I played this album almost daily when I was a younger man. I was working in a parish where I was misunderstood. Many years later, I resurrected it in cd form because I was assistant principal at a school at which the principal didn't like me and often criticized me in front of faculty and students. Both times this music got me over self-pity and even helped to subdue my anger. Oh, the politics of Catholic schools and parishes!

When I was a young girl struggling to find myself and to fit in , this book found me. It made an impression on me like no other book. I am now 62 and still don’t quite fit in but I am very comfortable with myself. I also had a beautiful yellow canary that I had named “Jonathan Livingston Canary” ❤

Neil Diamond never get's the credit he deserves as a song writer. He truly is one of the best.

@keithsymons5708

2 жыл бұрын

He is not one of the best he is the best ?

@matthazelby506

3 күн бұрын

What rock do you live under. He's credited the world over for his songs and arrangements? Next you'll be saying he's underrated,like a million other cretins on KZread.

The whole album is a work of art. It won the Grammy for Soundtrack of the Year for the movie.

Neil is The Poet of our times, with a profound spirituality and wisdom of life. Bravo to this wonderful piece of music! 👏👏👏👏👏

the most profoundly gut wrenching music...I feel privileged to be listening to this great musician...

@TouchofAlohaLMP

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget soul searching.

So glad I found this it has profound meaning to my mom and I. W e played this album in the back ground at the funeral when brother died in 1975, he was only 6. Mom is now 90 and I am 68 and It still has the same meaning to us. It seemed like he sang just for us. Profound and hauntingly beautiful

@markj7612

3 жыл бұрын

My sincere condolences. I hope that you have found a little peace, and I trust that you will be united again. Blessings.

@mattosullivan9687

2 жыл бұрын

Some folks see him as a musician with a guitar. The orchestration in this is brilliant. Beethoven would be respectful I just hope they do not meet for a long time

I feel like this is the journey of life, with all the beauty and love and sorrow and loss, all together in one piece of music.

When you have this and Peter greens music to look back and thank your father for taking you to the old record shop, go in a booth, and hear this . It makes my soul scream . It’s just beautiful. Dad I still cry like I did when I was 10.

Dieser aussergewöhnliche spirituelle Film gehörte zu meiner Jugendzeit und zu den schönsten Erinnerungen daran. Und die Musik begleitet mich durch mein Leben. Many Thanks for Neil Diamond!💜🌹 God bless you Neil Diamond!🙏

when my 2 kids were old enough to really comprehend the story, I gave them both the book and the album for Christmas, 10 years later they still thank me every year for this precious gift :-)

@nunoalexctx

7 жыл бұрын

still thankful to my father for giving me the album LP more than 30 years ago, by curiosity and chance, bought the book in a flea market and it was (and is) even greater, never seen the movie though. But as i said, even today i´m thankful to my dad for this "journey". Best gift ever, after 30 years it still feels brand new. PS: sorry for my bad english.

One of the best albums ever recorded, but which sadly is largely forgotten. sublime!!!

A message about being better every day.

One of the most special movies ever made, regardless what some filmcritics says, based on their completely ignorance on the subject and seemingly a lack of deep human wisdom.

I think Phil Donahue said it, and it's true, Neil Diamond is the poet of our times.

Neil Diamond writing the music for JLS -- his ultimate achievemnt IMHO. Thanks Mr. Diamond.

This album is the best of Neil Diamond. It expresses all of our feelings and emotions. It is the very best of Neil Diamond, even though he did not write all of it. When the music is played by an orchestra, it has so much meaning and almost makes it a classical piece. Dear Father is a dream and a prayer We dream while we may. Keep it up, Neil, you are the best!

I'm happy I found this movie musical of Neil Diamond's Jonathan Livingston Seagull which I saw in theatre way back 1976. Inspired and blessed. Thank you Neil for your beautiful reflective music 🎶🎶❤️. God bless. Merry Christmas! A Blessed New Year 2023!🎄🎄🎉🎉🇵🇭

I personally love the soundtrack done by Neil Diamond to "Jonathan Livingston Seagull". I get "Lost" in this music.

