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| Birth proper name | Paul Hamilton Williams Jr. |
| Born | (1940-09-19) September 19, 1940 Omaha, Nebraska, United States |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, U.s. |
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| Years active | 1960s–nowadays |
| Labels | A&M, Reprise, Portrait |
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| Website | paulwilliamsofficial |
Paul Hamilton Williams Jr. [2] (born September 19, 1940)[3] [four] is an American composer, singer, songwriter and actor. He is known for writing and co-writing popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s, including Iii Dog Night's "An Old Fashioned Love Song" and "Out in the Country", Helen Reddy's "You lot and Me Against the Earth", David Bowie'southward "Fill Your Center" and the Carpenters' "We've Only Only Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays".
Williams is besides known for writing the score and lyrics for Bugsy Malone (1976) and his musical contributions to other films, including the Oscar-nominated song "Rainbow Connexion" from The Muppet Movie, and writing the lyrics to the #one nautical chart-topping song "Evergreen", the love theme from the Barbra Streisand film A Star Is Born, for which he won a Grammy for Vocal of the Year and an University Award for Best Original Vocal. He wrote the lyrics to the opening theme for the television show The Love Boat, with music previously composed by Charles Play a joke on, which was originally sung by Jack Jones and, later, by Dionne Warwick.[v]
Williams had a diversity of high-profile interim roles, such as "Little Enos Burdette" in the action-one-act Smokey and the Brigand (1977) and the villainous Swan in Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974),[6] which Williams also co-scored, receiving an Oscar nomination in the process.[7] Since 2009, Williams has been the president and chairman of the American songwriting society ASCAP.
Early life [edit]
Williams was born in Omaha, Nebraska,[viii] the son of Paul Hamilton Williams, an architectural engineer, and his wife, Bertha Mae (née Burnside), a homemaker.[2]
His father died in a car accident in 1953, when Williams was thirteen years sometime, after which Williams grew upward living with his aunt. As a result, Williams moved to Long Beach, California, with his family and attended Woodrow Wilson Classical Loftier Schoolhouse.
1 of his brothers was John J. Williams, a NASA rocket scientist, who participated in the Mercury and Apollo programs and was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, their highest honor, in 1969.[9] His other brother was Mentor Williams, a songwriter every bit well who wrote Dobie Grayness'southward 1973 hitting "Drift Away".[ten]
Musical career [edit]
Williams performing in 1974
Williams began his professional songwriting career with Biff Rose in Los Angeles. The two men offset met while working together on a tv comedy show. Together, they wrote the song "Fill Your Heart" which was recorded past Rose on his outset anthology, The Thorn in Mrs. Roses Side. Soon thereafter Tiny Tim covered information technology as the B-side of his hitting "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" (1968). David Bowie too recorded a faithful version of the vocal on his anthology Hunky Dory (1971). Rose and Williams also wrote "I'll Walk Away" (recorded by Rose on his third, eponymous album). Rose was instrumental in getting Williams his break with A&M Records which resulted in Williams working with songwriter Roger Nichols. Williams and Nichols were responsible for a number of successful pop hits from the 1970s, including several hits for Three Domestic dog Dark (the aforementioned "An Quondam Fashioned Love Song", too as "The Family of Man" and "Out in the State"), Helen Reddy ("You and Me Against the Globe"), and the Carpenters, most notably "Rainy Days and Mondays", "I Won't Last a Mean solar day Without You", and "We've Simply Merely Begun", originally a song for a Crocker National Bank television commercial featuring newlyweds, and which has since become a cover-band standard and de rigueur for weddings throughout North America.
An early collaboration with Roger Nichols, "Someday Man", was covered by the Monkees (a group for which he auditioned just was non chosen[11]) on a 1969 single, and was the first Monkees' release not published by Screen Gems.[ commendation needed ]
A frequent co-writer of Williams' was musician Kenneth Ascher. Their songs together included the popular children's favorite "Rainbow Connection", sung by Jim Henson (as Kermit the Frog) in The Muppet Motion picture (1979). They also wrote "You And Me Against The World", which became a Top 10 striking on Billboard for Helen Reddy in 1974.
