Does anyone happen to know what the title of the song is that plays over the opening credits and/or who it's by?
It's the one with the line in it that goes: "Let my poor hear go on beating..." or something close to that.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thnx.
The song is Let Me Go by Randy Newman. Barbra Streisand covered it on her Stony End album.
shareI'm listening to Streisand's version right now!! I have to say Randy Newman's version is better, probably because he wrote it and so obviously understands where the song came from. But, in a pinch, her version isn't bad.
shareWhat I really love about this song is that it's used first at the beginning, to be wistful, then in the second and third halves to be more ironic. It plays when William escapes jail (while he's mingling with the college students) to mirror the casualness of his mingling with college kids in the opening scene of the film. And it's played again at the end, to demonstrate that William and Jane are, indeed, "young," and are "letting go" of their boring lives.
It warms my heart to know that Randy Newman got one of his first big breaks by recording a song for a film by Robert Mulligan.
"What I don't understand is how we're going to stay alive this winter."