''Lyrically, Alan Bergman'' is the debut album by American lyricist Alan Bergman. It was recorded in 2007 and released later that year by

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. The album consists of songs with lyrics by Bergman and his wife, Marilyn Bergman (

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Keith). Alan and Marilyn Bergman have been nominated fifteen times for the

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, and have won twice, at the

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for " Windmills of Your Mind", and for "

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" at the 46th Academy Awards, both winning songs are featured on this album.

Track listing

# " The Windmills of Your Mind" (

Michel Legrand Michel Jean Legrand (; 24 February 1932 – 26 January 2019) was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and singer. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to ma ...

) – 3:41 # "Nice 'n' Easy" ( Lew Spence) – 3:02 # "The Summer Knows" (Legrand) – 4:29 # " It Might Be You" (

Dave Grusin Robert David Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an American composer, arranger, producer, jazz pianist, and band leader. He has composed many scores for feature films and television and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work, incl ...

) – 3:31 # " What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (Legrand) – 4:36 # "That Face" (Spence) – 3:40 # "Love Like Ours" (Grusin) – 3:47 # " You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (

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) – 3:01 # "Where Do You Start?" (

Johnny Mandel John Alfred Mandel (November 23, 1925June 29, 2020) was an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. The musicians he worked with include Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, Tony Benn ...

) – 4:43 # " How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" (Legrand) – 4:03 # "And I'll Be There" (Grusin) – 3:48 # "

" (

Marvin Hamlisch Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2, 1944 – August 6, 2012) was an American composer and conductor. He is one of a handful of people to win Emmy Awards, Emmy, Grammy Awards, Grammy, Academy Awards, Oscar, and Tony Awards, Tony awards, a feat ...

) – 4:35 # "What Matters Most" (Grusin) – 2:24 All lyrics by

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and Marilyn Bergman, except "That Face", lyrics by Alan Bergman. Composers indicated.

Personnel

Performance

* Alan Bergman –

vocal The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound producti ...

, producer * Till Brönner –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

* Frank Chastenier –

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

* Randy Waldman * Christian McBride –

double bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

* Jeff Hamilton –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

* Jörg Achim Keller –

arranger In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orchestrat ...

* Jeremy Lubbock

Production

* Marilyn Bergman –

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*Jim Britt – cover photo *Lisa Hansen – release coordinator *Cameron Mizell *John Newcott *Spike Nannarello – photography * Al Schmitt – recording engineer *Bill Smith - recording engineer / protools editing

References

{{Authority control 2007 debut albums Alan Bergman albums Verve Records albums 2000s covers albums