Midnight with the stars and You ( The Shining End Titles)

[@Matt78collector]

I am writing this on February 16th, 2024. It is the 90th anniversary of when this song was recorded (February 16th, 1934). Cheers to 90 wonderful years of this masterpiece!

[@jacktorrance9688]

It's almost exactly 10 years younger than Rhapsody in Blue (February 12th 1924), another jazz classic from that era.

[@exit13productions50]

I used to work at a large hotel and this is exactly how music would sound when there was a party in the event room and you’d hear the music droning through all the long hallways in the other parts of the hotel

[@ardentlines814]

Exit13 Productions God that sounds scary.

[@judahYsrael8499]

Me too...The Plaza Resort and Spa.😮

[@BCS1105]

Exit13 Productions Kubrick did an incredible job when it came to every part of his films but especially when it came to realism.

[@MelissaAndersonTheFutureLegend]

As a... caretaker ? 😮

[@astontrainspotterandroblox]

Aaaaaaaaaaa🤪🤪🤪🤪

[@blainebaxter7684]

For some reason this ending is creepy but yet calming

[@kiefer6326]

Hells never been so welcoming.

[@danielandlucycartoonsmadne5885]

That’s what I love about this ending. The film puts you in full panic during the maze chase and gives you a chance to calm down at the end. However there is one mystery we don’t know and we have to figure it out somehow. That’s what I love about this horror film

[@AbandonedMines11]

There's nothing wrong with liking this kind of music. All music is mankind's expression of emotion, whether it's rap, rock, raggea, or classical. People need to be open-minded to ALL types of music. This doesn't mean that one has to like all kinds of music; just appreciate it for what it is (or isn't) and what it's trying to communicate to you, the listener.

[@almondmilk738]

Yup

[@theoldwayoffilming7309]

I love this piece it's called midnight the stars and you and it's perfectly used in movie I find my self listening to it often

[@spookypan4363]

@@theoldwayoffilming7309 hello my older account

[@mattball7362]

Spot on

[@tamari1910]

@Bronson Garrett what this person is saying is a scam :)

[@alfiewhyte951]

My theory that Jack is physical and mental trapped inside the hotel. The ghost and figures he meets convince that belongs there and drive to insanity. When Grady says "You are the caretaker, you've always been the caretaker" I think he's stating that Jack has always been there. But, it's kinda like a Groundhog Day situation; I believe that Jack is re-living this time at the Overlook over and over again. Repeating everyday made him bored and eventually leading to the idea of murdering his family, the original idea from Grady. Thanks for reading.

[@EhCanadianGamer]

Could be that. Or it could be a mixture of both Jack's Demons and whatever supernatural force that takes place in The Overlook Hotel. And when he dies, he's part of the Hotel's past. "I've always been here".

[@theoldwayoffilming7309]

That's a pretty good idea

[@BCS1105]

Alfie Whyte I believe that Jack is the reincarnation of a former caretaker there and that explains why he is on the photo. The Overlook isn’t just a hotel. It is a living entity that takes over any host who will take them. Willingly or not. Jack became part of The Overlook and that explains why in the deleted scene of the original ending, which has never been released, Mr Ullman tells Danny & Wendy that they never found Jack’s body. The Overlook almost absorbed Jack. It possessed him and then took him in.

[@katherinewilson1853]

It's a karmic/past life thing. He just returns to it because he never wakes up to what he actually did/is now/and could become. So he succumbs to the same situation over and over.

[@murtomlarinhughes9179]

Thankyou for the idea

[@TheSpasticAvenger]

This song is hauntingly beautiful, even after almost 80 years it still holds up.

[@Matt78collector]

Almost 90 years now.

[@caileanshields4545]

The most unsettling horror movie ending of all time. No question about it.

[@CiscoDuck]

+Cailean Shields Yes, for sure... and The Exorcist.

[@detectivealejandro6448]

Cailean Shields I got the question I think I means that jack became part of the hotel

[@pedrobakale7180]

masterpiece

[@EhCanadianGamer]

Yeah. It's not jumpscares, or horrifying deaths or monsters. It's horrifying notions we're a afraid to acknowledge. That is the unknown.

[@agirl4677]

@@detectivealejandro6448 you're right

[@robertpolanco1973]

Personally, I like the song of "Midnight, The Stars and You" pretty much. It is a classy song.

[@TROPICADIA]

The sound of people in the end is the most hair-raising part to me. It's very subtle, but ludicrously effective.

[@Lugamo94]

Here for the 100th anniversary of this iconic party.