Williams worked on the music for a number of films, including writing and singing on Phantom of the Paradise (1974) in which he as well starred and earned an Oscar nomination for the music, and Bugsy Malone (1976). Williams also wrote and sang the song "Where Do I Go from Here", which was used in the finish credits of the Michael Cimino-directed pic Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, which starred Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges. He contributed lyrics to the Cinderella Liberty song "You're And then Prissy to Exist Around" with music by John Williams, and it earned them an Oscar nomination. Forth with Ascher and Rupert Holmes, he wrote the music and lyrics to A Star Is Born (also 1976), with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. The beloved ballad, "Evergreen", (lyrics past Paul Williams, melody by Barbra Streisand) from the movie A Star Is Built-in won the Academy Accolade for Best Original Song and a Grammy for Song of the Year. He has been nominated on other occasions for an University Award[12] and several Golden Globe Awards.[thirteen]
In 1987 he wrote the songs performed by Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty in the film Ishtar.[14]
He wrote the music for a musical product of Happy Days that debuted in 2007 and besides made a cameo appearance as an animated version of himself singing "Breathe in the Sunshine" in the striking animated series Dexter'south Laboratory. [15] [ failed verification ] He wrote and sang "What Would They Say", the theme song from the made-for-tv set film The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976), a film starring John Travolta alongside Diana Hyland.
More recently, Williams wrote music and lyrics of "Silence is Our Song" for Richard Barone's 2010 album Glow [16] and collaborated with Scissor Sisters on their 2d anthology, Ta-Dah.
In March 2012, it was appear that Williams had "written a couple of tunes" on Random Access Memories, the album of French electronic duo Daft Punk.[17] He co-wrote and sang vocals on "Touch" and co-wrote "Beyond". Williams and Nile Rodgers were the only featured artists to speak on behalf of Daft Punk at the 2014 Grammy Awards upon their receipt of the Album of the Yr award for Random Admission Memories. Williams told an anecdote virtually his work with Daft Punk: "Back when I was drinking, I would imagine things that weren't there and I'd get frightened. Then I got sober and two robots called and asked me to brand an anthology." He also communicated a "message from the robots" to the audience: "Equally elegant and as classy every bit the Grammy has always been is the moment when we saw those wonderful marriages and "Same Dearest" is fantastic. It is the height of fairness and love and the ability of beloved for all people at any time in whatever combination. Captain Kirk uses the Enterprise. They sail on a ship called Generosity. They are generous in spirit ... This is a labor of honey and we are all so grateful."[18]
Williams is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame,[19] and his songs accept been performed by both pop and country music artists. In Apr 2009, Williams was elected President and Chairman of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).[twenty]
In September 2015, Williams, along with bass thespian Kasim Sulton, led a global virtual songwriting collaboration at Hookist.com.[21] The mission was to write the 1st ever crowd-sourced anthem to be performed at FacingAddiction.org'south concert and rally on The National Mall on October 4, 2015, headlined by Steven Tyler, Sheryl Crow and Joe Walsh amid others.[22] The theme of the song was "Celebrate Recovery" and the goal was to reduce the stigma associated with habit. Williams, Sulton and Dr. Mehmet Oz opened the show and led 10,000 people in a singalong of "Voice Of Change" at the base of the Washington Monument.[23] Sulton also led a singalong of the song on The Dr. Oz Show which quickly went viral.[24]
Moving picture and tv set career [edit]
Although predominantly known for his music, Paul Williams has too appeared in films and many tv set guest spots, such equally the Faustian record producer Swan in Brian DePalma'southward film Phantom of the Paradise (1974)—a rock and coil adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera, Faust, and The Movie of Dorian Gray, for which Williams besides wrote the songs[25]—and as Virgil, the genius orangutan in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973).
