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Kretzmer wrote lyrics for the BBC's satire That Was The Week That Was, including the racial satire " Song of Nostalgia For an American State " and the much-recorded tribute to John F. Kennedy, " In the Summer of His Years ", written and performed by Millicent Martin within hours of his assassination.
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Kretzmer wrote the lyrics for Anthony Newley ’ s cult musical film Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness, whose score included “ When You Gotta Go ”, often used as a closing song by singers including Barbra Streisand.
Kretzmer wrote the book and lyrics of the West End musical, Our Man Crichton, composed by David Lee and based on J M Barrie ’ s satirical play The Admirable Crichton.
Kretzmer later wrote ( with composer Laurie Johnson ) the lyrics for a large-scale comedy spoof, The Four Musketeers, which ran for more than a year at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, starring Harry Secombe as the swordsman d ' Artagnan.
In 2008 Kretzmer wrote the lyrics for Marguerite from an original text by Alain Boublil, a musical set in Nazi-occupied Paris, to music by Michel Legrand.
" The inspiration for both score and lyrics feels more like a retread of the worst excesses of Les Misérables ( a fact amplified here by sharing the English lyricist of that show, Herbert Kretzmer ) and Frank Wildhorn, with the occasional Lloyd Webber rock riff thrown in for good measure ", wrote The Stage, while The Times concluded that " the piece displayed moments of musical power.
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For the edition broadcast on Saturday 23 November 1963, the day after the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, TW3 produced a shortened 20-minute programme with no satire, reflecting on the loss, including a contribution from Dame Sybil Thorndike and the tribute song " In the Summer of His Years " sung by Martin with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.
The music was composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg, and the lyrics were written by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer.
* 1987: Les Misérables – Book by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.
The new musical Marguerite is by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, and includes music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.
Schönberg's next project with Boublil, Marguerite, includes music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.
Other award-winning Kretzmer lyrics include “ Yesterday When I Was Young ” and the chart-topping “ She ”, both written with and for the French singer Charles Aznavour ..
Kretzmer ’ s lyrics extended the two-hour Paris original into a three-hour show.
For his work on the Les Misérables lyrics, Kretzmer received Tony and Grammy awards.
* 1987: Les Misérables – Claude-Michel Schönberg ( music ) and Herbert Kretzmer ( lyrics )
# Les Misérables, 1980 Paris, 1985 London, 1987 Broadway, m Claude-Michel Schönberg, lb Alain Boublil ( English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer ) (> 10, 800 in London ( the longest-running musical in history ); 6, 680 on Broadway ) ( 1987 Tony Award winner ; nominated for 12 Tony Awards and won eight )
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** Claude-Michel Schonberg ( composer ), Herbert Kretzmer ( lyricist ), Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg ( producers ), & the original Broadway cast for Les Misérables
Kretzmer began his professional career writing documentary films and the commentary for a weekly cinema newsreel.
Kretzmer won an Ivor Novello Award for the Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren comedy hit “ Goodness Gracious Me ”, composed by David Lee.
In 1985, Kretzmer ’ s songs for Aznavour came to the attention of producer Cameron Mackintosh, who invited him to write an English version of a French musical Les Misérables ( by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg ).
Note: The Grammy nominations are credited to the composers and producers and not the artists, the Grammy for Les Miserables was awarded to Claude-Michel Schönberg ( composer and producer ), Herbert Kretzmer ( lyricist ) and Alain Boublil ( producer ).
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* David Kretzmer, Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories, State University of New York Press, April, 2002, trade paperback, 262 pages, ISBN 0-7914-5338-3 ; hardcover, July, 2002, ISBN 0-7914-5337-5
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After several years as a feature writer on the Daily Sketch, Kretzmer became a profile writer on the Sunday Dispatch and the Daily Express, interviewing John Steinbeck, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Sugar Ray Robinson, Louis Armstrong, Henry Miller, Cary Grant and Duke Ellington.
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Herbert Kretzmer OBE ( born 5 October 1925 ) is a South African-born English journalist and lyric writer.
