![]() ![]() The love ballad, " Evergreen", (lyrics by Paul Williams, melody by Barbra Streisand) won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy for Song of the Year. ![]() ![]() Along with Ascher and Rupert Holmes, he wrote the music and lyrics to A Star Is Born (also 1976), with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. ![]() He contributed lyrics to the Cinderella Liberty song "You're So Nice to Be Around" with music by John Williams, and it earned them an Oscar nomination. Williams wrote and sang the song "Where Do I Go from Here", which was used in the end credits of the film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Williams worked on the music for a number of films, including writing and singing on Phantom of the Paradise (1974) in which he starred and earned an Oscar nomination for the music, and Bugsy Malone (1976). Their songs together included " Rainbow Connection", sung by Jim Henson (as Kermit the Frog) in The Muppet Movie (1979). Ī frequent co-writer of Williams' was musician Kenneth Ascher. Īn early collaboration with Roger Nichols, "Someday Man", was covered by the Monkees (a group for which he auditioned but was not chosen ) on a 1969 single, and was the first Monkees' release not published by Screen Gems. Williams and Nichols were responsible for a number of successful pop hits from the 1970s, including several hits for Three Dog Night (" An Old Fashioned Love Song", " The Family of Man" and " Out in the Country"), Helen Reddy (" You and Me Against the World"), and the Carpenters, most notably " Rainy Days and Mondays", " I Won't Last a Day Without You", and " We've Only Just Begun", originally a song for a Crocker National Bank television commercial featuring newlyweds, and which has since become a cover-band standard and de rigueur for weddings throughout North America. Rose was instrumental in getting Williams his break with A&M Records which resulted in Williams working with songwriter Roger Nichols. Rose and Williams wrote "I'll Walk Away" (recorded by Rose on his third, eponymous album). David Bowie recorded a version of the song on his album Hunky Dory (1971). Tiny Tim covered it as the B-side of his hit " Tiptoe Through the Tulips" (1968). Together, they wrote the song "Fill Your Heart" which was recorded by Rose on his first album, The Thorn in Mrs. The two men first met while working together on a television comedy show. Williams began his professional songwriting career with Biff Rose in Los Angeles. Musical career Williams performing in 1974 His other brother was Mentor Williams, a songwriter as well who wrote Dobie Gray's 1973 hit " Drift Away". Williams, a NASA rocket scientist, who participated in the Mercury and Apollo programs and was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, their highest honor, in 1969. Williams was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Paul Hamilton Williams, an architectural engineer, and his wife, Bertha Mae (née Burnside), a homemaker. Since 2009, Williams has been the president and chairman of the American songwriting society ASCAP. Williams had a variety of high-profile acting roles, such as Little Enos Burdette in the action-comedy Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and the villainous Swan in Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974), which Williams also co-scored, receiving an Oscar nomination in the process. He wrote the lyrics to the opening theme for the television show The Love Boat, with music previously composed by Charles Fox, which was originally sung by Jack Jones and, later, by Dionne Warwick. Williams is also known for writing the score and lyrics for Bugsy Malone (1976) and his musical contributions to other films, including the Oscar-nominated song " Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie, and writing the lyrics to the #1 chart-topping song " Evergreen", the love theme from the Barbra Streisand film A Star Is Born, for which he won a Grammy for Song of the Year and an Academy Award for Best Original Song. He is known for writing and co-writing popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s, including Three Dog Night's " An Old Fashioned Love Song" and " Out in the Country", Helen Reddy's " You and Me Against the World", Biff Rose's "Fill Your Heart", and the Carpenters' " We've Only Just Begun" and " Rainy Days and Mondays". (born September 19, 1940) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and actor. ![]()
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