[@free322001]

"Great party, isn't it?"

[@83jbbentley]

I've been here, sir? I've always been here...

[@leolouddd]

All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy.

[@GIRISHKUMAR-rf3ef]

Kubrick was a perfectionist i mean look at the shot.. Framing is so perfect

[@DMalltheway]

GIRISH KUMAR I do amateur photographs like that

[@ughugh351]

@@DMalltheway 🤡

[@richardevans9003]

I suspect that the shot moving in towards the picture is actually shot backwards moving AWAY from the image. Like Sue Snell walking backwards from Carrie's grave and then run in reverse

[@uslines]

Must be remembered that this tune was composed decades decades before the film. Never the less, many fans of the movie were introduced to '30's music thanks to the film. Was Kubrick's best, Nicholson's best, and Bowly's best.

[@free322001]

But the photo is supposed to be from party in 1921. But 1920s music was Jazzy and would not have worked the same as this band song.

[@MrJamieMurph4141969]

In my opinion, this party seems more appropriate or fitting as a New Years Eve party than for Fourth of July. How ironic or strange, considering the two holidays are six months apart.

[@free322001]

@@MrJamieMurph4141969 Very true. It has New Year's written all over it. I think they went with the 4th instead, as Jan 1 the place would have been snowbound. Can't imagine a Tux on the 4th, even then. Who knows.

[@EduardoSnapper-wr8qs]

⁠@@free322001 Interestingly in the book many of the significant events in the hotel’s history seems to have happened in the 1940s

[@lessuray1]

The music with that ghostly after tune is better and the original music.

[@connerwood7969]

The best ending in movie history.

[@jacktorrance9688]

Best goddamn movie ending from Timbuktu to Portland Maine, or Portland Oregon for that matter.

[@nickzamudio8894]

​@@jacktorrance9688bourbon on the rocks!

[@LuvvyDuck]

Love this. I like how you hear the applause and someone whistling at the end.

[@silothegreat]

Pink Floyd’s song “welcome to the machine” ends the same way. Pretty interesting!

[@vausemike]

I am totally in love with this track. I love the feel of it. That swimmy sound. I know it's been put through a reverb tank of some description for the purpose of the film, but what a sound.

[@AlextheKungfuMaster]

@cb81987 Nice stolen comment.

[@r1dethesky]

What I love about this movie is that Kubrick put so much symbolism behind it. You could sit there and watch it over, and over, and over, and still not catch everything. He truly was a genius. It doesn't help that he passed away back in the 90's, now all we can do is speculate.

[@gadgettherobotstudios6055]

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

[@geraldthebusdriver3491]

Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball 1921 July 4th 1921 July 4th 2021 WOW its been 100 years I am here looking at this for the one hundred year anniversary to when Jack was at this wonderful party at the overlook hotel

[@CarlyAlison317]

It's basically saying that he now carries on the curse of the hotel. Like, the next year when a new family comes to take care of the place, Jack will be the ghostly caretaker like Grady was for him.

[@brabazon10]

when I first saw this movie in the 80s, it gave me goosebumps at this point, as Al Bowlly's version with the Ray Noble band was what my grandfather used to play on his 78 on his gramaphone in the 50s. He'd accompany the song on his piano. wonderful moment for me. Kubrick really gave this novel a typical Kubrick "oddball" movie scenario. The drive along the river from Portland to Timberline Lodge is wonderful.

[@hisluckienstar614]

i love this song. a beautiful piece of work...when i hear music like this i also think of my wonderful grandmother who lived during the era the music was popular. and imagine her life...

[@mednos]

This Zoom-IN, this craft, this perfection, wow, i watched shining more than 100 times and there is still so much new each time i watch a Kubrick film. Best director ever, trust me.

[@JamesBondStarWarsFan1983-by6qp]

1980 was such a brilliant and great year for movies and 1980 was the year of The Shining, The Empire Strikes Back, Raging Bull, The Blues Brothers, Caddyshack, Alligator with Robert Forster, Saturn 3 with Farrah Fawcett, Airplane!, Stir Crazy, and The Elephant Man. I Love The Shining so much. The Shining is one of my absolute favorite films, it had stellar direction by Stanley Kubrick, and Jack Nicholson along with Shelley Duvall both did a great job with the film. Jack Nicholson was excellent as Jack Torrance, Jack Torrance's famous line "Here's Johnny!" is one of the best movie quotes of all time, and the hedge maze ending was amazing. I also love The Empire Strikes Back, Alligator, and Saturn 3. The Empire Strikes Back was an awesome Star Wars film by Irvin Kershner, Alligator with Robert Forster was a very good horror film, and Saturn 3 with Farrah Fawcett as well as Moonraker and The Black Hole are the most underappreciated sci-fi films of all time. Overall, 1980 was one of the best movie years, The Shining by Stanley Kubrick is one of my all time favorite films, and The Shining along with The Empire Strikes Back, Raging Bull, The Blues Brothers, Caddyshack, Alligator with Robert Forster, and Saturn 3 with Farrah Fawcett are my top 7 absolute favorites of 1980.

