19-09-2018, 13:42
Paul Hamilton Williams Jr was born on this day in 1940, in Nebraska, Omaha, USA. Composer, musician, songwriter and actor, he’s probably a lot better not known for the songs he wrote than for those he recorded. 
He created what turned out to be some real biggies back in the day – “Evergreen” from A Star is Born, and a couple of the Carpenter’s No 1. hits – “I Won’t Last a Day Without You”, “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Rainy Days and Mondays”, for starters – there were more for others. He also scored for film and TV picking up an Oscar nomination along the way for this song from The Muppet Movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEnC5gwNAN0
I would have thought “Old Fashioned Love Song” or something would be one of the first tunes to spring to mind when seeing his name on the birthday lists, but nooooo – for some bizarre reason, especially since I never saw Phantom of the Paradise, or even listened to the soundtrack (which incidentally also got a nomination from the Academy and a Golden Globe Award), it was “The Hell Of It”!!
He created what turned out to be some real biggies back in the day – “Evergreen” from A Star is Born, and a couple of the Carpenter’s No 1. hits – “I Won’t Last a Day Without You”, “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Rainy Days and Mondays”, for starters – there were more for others. He also scored for film and TV picking up an Oscar nomination along the way for this song from The Muppet Movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEnC5gwNAN0I would have thought “Old Fashioned Love Song” or something would be one of the first tunes to spring to mind when seeing his name on the birthday lists, but nooooo – for some bizarre reason, especially since I never saw Phantom of the Paradise, or even listened to the soundtrack (which incidentally also got a nomination from the Academy and a Golden Globe Award), it was “The Hell Of It”!!
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