On February 9, 1973, Williams made a joke appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in which he sang a vocal in total make-up as Virgil.[26] He also played Migelito Loveless, Jr. in The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979), a reunion moving picture featuring the original cast of the television series The Wild Wild West. He played himself, singing a song to Felix Unger'southward daughter Edna, on the telly series The Odd Couple in 1974. He made his film debut as Gunther Fry in the satire The Loved One (1965).
After appearing on The Muppet Bear witness in 1976, Williams worked closely with Jim Henson's Henson Productions on The Muppet Movie, working on the soundtrack and appearing in a cameo part every bit the piano actor in the nightclub (who had a sign on the piano saying "Don't shoot pianoforte player") where Kermit the Frog meets Fozzie Behave. He was besides the lyricist for Ant Otter's Jug-Band Christmas.
Williams was hired by Television set producers Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas to write title tracks for 2 of their ABC comedies, It Takes Two (1982–1983), on which he sang a duet with Crystal Gayle, and Condo (1983), in which Williams' theme was sung by Drake Frye. Williams also equanimous and performed the theme to the McLean Stevenson sitcom The McLean Stevenson Show in 1976.[27]
Williams also equanimous, and sang "Flying Dreams" for the animated film The Secret of NIMH.[28]
Williams has appeared in many minor roles. He provided the vocalism of The Penguin in Batman: The Animated Series. He appeared on an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger as a radio DJ roofing a mod-solar day Bonnie and Clyde. He appeared in 2008 in an episode of Nickelodeon's children's show Yo Gabba Gabba! entitled "Weather", where he performed "Rainbow Connectedness". He has as well appeared on Drawing Network's Dexter's Laboratory where he played Professor Williams in an episode entitled "Just An Old Fashioned Lab Song".
He fabricated numerous television appearances in the 1970s and 1980s, including on The Odd Couple, Hawaii 5-O, Match Game '79, Hollywood Squares, The Beloved Gunkhole,Police Adult female, Fantasy Island, The Hardy Boys, The Fall Guy, The Flip Wilson Special, Gimme A Break, and The Gong Evidence. He has besides guest-starred in the Babylon 5 episode "Acts of Sacrifice" (Season two Episode 12) as Taq, the adjutant to Correlilmurzon, an alien ambassador whose species finalizes treaties and agreements by having sex with the other signees.
In a bit of subtle irony, Williams besides appeared in the Star Expedition: Voyager episode "Virtuoso" as the leader of a planet that has never heard music before. Williams appeared on an episode of Picket Fences as the brother of the only deceased Ginny Weedon (Zelda Rubinstein). While eulogizing Ginny, he sings a minor part of "Rainbow Connexion". He starred as Ferdinand the Bull in a musical half-hr Television receiver production of the same proper noun written by the Sherman Brothers.
In October 1980, Williams was host of the Mickey Mouse Club 25th Anniversary Special on NBC-TV. He stated that he tried out for the evidence in early 1955 and was turned downwardly. He was a frequent guest and performer on The This evening Evidence Starring Johnny Carson. He also appears as the human making the telephone call at the start of the music video for Hank Williams Jr.'s vocal "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight". In 2014, he appeared on Community [29] every bit an illegal textbook dealer who declines to purchase a batch of misprinted chemistry textbooks.[thirty] Williams appeared in the 2017 film Baby Commuter equally the Butcher, an arms dealer.
He portrayed the graphic symbol of Little Enos Burdette in Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), and Smokey and the Bandit Part three (1983). He has a recurring role as a quondam lawyer and information source in 2018's season 2 and 2019's flavour iii of Goliath.
Personal life [edit]
Williams has been married three times. He has two children, Sarah and Cole Williams (born 1981), from his first marriage (1971) to Kate Clinton.[ commendation needed ] In 1993 he married Hilda Keenan Wynn,[31] daughter of actor Keenan Wynn. He is now married to author Mariana Williams.[32]
An experienced skydiver, Williams completed over 100 jumps in the 1970s.