[@Yapostadodat]

A throwback to the ending of "Dr. Strangelove", it captures the same eerie nostalgic quality of dead voices speaking from past through an ironically sweet tune. The echoey sound of the tune also captures the HUGE space feel of the hotel nicely!

[@TROPICADIA]

It's the spirit aspect of it. I like to consider that after Wendy and Danny leave the hotel and Jack rots in the snow, the hotel just sits around with still air around it, and since the spirits don't need to show a physical manifestation of themselves to anyone, they celebrate. Which is also why I like the fade-in and echo to the song and voices. You hear the voices even though they're not there, like what happens when you're alone in a house for too long.

[@Emidretrauqe]

I just noticed how much more pleasing it is at the end of a movie like this to see the credits just flash up as opposed to scroll across the screen.

[@psywizard880]

makes me feel like putting on a ballroom dress and go dancing. Love it!!!!!!!!!!!

[@damiancarranco2049]

Many have stated before, but I tend to believe that the clapping and the talking at 3:11 are from the ghosts that are trapped in the Overlook Hotel, endlessly reliving July 4th, 1921. Even if it may sound like Behind the Scenes of the film production wrapping up, it was genius for Kubrick to leave the audio of the clapping and the talking to give the impression that what we are listening to are the ghost of the hotel.

[@andrewcalcagno8272]

On July 4th 2021, the Overlook Hotel 4th of July ball will be turning 100 years old! I'm not sure how I am going to celebrate this occasion yet, but I will definitely be rewatching The Shining again this 4th of July.

[@tadeodewiesent1482]

¡Excelente sonido! 👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@sscalise03]

Perfect music. I love this old fashioned sound.

[@jamesnorrington44]

This was really another era that we can never live.This sound fills me with joy and melancholy.This sound is beautiful

[@kenny33467]

What a perfect song to adorn such a fantastic movie.

[@AshStandish]

I was just at the hotel which inspired the set for this movie-- The Ahwahnee, in Yosemite. Hundreds of us were all dressed 1920's. This song is lovely.

[@psywizard880]

One of the best films Jack has done!!!! I remember the first time I heard this music, I was facinated with it. Thanks for uploading!!!! It was released on my Mom's birhtday when she was just 11 years old. Wow, mom will be 80 soon.

[@free322001]

Song was released 1934. If mom was 11, she was born 1923. Your comment is dated 15 years ago, about 2007, to 2008. Your mom was 85, plus or minus depending on the month.

[@arya1369]

This ending is perfection. The music, the images, everything.

[@THX1205]

Very Nice Tune!

[@007Julie]

In my mind this movie and the song "Hotel California" are tied together, remember "you can check out anytime you like but you can never leave"... btw this is an amazing song! love it =D

[@moisestorres8634]

@nemesisgenius That’s an easy one to answer. Hotel California was released in 1976. Stephen King published The Shining in 1977. No relation.

[@michael120.]

saw the movie last night at an actual theater for halloween and man i could not get enough of how this song beautifully and hauntingly reverberated across the room

[@carrickcote]

This beautiful song was used back in the 90's for a Smirnoff vodka advert (shown on TV & in cinemas). The ad was set on an old ocean liner with the passengers appearances changing when seen through the vodka bottle & glass. It's so lovely, but there again, most of the music from that era was lovely.

[@JimNova72]

Midnight, the Stars and You ... Today, thanks to the magic of Al Bowlly and Ray Noble, we can measure, with nostalgia, EVERYTHING we have lost : the grace, charm, melancholy of a world now lost forever. In the ever listening again, we have the consciousness of what was ... Thank you. (Sorry for my english, I am french)

[@highnote32]

I'm 25 and I like this song. It came out like 50 years before I was even born.

[@Matt78collector]

This song is around 90 year old now. It was recorded in the early 1930s

[@zachrichardson8492]

Looks like 17 people need a good ole' "correcting"

[@leolouddd]

this is good & pretty music.

