US EditionAlan Bergman, Oscar-winning lyricist and ‘father figure’ to Barbra Streisand, dies at 99 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
LOS ANGELES, JUL 21 – Alan Bergman won three Academy Awards and wrote lyrics for iconic songs including Barbra Streisand's hits, remaining creatively active until his death at 99, family said.
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The ForwardAlan Bergman, Oscar-winning lyricist and ‘father figure’ to Barbra Streisand, dies at 99
Oscar-Winning lyricist Alan Bergman, who with his wife Marilyn wrote the words for some of Barbra Streisand’s best-known hits as well as her 1983 film “Yentl,” died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 99.
Alan Bergman, Oscar-winning lyricist and ‘father figure’ to Barbra Streisand, dies at 99 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Oscar-Winning lyricist Alan Bergman, who with his wife Marilyn wrote the words for some of Barbra Streisand’s best-known hits as well as her 1983 film “Yentl,” died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 99. The Bergmans were already an established lyrics-writing team when, in 1962, they met Streisand after a performance at the Bon Soir nightclub in Manhattan. It wasn’t until 1969, however, that she recorded one of their songs, “Ask Yoursel…
Alan Bergman, an American oscarized parolist to whom one owes old-fashioned tubes such as "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?", "It Might Be You" and the classic "The Way We Were" sung by Barbra Streisand on the soundtrack of the film "Our Most Beautiful Years" (1973), died at the age of 99.
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