Alan Bergman (born September 11, 1925) is a prolific American lyricist and songwriter. Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A lyricist is a Writer who specializes in Song Lyrics, usually paid for by a band to write a custom song(s A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both

Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC, North Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, Coeducational Research The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United His involvement in the entertainment industry began in the early 1950s as a director of children's television shows. A television director directs the activities involved in making a Television Episode. He and his wife Marilyn Bergman, whom he married in 1958, were born in the same hospital and raised in the same Brooklyn neighborhood, but didn't meet until each had relocated to Los Angeles. Marilyn Bergman (born November 10, 1929) is a Composer, Songwriter and Author. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Together they have written the music and lyrics for numerous television shows, films, and stage musicals.

In 1983, the couple became the first songwriters ever to have written three of the five tunes nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song - "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" from Best Friends, "It Might Be You" from Tootsie (with Dave Grusin), and "If We Were in Love" from Yes, Giorgio (with John Williams). " How Do You Keep the Music Playing? " is a song composed by Michel Legrand, with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman for the 1982 film Tootsie is a 1982 Comedy film that tells the story of a talented but volatile Actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to go to David Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an Academy Award -winning American Composer, arranger and Pianist. John Towner Williams (born February 8 1932) is an American Composer, conductor and Pianist.

Bergman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980 and in 1995 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Berklee College of Music. The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. A doctorate is an Academic degree that indicates the highest level of academic achievement Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945 is an independent music College in Boston Massachusetts. He is a member of the board of The Streisand Foundation.

Bergman and his wife's credits include:

• Lyrics for "The Windmills of Your Mind", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "Yellow Bird", "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?", "How Do You Keep The Music Playing?, "and the score from Yentl, with music by Michel Legrand
• Lyrics for "The Way We Were", with music by Marvin Hamlisch
• Lyrics and music for Ballroom, a 1978 Broadway musical, "Never Say Never Again" from the film of the same name, the theme songs for the television series The Sandy Duncan Show; Maude and Good Times, and "Moonlight", featured in the film Sabrina
• Lyrics for "I knew I loved you", the Quincy Jones produced Celine Dion song that was the theme for the movie "Once Upon a Time in America". The Windmills of Your Mind ( Les moulins de mon cœur) is a song with words and music by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Michel Legrand For the album of the same name click here " You Don't Bring Me Flowers " is a song that hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts in " Choucoune " (Choukoun is a 19th century Haitian song composed by Michel Mauleart Monton with lyrics from a poem by Oswald Durand. " What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? " is a song with lyrics written by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman and original music written by Michel Legrand Yentl is a play by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Based on Singer's Short story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy" it centers Michel Legrand (born February 24, 1932 in Paris) is a French musical composer arranger conductor and pianist of Armenian descent Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American Composer. Ballroom is a musical with a book by Jerome Kaas and music by Billy Goldenberg and lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located Never Say Never Again, released in 1983, is the second screen adaptation of Ian Fleming 's novel Thunderball and a non- EON Productions Funny Face and The Sandy Duncan Show were two short-lived sitcoms aired by CBS starring Sandy Duncan as part of its Maude is an Emmy and Golden Globe -winning half-hour American Television Sitcom that was originally broadcast on the Good Times is a American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the Sabrina is a 1995 comedy - drama - romance adapted by Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel based on the 1954 screenplay,
• Bergman's talents can be seen on Jones's new podcast, "The Quincy Jones Show".

In 2007, at the age of 81, Alan Bergman released his first album as a vocalist, Lyrically, featuring some of the Bergmans' most well-known songs.

External links

• Official website of Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
• Interview with Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman with Fresh Air's Terry Gross (8/21/07)