Columbia Records will release a new soundtrack album for the 1983 musical drama Yentl co-written and directed by Barbra Streisand and starring Streisand herself, Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving. The album features the Streisand-performed original songs from the movie written by Michel Legrand (The Thomas Crown Affair, Summer of ’42, Never Say Never Again The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and featuring lyrics by Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman, including previously unreleased demos that Streisand recorded in her living room accompanied by Legrand on piano. The 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition will be released digitally and physically on October 27, 2023. Visit Amazon to pre-order the 2-CD edition and digital version.
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Marilyn Bergman (1928-2022)
Marilyn Bergman has passed away today at her home in Los Angeles. She was 93. Together with her husband Alan, the songwriter/lyricist wrote dozens of songs for film and television and won three Academy Awards for the songs The Way We Were from Sydney Pollack’s movie of the same title, The Windmills of Your Mind from Norman Jewison’s The Thomas Crown Affair, as well as the (song) score from 1983’s Yentl. Among her 16 Oscar nominations also were songs for Tootsie, Sydney Pollack’s Sabrina, Shirley Valentine, Yes, Giorgio, Best Friends, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The Happy Ending, Same Time, Next Year and The Promise. She also received multiple Grammy and Emmy Awards and nominations.
‘Just Getting Started’ from ‘If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast’ to Be Released
Reel Gold Records will release the original song Just Getting Started from the HBO documentary If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast. The track is written by Academy Award winners Alan & Marilyn Bergman (Yentl, The Way We Were) and Dave Grusin (The Milagro Beanfield War, The Firm, On Golden Pond) and performed by Alan Bergman with Grusin & Band. The song will be released as a digital single on September 26, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The label will also release the song Young at Heart performed by Dick Van Dyke from the film on the same day (click here to pre-order). If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast is produced and directed by Danny Gold and follows Carl Reiner as he tracks down several nonagenarians, including Mel Brooks, Dick Van Dyke, Norman Lear and Betty White who show that the later years can be the happiest and most rewarding.