@thewanderingbookseller9769

3 жыл бұрын

YES!!! the two of them--Richard Bach and Neil Diamond--both touched into the much deeper levels of our being--through mind-opening ideas and soulful music. It takes me into a really deep heart space--a connectedness with LIFE!! Been in love with this since it came out!! :o)

I grew up listening to this vinyl long play, which I still have with me. Always loved it. Now that I’m 51 just lost my right leg in an accident. Neil’s music kept me afloat and willing to overcome the worst moments of this experience. Dear father is like a prayer to me, and Be represents the fall and subsequent resurgence of my life. I’m not lying when I say that this music is in good part the reason I’m still alive.

TENGO 73 ANOS Y HA REGIDO MI VIDA DURANTE LOS ULTIMOS 40.

The book and this album helped bring me to a place of healing. Now I am anchored off the coast of the small island of Baltra. A new horizon and the vast Pacific allows me to forget the wounds of war and to live for another day.

When I was a kid I used to look into my brother's stuff, one day I found this record (yes a Long Play record) so I played it and I got angaged with the music... very much long time after I was living far from home, wasn't a kid anymore... one day a friend of mine played it on a cd and i was gonig on very dificult time with no certain future and when i heared I just went back years and years... now i'm grown up person with children and everytime I have a problem I just listen this music... magic!

My soul is captivated by this perfect music. Thanks so much!

When he froze in the snow I cried like a baby. It really touched me.

As I loved the book, which I still recommend to all my friends and all my patients (I am a speech therapist), I am in love with this wonderful film and its extraordinary soundtrack that every time listening fills me with warmth thrills of emotion.

Neiltje, Jij bent mijn ziel. Mijn levenslicht. Mijn levenslucht.... Mijn kracht om te VOELEN..... M.P.C. Sangen 🎺🎺🌹🦋🦋🎸👑

I believe when this movie was released people did not understand the undercurrent message. What they were seeing was a masterpeace of art and message

Critics panned this movie, but scenes like this were breathtaking and inspiring. The music is majestic and sublime. I can’t watch it without feeling emotional.

@georgescortes7264

3 ай бұрын

Sublime

Este álbum es una de las más grandes obras de arte musical y cinematografía, y Neil nos la regaló para nuestra alma y corazón Gracias

LOVE this one!

A long time ago while driving through the Rockies between Colorado and Utah I played this on a cassette!!!! Very appropriate music to listen too while driving through such a magnificent view. It stays in my mind to this day from the 70's.

ik luister alle dagen naar deze album.beste songs van Neil . was 10 jaar toen deze film uitkwam.dank u Neil,deze muziek geeft mij een rustig gevoel.

I am 51 years young & when I was 5 years old my aunt Louise died & they played this at her funeral. It was her favorite song. She was 19 when she died. I miss her so very much. I cry hard every time I hear this soundtrack....

@snook7100

5 жыл бұрын

Mark Henderson Big (HUG)...

@hannahjbutterbean

5 жыл бұрын

My Grandmommy’s (my grandmother) celebration of life service was yesterday. This was one of the songs she requested along with another one from this soundtrack.

@surfinmuso37

5 жыл бұрын

What could be a greater honor than having having one of your songs requested at at funeral?

This album is so heart rending & heartrendingly beautiful, however, I have not seen these images until recently & worry that Gulls were sacrificed in settings not their own & the one at the rubbish tip was not rescued. Fabulous, classic, mindbending album thank you.

I saw the original movie.... just beautiful. Seeing this transported me to a melancholic setting. Beautiful music, photography, lyrics and Neil Diamond's interpretation is absolutely stunning. Loved it!

@andrer.newcomb6516

9 жыл бұрын

Me too. I always just keep remembering this film and the music. A couple of decades ago there were a couple of seagulls who visited us here in the desert. They stayed for a couple of days and then were gone. We're more than a hundred miles from any ocean. It was winter then.

@novemileal465

9 жыл бұрын

Andre R. Newcomb I guess since you were more than a hundred miles from the ocean and they are able to fly between 35-40 mph (depending on the species) survival was not a problem. They are interesting creatures.

@rsk9289

9 жыл бұрын

Andre R. Newcomb Seagulls will not fly over mountains so I expect they were "Atlantic" seagulls. I wonder if that was the dream of JLS; to fly over a mountain! Sometimes the only way to finish something is to fly over the mountain!

