Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alan Bergman and his wife Marilyn, with Lionel Richie in 2008: they married in 1958 and wrote their first song together for Dean ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. Today, we're going to remember lyricist Alan Bergman, half of the long-running songwriting duo with his wife Marilyn Bergman. Here's a sampling of some of their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alan and his wife, Marilyn — who died in 2022 at the age of 93 — collaborated on many of Barbra’s songs, including “The Way We ...

The lyrics for the songs "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life," "The Way We Were," "Nice 'n' Easy," "You Must Believe in Spring," and "The Windmills of Your Mind" were written by the husband and ...

BIANCULLI: That's Alan Bergman, singing a song he wrote with his wife, Marilyn Bergman. We'll get back to Terry's 2007 interview with the Bergmans after a break. This is FRESH AIR. This is FRESH AIR.

ALAN BERGMAN: Yeah. Well, when you write for somebody like Frank Sinatra, who has a definite personality, you try to write - it's easy to write a custom-made suit for him, you know. He's very ...