[@Scruffdogg1973]

Haha! @Zach Richardson, that was classic!! (Yeah, I caught it)

[@toadstoolrapter9553]

27 people now

[@astontrainspotterandroblox]

Zach Richardson more liek jack nicholson

[@d4rkscarletwitch]

AstonTheRobloxian2910 it’s Jack Torrance

[@davyaquilesdemoura]

É FANTÁSTICA, MARAVILHOSA, SENSACIONAALL!!! OBRIGADO PELA POSTAGEM!!!!

[@savedbyzero3554]

Todays so-called Horror Movies DOESN'T COME CLOSE TO YESTERDAYS CLASSICS.............!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Rastinfilm]

Edwin Bitsoe because the audiance gets dumb also mowadays. art cannot be sold as well as slashers..and today is about selling every fuckin thing in the most prosperius way! this is how the world will end. At least the one we like and know.

[@chocolatebarr7504]

Hereditary and Get Out are the only films I can point to being in the same ballpark as the classics.

[@agirl4677]

Hereditary? The Witch? Get out? It Follows?

[@d4rkscarletwitch]

Edwin Bitsoe Us Halloween 2018 and get out and the sequel to the shining doctor sleep the only good ones that came out in the modern year and there is more to come and I hope they are great like the shining

[@GabePauleyV.P]

@@chocolatebarr7504 hereditary sucks ass don’t you dare compare it to an actual great film Get Out

[@IzanamiKitsune]

this gave me goosebumps first time i saw it amazing !!

[@Malkovich90]

I love this song, it makes me relax.

[@mohanicus]

i love they way you here the crowd clapping for the band at the end off the song you can picture jack sitting at the bar in his tucks drinking his bourbon on the rock talking to lloyd and grady in the gold room with all the other guests.

[@watergoddess9]

Thanks so much for this! I love the erie quality of this song, it fit the scene so well! I think the sound of many of the songs from the 20's had that distant, haunting quality.

[@whogoderetedigo52]

Wonderful. This is such a great piece of music. Thank you for posting.

[@rem2267]

This scene is the scariest one in the whole film!! (Best tracking-shot EVER!) And it is made extra-ultra creepy with that song playing. Sound is all murky, as if it were coming from an ethereal place, time and entity. Perhaps.... a ghost? Sends shivers up and down my spine EVERY time. Teriffic upload, Cheers!

[@mkervelegan]

I can never walk down Michigan Ave and look at all those old Chicago hotels without thinking of this tune...

[@tommy1gtr]

3:12...the end applause from the house of ghouls and ghosts of the hotel watching these events play out....

[@stones2204]

J'adore cette chanson..........film fantastique........

[@titomente1]

i love this song and the movie..

[@mrspivvy]

I love it. I have turned into quite an al bowlly fan purely as a result of this movie

[@Matt78collector]

Same. There's nothing better than Ray Noble and Al Bowlly.

[@Cicero....]

awesome music, awesome nicholson Face

[@pedrobakale7180]

I'm scared the ghost that whistles at the end of the credits

[@Gargoyle124]

yea i agree with you there frank sinatras fly me to the moon is my favourite. i could listen to it all day lol this sorta music wont be forgotten

[@JimNova72]

Midnight, the Stars and You...Aujourd'hui, grâce à la magie de Al Bowlly et de Ray Noble, nous pouvons mesurer, avec nostalgie, TOUT ce que nous avons perdu : la grâce, le charme, la mélancolie d'un monde à jamais disparu. En le réécoutant éternellement, il nous reste la conscience de ce qui a été... Merci.

[@chiaraballabeni9143]

a classic. a fantastic and unique classic.

[@MrRedrum91]

Perché ogni finale dei film di Kubrick mi sembra sempre il più bello che abbia mai visto? Genio!

[@musicglobal5908]

anyone notice there is no mention of ray noble or al bowly in the credits ? shorly they deserve some credit. for the use of there music ! this is why it took me nearly 20 years to find out what the band was but i had some idea this could be al bowly when i first saw this in 1993 i think al bowly would be turning in his grave if he knew he did not get any credit in this film ! [why bela burtok ?

[@chocolatebarr7504]

Bela Bartok was credited for his piece "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta". Composers who were also credited: Krzysztof Penderecki, Wendy Carlos, Rachel Elkind and Gyorgy Ligeti. Not sure why Al Bowlly/Ray Noble (or any of the composers for the ballroom scenes) weren't included though.