'the beautiful Jonathan Livingston Seagull with music by the ever soulful Neil Diamond'' .. This is a preciously introduction, for the singer-song writer, and greatest musician, NEIL DIAMOND... His music should be pesente in all the conservatories of music, around the world .. Neil, I wish your enormous talent will still be with all of us for many, many years, and you to enjoy it also.... Much love..

This must be beautiful because I feel teers in my eyes.

Heavenly!!!!!!!

We live, we dream, we are, you are, we all are one, with gratitude. Hello to a wonderful world all around us.

@davidharrison431

8 жыл бұрын

www.google.com/search?q=happiness&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

@mikeh5958

6 жыл бұрын

David Harrison True ..We Are All Galactically Connected, Equal And The Miracle Of Solar Dust, Physics, Biology, Chemistry & LUVE. Apprecciation Might Be Logical For Most .... But It's Luve I've Discovered That Opens Beings To This Realization ....Usually Thru The Quantification Of Regular Doses Of .... PAIN ;-)

@mikeh5958

6 жыл бұрын

Luve This Orchestration Of The Odysey

@ViVo-qi5oh

3 жыл бұрын

I'm form Thai people I think so

Magnífico, emocionante, maravilhoso.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Great film..Got to see it in Noethern Calif. At a theater in Piedmont area.. A friend accompanied me and my son...was really beautiful on a big screen..absolutely fell in love with it, and Neid Diamond! Loved the theme of the movie, was drawn to this entertainers' message...to this day, I still listen to this music, is very meaningful, love the singer songwriter, has been along time favorite of mine!!

I would trade all that I am, all that I've learned, all that I will ever be for a chance to be that free...

I like to see Jonathan as a dove of peace, fly, fly and bring common sense into the dialogue of world leaders. 28-2-2022 

Après avoir été exclu de son clan pour sa diifférence Jonathan part à la quête de sens de sa vie. Il va se ressourcer ,retourner à l'essence..c'est celà l'odyssée qui existe depuis la nuit des temps. J'en suis réellement bouleversé prêt à pleurer des seaux de Bonheur.. Je suis maintenant persuadé que le hasard nous donne réellement ce que l'on cherche dans la Spiritualité . Le matériel est un accessoire ...

The price to be paid for persons having talent & therefore are envied by many stupid ones: Is Very High ...... But are still higher the satisfactions that, a talented person receives throughout its life, day after day...minute by minute, and this is the only thing that it really own in life . By many blows that others have tried to give you .. don't forget that: One talented person, is talented for everything...Even to ignore all kind of nonsense...

Thanks so much for posting this... Unforgetable...

You are an esoteric soul 🙏

I would trade all that I am, all I've learned, all that I will ever be...to have a chance to be that free...

Simply stunning... I remember playing this piece in my school band,... But watching this video really puts it in the right place... Gorgeous

saw this movie when it came out in the 70's and was just stunned by the beauty and the songs it touched me deep inside although i didn't really understand it all, knew that it just made me feel something deep in side my soul i was just too young ...But know i do understand it

The man sees life with heart not just the eyes, FABULOUS music, an inspirational piece giving us all hope.

i love the movie, i love the music i like all (the music) of Neil Diamond

Un pur chef d’œuvre tant au point de vue images que musique ... Merci Neil Diamond 👏👏👏♥️♥️♥️ Russo Polonais dont les parents habitaient Anvers et ont pu fuir le nazisme . Quoi d’étonnant que cet homme aie une telle sensibilité et un tel don ... Il a les racines pour . 👍🏻👏👏👏♥️♥️♥️♥️ à l’infini .

Not surprised he won a high award a month ago,and was honoured by the President of the USA. Congrats my friend!

My kind of music - one can listen and listen and listen...and not get enough of it!

@markhenderson1276

7 жыл бұрын

Amen.

Lindo! Obrigada em partilhar!

Film magnifique, magique.💖

Splendide et çà n'a pas pris une ride !! Magique !

