.
I'm 40 and the first "Odd Couple" was almost a decade and a half before my time. I'd never even heard of "The Odd Couple" until "The Odd Couple II" came out in '98 and my dad took me to the theater to see it but I thought it was hilarious. Sometime after that he rented the first one for me because I wanted to see it and even as a 15 year old 90s kid after I saw the first one it actually became one of my most favorite movies along with the second one. Still remains one of my very favorites to this day.
I love this composition. You’re a class act Mr. Hefti!
Love this, great Neal Hefti score. Always watched The Odd Couple on TV - such great times, great actors, great composers, sadly no more!
Thanks for sharing this vocal rendition of The Odd Couple movie theme song Miles and Dizzy.
Great song and great movie
This that SH*T! Been listening to it nonstop for the past 5 days!
Didn't know there were lyrics to the theme song ! Neil Simon the legendary playwright who wrote the original Odd Couple play just passed away several days ago, he was 91 ! August 2018 🎹🎺🎵
Great theme tune to a wonderful dry comedy
Love this theme!!!
I miss the Odd couple TV 📺 series.
Beautiful music
Very nice!
You can tell that when the play was originally written, the characters were going to be named Felix Madison and Oscar Ungar as it fits the neat and sloppy theme better, and then they switched the names.
Actually Neil Simon mentions an unseen character named Felix Unger in another play, "Come Blow Your Horn," some years before "The Odd Couple".
Whaddya got?
I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches.
What’s the green?
It’s either very new cheese or very old meat.
I’ll have the brown.
😁😁😁😁
Yer not gonna eat that are yer 😉
The odd couple 😊😊😊
Felix was based on Neil's brother Danny.
Play it at 1.25x speed, you might actually listen to the theme song at the same pace as the TV show version.
Beautiful Time
God Bless 🌍❤️🎬✨🎶🎶
Tony Randall will always be Felix Unger to me
I have never heard these lyrics before, ever. It sounds like somebody wrote them quickly to fit the melody, once the song was a hit. I’m sure the song was slapped onto the next Neal Hefti album.
The words have little to do with the play, the movie, or the TV show and seem to insinuate the characters are a closeted gay couple. It reminds me of several tv shows of the era, where the theme doesn’t match the direction the show went in.
Futurama
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1-1/3 minute of instrumental. 1.20 beginning of vocals.
Play this back at 1.25 speed. You can find it in the setting on the lower right of the video.
Very clever melody by Hefti, recall the 70s tv show. Not a fan of the vocals though. Should have used someone like Sarah Vaughn to give a personal touch.. Thanks
He also wrote Girl Talk and did the great theme to How To Murder Your Wife(1965)
Its still $2.50 including the luggage🚕🗽
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real music. when people wrote melodies. when harmonic content meant something. when musicians could play. when singers could sing. all without cheating and fixing it all with a computer.
There were a billion cheap hotels in Manhattan
You fucked up a good piece of music
Neal Hefti did not write the lyrics. (Thank Goodness as they are terrible) they were written by Sammy Cahn after the success of the movie. I don't think Cahn ever saw the movie or show. Felix and Oscar were never known as "the couple" and they were not "two peas in a pod" which means they were the same. They were total opposites!
Whose here because of friends ?
Whose here because of the 'Odd Couple' reboot starring Matthew Perry?
*Who's
...and no, I'm here because of Neil and Neal.
Fuck Off.
Whose here because of the 'Odd Couple' reboot starring Matthew Perry?
No Im here because of the real Odd Couple with Jack Klugman and Tony Randal
@@1223jamez Real Odd Couple was Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, as pictured on the album cover.
Those people have my pity.
fuck all modern remakes
Lyrics awful.
Take It Back! Now!
But good voices
I cannot decide which is worse.
The lyrics or the music that repeats itself over and over.
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