Kretzmer ’ s most recent musical project is Kristina, based on Vilhelm Moberg ’ s epic suite of novels about Swedish emigrants to Minnesota in the 19th century.
In 1988, Kretzmer was elected a Chevalier of L ’ Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres.
Kretzmer was born in South Africa in 1925.
He is one of four brothers born to Lithuanian-born William and Tilly Kretzmer, who fled the racist pogroms of Czarist Russia to settle in small-town South Africa early in the 20th century.
Kretzmer married Elisabeth Margaret Wilson, and they had one son and one daughter.
On 8 April 2011, Kretzmer received an Honorary Doctorate from Rhodes University in South Africa.
She was also cast in the title role in Marguerite, a new musical from the pens of Michel Legrand, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg.
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" Kinky Boots " is a 1960s song written by Herbert Kretzmer and David Lee, and recorded by Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman, stars of the television series The Avengers.
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By mid-2000s, the show has been translated into English by Björn Ulvaeus and the famed Les Misérables English lyricist Herbert Kretzmer.
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Martin commissioned David Lee and Herbert Kretzmer to write the song.
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Not content to create only the music and lyrics, Noel Coward also wrote the book and directed Sail Away ( Capitol WAO 1643 ; ;
Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics for the " Night Waltz " theme (" Love Takes Time ") and wrote an entirely new version of " The Glamorous Life ", which has been incorporated into several subsequent productions of the stage musical.
In reviewing the 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production, The Telegraph reviewer wrote that " Sondheim's lyrics are often superbly witty, his music here, mostly in haunting waltz-time, far more accessible than is sometimes the case.
He received an urgent call from Andrew Lloyd Webber who wanted him to write the lyrics to The Phantom of the Opera, for which he wrote " Masquerade ".
For a compilation album of the Glenmark duo Gemini, Andersson had Björn Ulvaeus write new Swedish lyrics for the re-recording of two old songs ; Ulvaeus also wrote new English lyrics to older Swedish language songs for opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter tribute album " I Let The Music Speak ".
In 2000, Benny wrote the music for fellow Swede ( no relation ) Roy Andersson's film Songs from the Second Floor ( the music later re-recorded, featuring new lyrics, with BAO!
Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler ( also of Irish descent ) wrote the lyrics to the Black Sabbath song " Sabbath Bloody Sabbath " on the album of the same name in 1973.
His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".
In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of " Das Lied der Deutschen " to Haydn's melody, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time.
Since then McLean has stated that the lyrics are also somewhat autobiographical and present an abstract story of his life from the mid-1950s until the time he wrote the song in the late 1960s.
Francis Scott Key ( August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843 ) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States ' national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".
* Christian artist Michael Card wrote a song " Hound of Heaven ," basing the lyrics on parts of Thompson's poem.
Marrow decided to adopt Schoolly D's style, and wrote the lyrics to his first gangsta rap song, " 6 in the Mornin '", in his Hollywood apartment, and created a minimal beat with a Roland TR-808.
" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).
"... Arthur's genius lay in his ability to imagine songs, with fully formed lyrics and melodies ," wrote John Einarson in " Forever Changes: Arthur Lee and the Book of Love ," an authorized biography on Lee that was released in 2010.
Of course, it didn't occur to me at the time I wrote it that anybody outside of my twenty or thirty friends who I was singing to would ever have to actually ponder the lyrics or even consider them.
MacKaye was allegedly skipping practice sessions towards the end of the band's career, and he wrote the lyrics to the songs on the Salad Days EP in the studio.
He also wrote the lyrics for the 1952 revue Two's Company.
Out of this collaboration came his first musical, Always You, for which he wrote the book and lyrics.
Hammerstein also wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen with an all-black cast that became a 1943 Broadway musical and a 1954 film.
Music Journalist Hal Horowitz wrote: " These songs aren ’ t as loud or frantic as those of her late 70s heyday, but they resonate just as boldly as she moans, chants, speaks and spits out lyrics with the grace and determination of Mohammad Ali in his prime.
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