Paul Williams (songwriter)

Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr. is an American composer, singer, songwriter and actor. He is perhaps best known for popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s including Three Dog Nights version of An Old Fashioned Love Song, Helen Reddys You and Me Against the World, David Bowies Fill Your Heart, and the Carpenters Weve Only Just Begun and Rainy Days and Mondays, as well as his contributions to films, such as writing the lyrics to thecharttopping Evergreen, the love theme from A Star Is Born, starring Barbra Streisand, for which he won a Grammy for Song of the Year and an Academy Award for Best Original Song and Rainbow Connection from The Muppet Movie. He also wrote the lyrics to the opening theme for The Love Boat, with music previously composed by Charles Fox, which was originally sung by Jack Jones, and later, by Dionne Warwick.

Williams was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Paul Hamilton Williams, an architectural engineer, and his wife, Bertha Mae , a homemaker. His father died in a car accident in 1953 when Williams wasyears old, after which Williams grew up living with his aunt.

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