Alan Bergman, an American lyricist, died at the age of 99 on Thursday, that during their musical career He participated in several hits for singers such as Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson and Tony Bennett. AP reported on Friday. Bergman and his deceased wife Marilyn formed one of the most famous author’s tandems in the history of film music.
They were also the most fertile and most successful author’s pairs of their era, with They wrote lyrics – and sometimes music – to hundreds of songs, including film music, which often happened as well known as the films themselves. They cooperated with many composers – from Marvin Hamlisch and Quincy Jones to Michel Legrand and Cy Coleman.
Bergman won an Oscar for the song “The Way We Were” from the same film of the same name from 1973, za skladbu „The Windmills of Your Mind“ from the film of the Thomas Crown affair (1968) and For music for Jentl (1983) with Barbra Streisand.
With Streisand, with whom they worked closely in several films and songs, the Bergmanov family also connected a personal friendship. They wrote for her the lyrics to the song “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”, which they created with Neil Diamond. Streisanda and Diamond first recorded it separately, but at the request of the public was also a version as a duet. Streisandová also had other songs with Bergman’s lyrics in the repertoire – for example, “On Raine Afternoons”, “One Day” or “After the Rain”.
The Oscar was nominated 16 times and in 1980 they entered the Hall of Fame by composers in 1980. They also won three Emmy Awards during their careers.