Cest magnifique ! ❤❤❤

Neil Diamond , quando escreveu as músicas para o filme, estava em estado de Graça. MUSICAS e letras magníficas. Pura emoção. God Bless. Outubro 2020.

This was played at my aunts funeral. She was 19 & I was 5, I'm now 51 and it still tears me up every time I hear it, plus my Dad passed away a couple months ago. They were very close. He use to call her squeegee. I miss them both so much!

Que preciosidad de música. Llevo 40 años escuchándola y cada día me gusta más.

i loved ,i love ,i will always love this movie !! thanks !!

always loved this story, if JLS can do it, we can.

!! Ik vergeet het nooit... Op 1 november 1974 keek ik naar de prachtige film... zeer ontroerd door deze muziek... en de dag daarop, 2 november 1974 werd m'n allerliefste zoon Lieven geboren. Ik luister én kijk nog altijd naar dit meesterwerk... héél mooie herinneringen !! DANKUWEL !!

Lee Holdridge also did a lot of the orchestral work for John Denver's music. His 1974 Emmy winning album "An Evening with John Denver" owes a large debt to Lee Holdridge. So, yes, I agree, thanks for bringing Lee Holdridge's work to our attention. Its a great effort.

If you want to be happy, find out what you love most of all. Throw into this love with courage, perseverance and the maximum determination. The reward for your efforts you will be condemned and the exclusion of your friends and loved ones. However, if you refuse to give up, if you survive the loneliness and the tight hold of your love, you find that you have new friends, new family, that your values and shared ideals. With them fly farther and higher than you can imagine.

Richard Bach, author of Jonathon Livingston Seagull is in serious condition following the crash of the plane he was piloting. Maybe while listening to this, could you offer prayers or positive energy for him?

Zum Träumen und abschalten vom Alltag einfach fallen lassen. Danke tausend Dank

j'ai découvert "Jonathan "il y a 40 ans,avec ravissement; depuis je continue et le redécouvre un peu plus à chaque fois avec un plaisir qui ne tarit pas.Merci mon beau GOELAND !

Beautiful music with ditto pictures, I am very touched.....

j'aime beaucoup bon film bonne vidéo merci

I used to listen to that while driving through the mountains and gorges!

One truly amazing movie, with fantastic music. One of my favourites when growing up and finding myself. Greetings from Denmark!

j'aime beaucoup super vidéo merci

Obrigada!!

I am in Awwww over this album ! It has given me an insight to so so much ! All about everything in life !

Great stuff! Congratulations to Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge and you!

This is music at the highest level. Neil is a living Johnathan! Why it takes such a long time for the panel to decide his induction ino the Hall of Fame?

Stange and graceful. It does justice to the book.Jonathan lives within us all...Anything and everything can be achieved with determination and desire. Thankyou. X

Beautiful!

Profound

Neil Diamond is one of a kind! His music is transcendental, and transports you to a place where you live your most transcending dreams! Neil's Music harmoniously propels Jonathan Livingston Seagull himself, his journey and you to those heights where life's challenges are nonexistent, and you soar to the zenith of inspiration where you almost live in purity that is unknown to humankind! This powerfully moving work of art cannot but come from a mind that is powerfully transpired by the only true Creator! It is mind-blowing, potentially elevating one to infinity!

Inspirational, always!

j'aime beaucoup merci

bravo très belle vidéo merci

Outlaw1257, thank you for bringing to attention Lee Holdridge's accomplishments. He should be applauded for his contribution!

exquisite music, photography, and message this story provides We soar, we dream ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

Neil is the diamond.

It is a very moving song and it touch mysoul

super vidéo merci

Neskutočne nádherná dojímavá hudba, ako film sám ! Krása !

I have received tremendous inspiration from reading each of Richard Barch s books. So grateful to him. Slowly but surely I now tune to KZread and enjoy these wonderful postings. Awesome. Beauty in sharing

Das cenas mais lindas!

Jonathan Livingston Seagull ....Fly Jonathan

I have loved. smiled and cryed when I sauw this amazing movie.. and I was not the only on e !!

Thank you !!!

@Pescarusolitar1

9 жыл бұрын

♥

Great music, wonderful singers

Super ❌⭕❌⭕ for Jonathan Livingston Seagull yayyy