Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
Marilyn Bergman died aged 93 together with her husband Alan at her bedside (Image: Motion Press/REX/Shutterstock)

Marilyn Bergman, the Oscar-winning lyricist who co-wrote The Approach We Have been and hundred of different songs, has died aged 93. 

Bergman died at her house in Los Angeles of respiratory failure, which her consultant says was not associated to Covid-19. 

Her husband, Alan Bergman, who she additionally had a profitable song-writing partnership with, was at her bedside when she died. 

The couple, who married in 1958, specialised in introspective ballads for movie, tv and stage of their enduring partnership, and their songs had been coated by a number of the world’s greatest singers together with Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson.

Amongst their most well-known works had been The Approach We Have been, from the Streisand and Robert Redford romantic drama of the identical title, Stephen Bishop’s It May Be You from Tootsie and Noel Harrison’s The Windmills Of Your Thoughts from The Thomas Crown Affair.  

The Bergmans received three Oscars for The Approach We Have been, Windmills Of Your Thoughts and the soundtrack to Streisand’s Yentl, and obtained 16 nominations, three of them in 1983 alone.

: Alan and Marilyn Bergman at their home
The husband and spouse have been writing songs collectively since 1958 (Image: Bettmann Archive)

The couple additionally received two Grammys and 4 Emmys and had been inducted into the Songwriters Corridor of Fame.

Bergman additionally grew to become the primary lady elected to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and later served because the chair and president and was additionally the primary chair of the Nationwide Recorded Sound Preservation Board of the Library of Congress.

ASCAP President and Chairman, songwriter Paul Williams paid tribute to Bergman, saying in a press release: ‘It's with deep disappointment that I personally, and all of ASCAP, mourn the passing of Marilyn Bergman – one of many biggest lyricists who ever lived and really ASCAP royalty. 

‘She was a superb songwriter who collectively together with her husband, Alan Bergman, gave us a number of the most stunning and enduring lyrics of all time. 

Mandatory Credit: Photo by I T N/REX/Shutterstock (3937266a) Marilyn Bergman, a Lyricist. VARIOUS
Marilyn Bergman was the primary lady elected to ASCAP (PIcture: I T N/REX/Shutterstock)

‘She was a tireless and fierce advocate for music creators not solely throughout her time period as President and Chairman of ASCAP however all through her life. Our group will miss her intelligence, her wit and her knowledge. Alan – we mourn with you and your loved ones.’

The Bergmans had been each Jewish and from lower-middle-class households, and had been even born in the identical hospital in Brooklyn, 4 years aside. 

They each moved to Los Angeles in 1950 however didn't meet till just a few years later, once they had been working for a similar composer.

Bergman is survived by her husband and their daughter, Julie Bergman.