[@gabbygabs8271]

If this were about the Gold Standard, that guy in 0:58, holding Jack's arm from behind might have been Woodrow Wilson. Also, until now, we don't know how Jack was in that photo. (1:08)

[@finnmcmisslefanchannel-pt3xu]

I doubt it, Woodrow at the time looked way older than him

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

that looks nothing like Woodrow Wilson lol.

[@SuperMusicizmylife]

This ending is amazing. Creeps me out everytime. I think I'm in that picture. :)

[@padraicohora]

this movie is a masterpiece-fact i think this ending scene and credit music was the iceing on the cake

[@pyconsable]

Great story and acting, read the book, brilliant

[@MrWackypackages]

Beautiful

[@DansHouse2022]

omg I love this song. Was a really nice calming piece to put at the end of that suspenseful movie.

[@Jeph629]

So Jack shined too! What an ending!----complete circle/perfect screenplay!

[@RenegadeGunn]

Song makes me wanna cry because it sounds so peaceful and quiet

[@jasonfoster2949]

No Wait, July 4th 1921 to July 4th 2023 It’s your 102 Year Ago. LOL, Wow! Incredible

[@chrisgardiner2215]

And there's 21 pictures on the wall 🤔

[@Replican815]

Oh, and it's funny just how awesome this song is, despite only having 9 lines.

[@MHol38]

This is the coolest ending of any movie I've ever seen!

[@danielandlucycartoonsmadne5885]

I love how the ending remains a mystery. We don’t know for sure what happens

[@Unixilandia]

Gorgeous Music....

[@hotrodius]

I saw this when I was a kid about 3 years after it came out and it blew me the f*** away.

[@Itasattc]

The Shining is one of those films that's great to watch while the sun is closing its flight across the sky and sinks down into the stars. You get attached to it, its horrifing and magical at the very same time. It's different from any "horror" movie ever made. It has the plot of a well made drama, but the images of a brillant horror. You just don't get better than that. You have the depressing 1980's style camera angles and shots of the mopey hotel, which ultimately is the scariest part of all.

[@CaptBonnet]

A fantastic ending by a phenomenal director. The melody becomes conscripted into Kubrick's psyche which gives the song a haunting appeal.

[@computerpurple]

The use of this song for the closing of the movie has such a haunting and lasting impression. I remember the day i saw this movie that night when i was trying to get to sleep i kept hearing this song in my mind. Creepy

[@marylancaster5038]

love this song

[@kuznietsova1234]

The man at the upper part just right of the middle of the display at 0:59 looks like a badass. Perfect stash by they way haha. Great song love the 1930's musical time period. :)

[@neilandlucilleoconnell6791]

overlook hotel july 4th ball 1921

[@JaxenRossisback]

Thumbs up if you're watching this on the fourth of July. Especially in 2021.

[@davinrousseau8422]

@@JaxenRossisback I'm coming back in 2021. Meet you there!

[@a.jlewissonicski5278]

Ok

[@d4rkscarletwitch]

See u guys again in 2021

[@Muirton66]

The music score in this whole movie is haunting , makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up , but I guess thats what the director intended , in my opinion one of the best films ever made......classic !!

[@missvidabom]

Yes, I would love that! I heard this song first on the John Bachelor show at exactly midnight. And it's taken me a couple years to find it (thanks finally to KZbin!!) I'd love to download it.

[@ebenezermarley]

Soooooo spooky and so fabulous!

[@psywizard880]

i loved this song first time i heard it. awh, the movie was equally great .

[@Ariane67]

Thank you to you two. These words touch me very deeply, I must say, and JimNova72 expressed exactly my feelings...

[@ollebrevid]

i held that picture today. my uni has a shitload of stanley kubrick props. that pic is one.

[@ghschris01]

i love this song!!!!

[@14harlow1]

Love Al Bowlly and this music!

[@beatlesopusnintendo]

great song

[@giangosdrakoulas]

The spookiest end of a movie ever. The sickest romantic song. The ultimate director !!!

[@KarmicOmen]

This 1934 song is my favorite in the movie (funny, the picture is labeled 1921 and pre-dates the song). This song is the mostly associated with The Shining, but no one knew the name ... thanks for posting!

[@Matt78collector]

They used 1930s songs because it was when electric recording was more common than the 1920s, thus easier to enhance the sound quality, so they used 1930s songs that sounded like 1920s songs.

[@luigiallegretti1444]

Grande Kubrick ,

[@bodiechannel6252]

I love the song

[@M_Sonata]

I love the piano solo at 2:38

[@kellygardner1669]

I LOVE 'THE SHINING'... Bring on 'Doctor Sleep'!!!