1973 soundtrack album by Neil Diamond
Jonathan Livingston Seagull is the soundtrack album to the 1973 American film Jonathan Livingston Seagull, recorded by singer-songwriter Neil Diamond and produced by Tom Catalano. The album marked Diamond's return to Columbia Records, and grossed more than the film itself. It was Diamond's ninth studio album, and his first album after his successful 1972 live album Hot August Night. It won the 1974 Grammy as Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special.
Irvine Herald reviewer Willie Freckleton said that "Be" is "classical Diamond singing a very powerful ballad."
Track listing
Side oneTitle | Line notes |
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1. | "Prologue" | And here begins our story – the sky, the sea, the flock. | 3:19 |
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2. | "Be" | Introduction of Jonathan – his flight and fall. | 6:28 |
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3. | "Flight of the Gull" | Jonathan is carried to the heights of ambition, and to near catastrophe. | 2:23 |
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4. | "Dear Father" | Battered, and near death, Jonathan asks for reasons. | 5:12 |
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5. | "Skybird" | Returning home to show what he has learned, his acrobatics only serve to anger the flock elders. He is put on trial, and forever…outcast. | 1:12 |
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6. | "Lonely Looking Sky" | Alone and adrift. | 3:12 |
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Side twoTitle | Line notes |
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1. | "The Odyssey (Be – Lonely Looking Sky – Dear Father)" | And so begins a journey, an odyssey, a test of the spirit. | 9:28 |
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2. | "Anthem" | "Transcend, purify, glorious." | 3:03 |
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3. | "Be" | Jonathan returns to teach the flock. | 1:06 |
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4. | "Skybird" | The lesson | 2:18 |
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5. | "Dear Father" | Rebuked again by the elders, Jonathan attempts to rally the flock. | 1:14 |
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6. | "Be" | Recapitulation and farewell to Fletcher | 3:26 |
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Charts and certifications
Neil Diamond's subsequent album "Serenade" and "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" have earned combined 27 gold discs in Australia.
As of September 1976, the soundtrack was bigger success than the movie and it grossed 12 million dollars (movie grossed 2 million dollars)
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Personnel
- Produced by Tom Catalano
- Engineered by Armin Steiner
- Executive Art Director: Ron Coro
- Art Direction and Design: David Larkham, Michael Ross
- Album Design and Photography: Ed Caraeff
- Inside Cover Portrait Photo by Tom Burke
Orchestra
- Arranged and Conducted by Lee Holdridge
- Musicians: Paulo Alencar, Phil Azelton, Israel Baker, Marilyn H. Baker, Paul Beaver, Myer Bello, Arnold Belnick, Richard Bennett, Dixie Blackstone, Hal Blaine, Harry Bluestone, Samuel Boghossian, Hoyt Bohannon, Owen Wilson Brady, Larry E. Carlton, Donald Christlieb, Gene Cipriano, Gary L. Coleman, Chase Craig, William Criss, Rollice Dale, Isabelle Dashkoff, Vincent N. DeRosa, Assa Drori, Robert Dubow, David A. Duke, Jesse Ehrlich, John Ellis, Gene P. Estes, Victor S. Feldman, Henry Ferber, Ronald P. Folsom, Norman Forrest, James Getzoff, Caesar Giovannini, Philip Goldberg, Harris Goldman, Emory L. Gordy Jr., Ralph E. Grierson, Allan Harshman, William Henderson, Thomas R. Hensley, Arthur Hoberman, Claire Hodgkins, Luella Howard, Selene Hurford, Harry Hyams, Jules Jacob, John T. Johnson, Yukiko Kanei, George Kast, Pearl Kaufman, Richard S. Kaufman, Raymond J. Kelley, Jerome A. Kessler, Louis Kievman, Lou Klass, Robert Konrad, Jacob Krachmalnick, Raphael Kramer, Bernard Kundell, William Kurasch, Carl LaMagna, Michael Lang, Diana Lee, Gayle Levant, Marvin Limonick, Abe Luboff, Arthur Maebe, Leonard Malarsky, Jack Marsh, Lew McCreary, Ida Sue McCune, Peter A. Mercurio, Joseph Mondragon, Milton E. Nadel, Wilbert Nuttycombe, Michael S. Omartian, Joe Osborn, Robert Ostrowsky, William B. Peterson, Hugo Raimondi, Sven Reher, Joseph Reilich, David B. Roberts, Nathan Ross, Johnny Rotella, Sheldon Sanov, Ralph Schaeffer, Gordon Schoneberg, David Schwartz, Sidney Sharp, Stan Sheldone, Thomas N. Shepard, Ray Siegel, Henry Sigismonti, Louis Singer, Arthur C. Smith, Clark E. Spangler, Julian Spear, Sally Stevens, Dennis St. John, Robert K. Stone, Anthony Terran, Joseph DiTullio, John DeVoogdt, Jackie Ward, Andra Willis, Tibor Zelig
- Bob Mitchell's Singing Boys
- Burbank Staff
- Will Abar - stage man
- Jim Atherton - stage man
- Donn Fallenbuchel - electrician
- Andy MacDonald - recorder
- Bill Gernand - recorder
- Bill Lambert - maintenance
- Tom Beckert - maintenance
- Richard Hayden - projectionist
- Jim Winfree - record recording administrator
- Doc Siegel - mixer
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