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Feb 14, 2019 - 6:58 PM
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Zooba
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These are the artists who have written the words to our maestros greatest themes. I don't think we have talked about them much here. I can't recall. I'll throw out some names. Add more that I'm sure to have missed. Pick your Fave or faves and favorite lyrics they wrote for a film theme. Please keep to Lyricists only and not composers themselves.
Hal Shaper (It's a Long Road FIRST BLOOD, Free as the Wind PAPILLON for Goldsmith)
Don Black (BORN FREE for Barry, TO SIR WITH LOVE, Songs for GOLD for Elmer Bernstein, Tons of James Bond Film Themes)
Alan and Marilyn Bergman (Did they ever work alone, without the other?) (The Way We Were etc.)
Paul Francis Webster
Carol Goldsmith (A bunch of Jerry's Themes including THE OMEN, PLAYERS, LOGAN'S RUN)
Will Jennings (Up Where We Belong AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN , My Heart Will Go On TITANIC Horner)
Al Kasha and Joel Hirschorn (Oscar Winning Songs from POSEIDON ADVENTURE, TOWERING INFERNO)
Norman Gimbel
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Johnny Mercer's Moon River. One of the best movie songs ever.
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I'll add: Johnny Mercer's lyric for my favorite John Williams melody--The Long Goodbye. Also, Leslie Bricusse's You Only Live Twice, add Tony Newley for Goldfinger, Don Black for Born Free, Diamonds Are Forever, and On Days Like These (Q Jones). Norman Gimbel for That Night (Schifrin).
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As a John Barry fan, there must be some expectation I would say Don Black.
Well, although the names Don Black and John Barry go together like fish and chips, I think the best lyrics written for a John Barry song were written by Leslie Bricusse and Hal David.
Two of my favourite movie songs and (in my opinion) the best lyrics written for a John Barry song are:
We Have All The Time In The World.
The Good Times Are Comin'.
Both lyrics by Hal David.
One must bow to Don Black for his ingenious lyric for Diamonds Are Forever, though.
Cheers
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Tom Whitlock. Moroder and Faltermeyer's lyricist.
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Ernie Sheldon - fairly active as a lyricist from the mid-sixties to the early seventies. Songs with Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, Fred Karlin, Neal Hefti; even Shelly Manne on YOUNG BILLY YOUNG, which just played on my TV here.
His career just seemed to come to a halt, and info on Mr Sheldon on the world wide web is sparse.
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I love the Bergmans lyrics for Quincy Jones' In the Heat of the Night. Very underrated song.
"Stars with evil eyes stare from the sky
In the . . . heat . . . of . . . the night . . .
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