Alan Bergman

Alan Bergman teamed with wife Marilyn to forge among the top lyric-writing groups in modern film music, authoring some hit designs for films including In heat of the night time, The Thomas Crown Affair, and JUST HOW We Were. Bergman was created Sept 11, 1925, in Brooklyn, NY, and started his career through the early ’50s being a movie director of children’s tv development. In 1958, he wedded Marilyn and 3 years afterwards the couple gained their initial big-screen credit because of their work on THE PROPER Strategy. 1967’s In heat of Evening was the Bergmans’ breakthrough; constructed with Quincy Jones, the picture’s familiar name theme was sung with the inimitable Ray Charles. The next year, the few teamed with composer Michel Legrand for The Thomas Crown Affair, notching a global smash with Noel Harrison’s rendition from the film’s “The Windmills of YOUR BRAIN,” as well as the Bergmans consequently enjoyed an extended cooperation with Legrand that yielded such familiar favorites as “WHAT EXACTLY ARE You Doing the others you will ever have?” and “HOW WILL YOU Keep carefully the Music Playing.” Probably their best-known work was the name theme towards the 1973 melodrama JUST HOW We Were, created with Marvin Hamlisch. The music, lots one pop strike for the movie’s superstar, Barbra Streisand, also gained an Academy Prize. After notching Emmys because of their work on the tv screen projects Queen from the Stardust Ballroom and Sybil, the Bergmans reunited with Hamlisch for 1978’s Oscar-nominated “THE FINAL Time I Was feeling SUCH AS THIS,” from Same Period, Next Calendar year. With Dave Grusin, the few also penned the Tootsie theme “IT COULD BE You,” a high Ten strike for Stephen Bishop in 1982. A calendar year afterwards they gained an Oscar for Greatest Original Score because of their focus on Streisand’s Yentl, as well as the Bergmans also gained two Academy Prize nominations, because of their efforts to 1989’s Shirley Valentine and 1995’s Sabrina. Bergman had taken a tentative vocal by himself “IT COULD BE You” for Diane Schuur’s 2000 record Close friends for Schuur, and released his very own vocal full-length, Lyrically, Alan Bergman, in 2007.