THE Alan BergmanOscar -winning, Grammy and Emmy songwriter, who collaborated with lyrics with his wife Marilyn for over six decades and created the hits “The Windmills of Your Mind”, “The Way We Were” and “In The Heat of the Night”, died on Thursday night at home at Los. He was 99 years old.

OR Marilyn Bergmanwho died in January 2022, was the first female chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Composer, Lyrics and Publishers (ASCAP). Alan Bergman continued to fight even after her death writing lyrics for songs.

Bergman wrote hundreds of songs, mainly for films and television series, and collaborated with top composers, including John Williams, Quincy Jones, Hendri Mancini, David Sair.

They won three Oscars: For the film “Windmills” in 1968, with French composer Michelle Legran, from The Thomas Crown Affair, for his 1973 -year -old song “The Way We Were”, with Marvin Hamlis and for the 1983 film “The Way We Were”. Again with Legrand.

Alan Bergman was born on September 11, 1925. Marilyn Keith was born, coincidentally, three years later in the same Brooklyn hospital, but they met only in the late 1950s in California, when both worked with singer Liu.

Alan had studied at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and obtained a master’s degree in music from UCLA.

Marilyn and Alan were married in February 1958 and were professional partners throughout their career. Among their first hits were “Nice ‘n’ Easy”, the homonymous song about Frank Sinatra’s album, which they wrote with Septen.

The song “In the Heat of the Night”, performed by Ray Charles for the title film, was their great success in collaboration with composer Quincy Jones in 1967.

Among the singers who interpreted Bergman’s songs were Fred Aster, Neil Diamond, Tony Bennett, Morin McGovurn, Michael Fellowin, Patty Austin and James Ingram.