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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for the movie The Swimmer composed by Marvin Hamlisch, released by Film Score Monthly in 2006
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The Swimmer was the first feature film score of then-24-year-old Marvin Hamlisch, who got the job after a chance meeting with producer Sam Spiegel. Hamlisch would go on to numerous successes in songwriting, film scoring and Broadway shows, with credits including The Sting, The Way We Were and The Spy Who Loved Me , and his strong gifts for melody and drama were evident for the start.
Marvin Hamlisch. Composer: The Spy Who Loved Me. Musical talent ran in Marvin Hamlisch's family - his father was an accordionist, and at seven Hamlisch was the youngest student ever accepted by Manhattan's Julliard School of Music. Hamlich furthered his education by taking night classes at Queens College and working during the day as a rehearsal pianist for Broadway shows. He eventually began ...
1944Jun 02 Marvin Hamlisch is born on June 2 in New York City to Viennese-Jewish immigrants Lilly and Max Hamlisch 1951Jun 01 Hamlisch auditions and is accepted into the Julliard School of Music just before his 7th birthday. 1964Jul 19 Hamlisch take his first job as a rehearsal pianist for the Broadway musical Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand. 1965Jul 19 ...
First emerging in the mid-'70s, Marvin Hamlisch was one of the top composers in film, theater, and popular music. As holder of numerous gold record awards for his soundtrack and cast recordings, and the composer of some of the most well-known songs ever cut by Barbra Streisand and Lesley Gore, among many others, he was among the few "stars" in the world of popular music, composition, and ...
At the age of 21, Hamlisch scored his first true hit when the song "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1965. In 1968, he composed his first film score for the movie The Swimmer starring Burt Lancaster and Janet Landgard. Real success for Hamlisch came in the 1970's.
