Children Sarah Williams Parents Paul Hamilton Williams Relatives Mentor Williams(Sibling) Other works Along with Robert Janes, Williams co-wrote the story for the 1979 episode of Hawaii Five-O (1968) in which he guess-starred, Stringer (1979).Publicity...
Williams, 79, received three Grammy nominations for song of the year, for “We’ve Only Just Begun” (1970), “You and Me Against the World” (1974) and “Evergreen” (1977). He wrote all three songs with different composers — Roger Nichols, Kenny Ascher andBarbra Streisand,...
Paul Williams:I was an out-of-work actor. I knew nothing about the music business. I was totally ignorant about how the music business worked. I had written a few songs and then a friend played them for A&M. I showed up at A&M Records in 1967 in a borrowed car. My...
Focuses on songwriter Paul Williams. His return to songwriting; His first hit in nearly 20 years, entitled `You're Gone,' which he co-wrote with Jon Vezner; Past songs of William's including Barbra Streisand's `Evergreen' and the Carpenters' `We've Only Just Begun'; Brief biographical ...
The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson were subjects that occupied Paul Williams from the very beginning. In September, 1966, the fifth issue of Crawdaddy! contained the first words Paul ever wrote about the Beach Boys: in a news column, he interjected his opinion thatPet Soundswas the band's ...
(Not that it’s ever that simple; he’s also cited the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams as partial inspiration for this number.) It was hardly the last of his pastoral songs —“Heart of the Country” was another terrific one, early in his solo career, and even recent “McCartney I...
Paul Williams: Yes! I’ve been very busy. When Quarkspace entered retirement in 2014, I put all my musical energy into Church of Hed. That inspiration resulted in four full-length albums, one double album, two EPs, and two singles. I also managed to finish Quarkspace’s ‘...
Violin Jeremy Williams : Violin David Woodcock : Violin Roger Chase : Viola Andrew Parker : Viola George Robertson : Viola Graeme Scott : Viola Robert Bailey : Cello Paul Kegg : Cello Ben Kennard : Cello Anthony Pleeth : Cello Roger Smith : Cello Jonathan Williams : Cello Paul Cullington :...
Paul Williams’ songwriting has always had a decidedly mainstream pop character; though he later discovered ’50s rock ‘n’ roll by working his way backward from his beloved Beatles, the songs he wrote generally tended to come down on the soft-pop, folk and even MOR (middle of the road)...
“It really pisses me off every year," he said. "I don't begrudge the groups that get in, but ... being in the Guess Who in their peak years, the 'American Woman' years when I wrote the songs, and Bachman-Turner Overdrive during the peak years, when we were selling 30, 40 ...