Alan Bergman Dies: Co-Lyricist With Wife Marilyn Of ‘The Way Were Were’, Many Film & TV Themes Was 99
July 18, 2025 / /
Alan Bergman, the lyricist whose collaborations with his wife Marilyn were behind the Oscar-winning songs “The Way We Were,” and “The Windmills of Your Mind” as well as such beloved TV theme songs for such series as Good Times, Maude and Alice, died on Thursday night at his home in Los Angeles. He was 99.
His death was announced by a family spokesman, Ken Sunshine, to The New York Times. (Marilyn Bergman died in 2022.)
For most of the three decades starting in 1970, the husband-and-wife team scored 16 Oscar nominations. A partial list of their notable songs includes:
- “I Knew I Loved You” (music by Ennio Morricone) recorded by Céline Dion for the Morricone tribute album We All Love Ennio Morricone (2007)
- “The Windmills of Your Mind” (music by Michel Legrand) for 1968 movie The Thomas Crown Affair
- “The Way We Were” (music by Marvin Hamlisch) for 1973 movie The Way We Were
- “Yellow Bird” written for Norman Luboff’s arrangement of the creole song “Choucoune”
- “Nice ‘n’ Easy” (music by Lew Spence) for Frank Sinatra’s 1960 album Nice ‘n’ Easy
- “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” (music by Neil Diamond), best known for the duet version by Diamond and Barbra Streisand
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