08/10/16 Alan and Marilyn Bergman – Celebrated Songwriters/Lyricists for TV Shows, Films and Musicals

Summary: Two of the world’s most distinguished lyricists, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, have been contributing to the Great American Songbook for more than five decades. During their celebrated career, Alan and Marilyn’s songs have been nominated for sixteen Academy Awards, for which they have won three: "The Windmills of Your Mind" in 1968, "The Way We Were" in 1973, and the score for "Yentl" in 1984. "Windmills" and "The Way We Were" also earned Golden Globe Awards, and "The Way We Were" earned two Grammys. The first songwriters to be nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Song out of the five nominated songs, 1983 brought them nominations for "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" from "Best Friends;" "It Might Be You" from "Tootsie;” and "If We Were In Love" from "Yes, Giorgio.” In 1984, they again received three nominations: for the score for “Yentl” (for which they were awarded the Oscar) and two for the songs, "The Way He Makes Me Feel" and "Papa, Can You Hear Me?” In 1995, they wrote the Golden Globe, Academy Award and Grammy nominated song “Moonlight” performed by Sting in the Sydney Pollack film, “Sabrina.” Among their principal collaborators are Michel Legrand, Dave Grusin, Johnny Mandel, John Williams, Quincy Jones, James Newton Howard and the late Cy Coleman, Henry Mancini and Marvin Hamlisch. Alan Marilyn’s long list of television credits includes the theme songs for "Maude," "Good Times," "Alice”, "Brooklyn Bridge “ and “In the Heat of the Night." They have received four Emmy Awards: For the award-winning drama,"Sybil,” and for the first made-for-TV dramatic musical, "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom”. Another for their original song “Ordinary Miracles”, from the HBO Special “Barbra Streisand: The Concert.” They won their fourth Emmy for Outstanding Music and Lyrics for “A Ticket to Dream” from AFI’s 100 Years 100 Movies Special. Among their songs are… for Frank Sinatra “Nice ‘n’ Easy”, for Ray Charles “In the Heat of the Night”, for Fred Astaire “That Face”, and “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”, “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?", “So Many Stars”, “The Summer Knows”, “Where Do You Start?”, “On My Way to You”, “You Must Believe In Spring”, to name but a few. Alan and Marilyn are currently working on projects with Michel Legrand and playwright, Josh Ravetch. They have just completed two songs with composer Dave Grusin. “Hurry Home” for the film “Max Rose” premiering this month and “Just Getting Started” for the “Vitality After 90” film to be released later this year.

08/10/16 Alan and Marilyn Bergman – Celebrated Songwriters/Lyricists for TV Shows, Films and Musicals

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