Songwriter/composer Al Kasha has passed away today at age 83. He is best known for co-writing (with Joel Hirschhorn) numerous songs for stage and screen, including The Morning After from 1972’s The Poseidon Adventure and We May Never Love Like This Again from 1974’s The Towering Inferno, for which he received two Academy Awards. He was also Oscar-nominated for the song Candle on the Water from the 1977 original Pete’s Dragon movie and received a second nomination (shared with Hirschhorn and Irwin Kostal) for the Disney production in the Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score category.