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Alec Wilder
Alec Wilder
American composer, lyricist
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Jimmy Van Heusen
Jimmy Van Heusen
American composer (1913-1990)
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Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers
American composer of songs and Broadway musicals
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Ned Washington
Ned Washington
American lyricist
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Harry Warren
Harry Warren
American composer and lyricist (1893-1981)
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Otto Harbach
Otto Harbach
American lyricist (1873-1983)
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Don Black
Don Black
English lyricist
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Glen Ballard
Glen Ballard
American songwriter, lyricist, and record producer
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Adrian Ross
Adrian Ross
British lyricist, playwright, and fiction writer
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John Kander
John Kander
American musical theatre composer
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Hasil Adkins
Hasil Adkins
American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1937-2005)
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Matthew Wilder
Matthew Wilder
American vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
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Meredith Willson
Meredith Willson
American flautist, composer, conductor, musical arranger, bandleader and playwright
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Alan Menken
Alan Menken
American composer
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Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin
American lyricist (1893-1983)
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Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin
Russian-born American songwriter
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Rodgers and Hart
Rodgers and Hart
American songwriting partnership
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Johnny Mercer
Johnny Mercer
American lyricist, songwriter, singer and music professional
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Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael
American composer, pianist, singer, actor and bandleader (1899-1981)
William Engvick
American lyricist

William Engvick

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American lyricist
Bill Engvick playing piano in 1937.

William Engvick (July 1, 1914 – September 4, 2012) was an American lyricist, many of whose compositions appear in films.

Engvick graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1937. He is best known for his collaborations with composer Alec Wilder; they produced songs for the Broadway musical Once Over Lightly (1942), and for the musical television specials Miss Chicken Little (1953), Pinocchio (1957) and Hansel and Gretel (1958), Engvick was also responsible for a number of English-language lyrics to songs originally composed in French like Give me More (Donnez-moi tout ça). Among his lyrics in this category were "The Song from Moulin Rouge" and "I'll Remember Today."