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Re: Will Jennings, Co-writer of ‘My Heart Will Go On,' ‘Tears in Heaven' , 80

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Jason <jsnsmith565@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/will-jennings-co-writer-of-my-heart-will-go-on-tears-in-heaven-and-other-classics-dies-at-80/
> 
> 
> Will Jennings, an Oscar winner for "My Heart Will Go On" and "Up Where
> We Belong" and one of the best known lyricists in the contemporary
> songwriting community, has died, his longtime publisher confirms to
> Variety. No cause of death was announced, although he had been ill for
> some time; he was 80.
> 
> 
> Although the themes he co-wrote for "Titanic" (recorded by Celine Dion)
> and "An Officer and a Gentleman" (sung by Joe Cocker and Jennifer
> Warnes) won him his two Academy Awards, Jennings was equally renowned
> for a third film song, "Tears in Heaven" (performed by Eric Clapton),

So was the song never really about the death of Clapton's son?

> from the movie "Rush," which won him a Golden Globe for best original
> song as well as Grammys for record of the year and song of the year. He
> also won three Grammy Awards.
> Jennings also had major hits with songs recorded by Whitney Houston,
> Steve Winwood, Dionne Warwick, Barry Manilow and Tim McGraw, among
> others.
> 
> Jennings' association with Steve Winwood was a particularly fruitful
> one, producing two No. 1 hits, "Higher Love" and "Roll WIth It," as well
> as "Back in the High Life Again" and "Don't You Know What the Night Can
> Do."
> 
> Houston took "Didn't We Almost Have It All" to No. 1, and Manilow did
> the same with "Looks Like We Made It," to name two of Jennings' most
> indelible pop classics.
> 
> He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006, and was
> subsequently made a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame as
> well.
> 
> Singer Peter Wolf paid tribute to his friend on social media. "A sad
> time, the passing of Will Jennings, a maestro, brilliant mind and a
> gentle spirit," the former J. Geils Band frontman wrote. "Will shared
> his talents with me, ever patient and generous; he was a treasured
> friend and teacher, enriching my life in so many ways. It was an
> enormous honor to have worked with such a musical genius for so many
> years… To quote one of his favorite poets, W.B Yeats, ‘Think where man's
> glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.'"
> 
> In 2023, Jennings' song catalog was jointly acquired by All Clear Music
> and the Fuji Music Group. Although terms of the deal were not disclosed,
> Billboard estimated the value of the catalog at $60-70 million.
> 
> 
> Other artists who recorded Jennings' work or co-wrote with him include
> Roy Orbison, Mariah Carey, B.B. King, Rodney Crowell, Diana Ross, Faith
> Hill, Jimmy Buffett and Joe Sample, the last of whom co-wrote the
> classic "Street Life," as recorded by Randy Crawford and the Crusaders.
> 
> Of his work on "Titanic," Jennings told Songfacts, "I had met this very
> vibrant woman who was about 101 years old when I met her. That was two
> years before. And she came into my mind. And I realized she could have
> been on the Titanic. So I wrote everything from the point of view of a
> person of a great age looking back so many years. And it was the love
> story that made the film, of course. It was magnificently done with
> special effects, the actors were good. But the love story was what it
> was."

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Will Jennings, Co-writer of ‘My Heart Will Go On,' ‘Tears in Heaven' , 80 jsnsmith565@gmail.com (Jason) - 2024-09-07 20:42 +0000
  Re: Will Jennings, Co-writer of ‘My Heart Will Go On,' ‘Tears in Heaven' , 80 Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> - 2024-09-09 03:09 +0000
    Re: Will Jennings, Co-writer of ‘My Heart Will Go On,' ‘Tears in Heaven' , 80 jsnsmith565@gmail.com (Jason) - 2024-09-09 08:19 +0000
      Re: Will Jennings, Co-writer of ‘My Heart Will Go On,' ‘Tears in Heaven' , 80 mig73allenford2002@yahoo.co.uk (Mig.Rhodes) - 2024-09-14 11:46 +0000

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