![]() ![]() Along with Kenneth Ascher and Rupert Holmes, they wrote the music and lyrics to A Star Is Born, with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. He contributed lyrics to the song You’re So Nice to Be Around with music by John Williams, and it earned them a Oscar nomination. Williams has worked on the music of a number of films, including writing and singing on Phantom of the Paradise and Bugsy Malone. He first was a part of a short lived rock group called “Holy Mackerel”. Most recently, he collaborated with Scissor Sisters on their second album, Ta-Dah. ![]() Williams also collaborated with Biff Rose, notably on the song “Fill Your Heart”, originally recorded by Tiny Tim as the B-side of his 1968 hit “Tiptoe Through The Tulips” and subsequently covered by David Bowie on his album Hunky Dory. He also wrote the cantata Wings with music by Michel Colombier.Ī frequent cowriter of Williams was musician Kenneth Ascher their songs together included the popular children’s favorite “The Rainbow Connection”, sung by Kermit the Frog in The Muppet Movie. Anne Murray sang “Talk It Over in the Morning”. John Denver covered his most famous and perhaps finest song, Molly, and David Bowie covered Fill Your Heart. Bobby Sherman also sang “Cried Like a Baby”. 1960s and 1970s singer-songwriter with some similarities to Phil Ochs, Randy Newman, Bill Fay, Van Dyke Parks and Harry Nilsson, but with more sentiment, emotion and a touch of mysticism. An early collaboration with Roger Nichols, “Someday Man”, was covered by The Monkees on a 1969 single, and was the first Monkees’ release not published by Screen Gems. “We’ve Only Just Begun” was originally a song for Crocker National Bank television commercial featuring newlyweds. Williams is responsible for a number of enduring pop hits from the 1970s, including a number of hits for Three Dog Night, Helen Reddy, and The Carpenters, most notably “Rainy Days and Mondays,” “I Won’t Last a Day Without You,” and “We’ve Only Just Begun”, which has since become a cover-band standard and de rigueur for weddings throughout North America. is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor. Since 2009, Williams has been the president and chairman of the American songwriting society ASCAP.Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr. Williams had a variety of high-profile acting roles, such as Little Enos Burdette in the action-comedy Smokey and the Bandit and the villainous Swan in Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise, 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 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. Paul Williams is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and actor 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”. ![]()
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