After watching one of my favorite From here on out, I rag no one movies which puts a clear, positive and appreciative perspective on life, I read a review of same on a site regarding the film ‘Bang The Drum Slowly’ – “Mention this film to any guy over 40 and watch him get all weepy.” Michael Moriarity and Robert De Niro are fantastically brilliant in this gentle movie that literally epitomized the 1970s and the kindness and security held in the United States at the time. The line “From here on out, I rag no one” is the final line of the film which come right as the closing theme begins, and yes, men will cry at this point! I know I always do.

Ouch. I’m 44–and this is a song that I am posting but maybe you’ve never heard it–99% of the featured material here is iTunes or Rhapsody or whatever ready–but the End Theme to the movie Bang The Drum Slowly by Stephen Lawrence is a song that sums up the Kind Promise of the 1970s. Sort of: the 1970s that existed in a way where everyone was, by comparison to the times in which we live, compassionate, easy, mellow and empathetic.

The reviews at The Online Film Critics Society, http://ofcs.rottentomatoes.com/movie-1001634/reviews.php tell it all in regard to what the film was all about. The end theme featured in the speed chart above smacked me in the face because rarely does one here such a simple theme embody a situation: one where, as stories so often tell us, a young friend’s sudden unlucky death makes us see the compassion within–as a Debra Winger movie–IE, ‘Shadowlands’, ‘Terms Of Endearment’ or ‘The Bucket List’ (each an I Dare You Not To Cry cancer movie, something with which we are all too familiar). No one died so many times on screen of cancer like that of a Debra Winger.