Alan and Marilyn Bergman: Keeping the Music Playing Part Two
Words by Alan and Marilyn Bergman Music by Neil Diamond, Billy Goldenberg, Dave Grusin, Marvin Hamlisch, Michel Legrand, Johnny Mandel and John Williams Welcome to the second part of our two-part salute to the songs of Alan and Marilyn Bergman, to mark Marilyn's ninetieth birthday a few days ago. After Part One's exploration of their early hits, from "Nice 'n' Easy" to "Windmills of Your Mind", today we'll spend some time with their lyrics from the Seventies on, including "The Way We Were", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "Sweet Gingerbread Man", "It Might Be You", "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" and many more - blockbuster movie themes, classic album tracks and the Billboard Number One Hit of the Year from 1974. From the Steyn ... |
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Welcome to this weekend's entry in our Mark Steyn Club anthology of video poetry - The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling published this poem one hundred years ago in the autumn of 1919. Copybooks are long vanished from British and American classrooms, and both teachers and pupils would today be utterly baffled by them and their purpose. So the title of the poem is now obscure, but the theme is more relevant than ever: the contrast between modish delusions and the hard enduring truths that will inevitably assert themselves. Kipling concludes with what for him is a rather dark threat, yet one that seems more and more probable as the years go by. In this video I discuss the background to the poem and its author, and ... Mark at the MoviesWhen the Flying Circus has Flown
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Words by Alan and Marilyn Bergman Music by Neil Diamond, Dave Grusin, Marvin Hamlisch, Quincy Jones, Michel Legrand, Norman Luboff and Lew Spence Today is the ninetieth birthday of Marilyn Bergman, one half of one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of our time. Their catalogue includes "The Windmills of Your Mind", "Nice 'n' Easy", "The Way We Were", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "In the Heat of the Night", "It Might Be You", and many more... Steyn's Song of the WeekYou Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
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