The Bergmans won three Academy Awards for their lyrics.
In a statement, ASCAP President and Chairman Paul Williams wrote that, “It is with deep sadness that I personally, and all of ASCAP, mourn the passing of Marilyn Bergman -- one of the greatest lyricists who ever lived and truly ASCAP royalty. She was a brilliant songwriter who together with her husband, Alan Bergman, gave us some of the most beautiful and enduring lyrics of all time.
Marilyn Keith was born in Brooklyn, New York, and majored in music at New York’s High School of Music & Art, then studied at New York University,She moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1950s and began writing lyrics for composer Lew Spence.
“In the Heat of the Night,” sung by Ray Charles, was their big breakthrough film, as the Bergmans worked with composer Quincy Jones in 1967. The Bergmans won three Emmy Awards, two shared with Hamlisch for “Barbra: The Concert” and AFI’s “100 Years … 100 Movies,” according toThe couple also wrote the lyrics for the theme songs for such television shows as “Bracken’s World,” “Good Times,” “Maude, “Alice” and “Brooklyn Bridge,” according to
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