This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. Today, we're going to remember lyricist Alan Bergman, half of the long-running songwriting duo with his wife Marilyn Bergman. Here's a sampling of some of their ...

Alan Bergman, the Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with his wife, Marilyn, for an enduring and loving partnership that produced such old-fashioned hits as “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?,” “It ...

Alan Bergman and his wife Marilyn, with Lionel Richie in 2008: they married in 1958 and wrote their first song together for Dean Martin - Lester Cohen/WireImage Alan Bergman, who has died aged 99, was ...

Oscar-winning lyricist Alan Bergman, who with his wife Marilyn wrote the words for some of Barbra Streisand’s best-known hits as well as her 1983 film “Yentl,” died on July 17 at his home in Los ...

BIANCULLI: That's Alan Bergman. He and his wife, co-lyricist Marilyn, spoke with Terry Gross in 2007. He died last week at the age of 99. She died in 2022. After a break, we listen back to a 1989 ...

BIANCULLI: That's Alan Bergman, singing a song he wrote with his wife, Marilyn Bergman. We'll get back to Terry's 2007 interview with the Bergmans after a break. This is FRESH AIR. This is FRESH AIR.