In September 2011, director Stephen Kessler's documentary Paul Williams However Live premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Williams struggled with alcohol and substance abuse during the 1970s and 1980s.[33] Sober since 1990, Williams has been active in the field of recovery from addictions and became a Certified Drug Rehabilitation Counselor through UCLA. In 2014, he co-authored Gratitude and Trust: Recovery is Not Just for Addicts, with Tracey Jackson.[34]
Songwriting [edit]
Notable songs [edit]
- "Love Dance", (Williams provided the lyrics. Written with Ivan Lins and Victor Martins, it was recorded by Ivan Lins, Barbra Streisand, and Sarah Vaughan, among others. It is considered a jazz standard.)[35] [36] [37] [38]
- "Evergreen (Honey Theme from A Star Is Born)", (#ane hit for Barbra Streisand - Billboard Hot 100)[39]
- "I Won't Last a 24-hour interval Without You", (#1 hit for Carpenters - Billboard Adult Contemporary)[twoscore]
- "Rainy Days and Mondays", (#ane hit for Carpenters - Billboard Developed Gimmicky)[41]
- "Nosotros've But Just Begun" (#1 striking for Carpenters - Billboard Adult Contemporary)[42]
- "The Family unit of Homo" (Canadian #five hit for Three Dog Night)
- "An Old Fashioned Beloved Song" (#4 striking for Three Dog Night)
- "Out in the Country" (#fifteen hitting for Iii Dog Night)
- "Talk It Over in the Morning" (Canadian #1 hit for Anne Murray)
- "You and Me Confronting the World" (US Easy Listening #1 striking for Helen Reddy)
- "Rainbow Connection" (Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated song, Entered into the US Library of Congress Archive, #25 hit for Kermit the Frog - Billboard Hot 100)
- "Flying Dreams" (from The Hugger-mugger of NIMH soundtrack)
- "Allow Me Be the 1" (#xviii U.Due south R&B chart hit for The Carpenters and Al Wilson)
- "Someday Man" (The Monkees – 1969 – "B" Side of "Heed to the Ring" single)
- "Bear upon" (Daft Punk – 2013 – Random Access Memories)
- "You're Gone" (Us Country #iv hit for Diamond Rio)
Tv set themes (lyricist) [edit]
- Griffin and Phoenix (1976 TV picture, theme vocal "A Perfect Love" video by Gord Ritchie)
- The McLean Stevenson Show
- Another Day (1978 Telly series theme vocal)
- The Love Boat
- It Takes Two
- Carbohydrate Time!
- Ant Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
Notable recordings [edit]
- "The Family of Man" (from A Footling Scrap of Love [1974])
- "Out in the Country" (from Life Goes On [1972])
Scores [edit]
Films [edit]
- Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
- Bugsy Malone (1976)
- Ant Otter's Jug-Ring Christmas (1977)
- Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
- The End (1978)
- The Muppet Movie (1979)
- The Night They Saved Christmas (1984)
- Ishtar (1987)
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
- The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
Theatre [edit]
- Bugsy Malone (1997)
- Happy Days (2007)
- Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (2008)
Notable songs written for movie soundtracks [edit]
- "Where Practise I Get From Here" (composed and performed by Williams for Thunderbolt and Lightfoot) (1974)
- "Evergreen (Beloved Song from A Star Is Born)" (lyrics written past Williams, University and Golden Earth winner for Best Original Song) (1976)
- "What Would They Say?" (for The Boy in the Plastic Bubble starring John Travolta and Diana Hyland) (1976)
- "Rainbow Connection" (co-composed past Williams for The Muppet Movie, 2020 National Recording Registry inductee[43]) (1979)
- "Flying Dreams" (co-composed with Jerry Goldsmith and performed by Williams for The Secret of N.I.M.H) (1982)
- "When Love is Gone" (co-composed by Williams for The Muppet Christmas Carol) (1992)
- "If We Could Think" (co-composed with Jerry Goldsmith for The Sum of All Fears) (2002)
- "Yet Live" (composed and performed by Williams for Paul Williams Still Alive) (2011)
- "I Dear You Too Much" and "The Apology Song" (co-composed with Gustavo Santaolalla for The Book of Life) (2014)
- "Time and Tide" (equanimous past Paul Williams and performed by Dale Menten for Lifeguard) (1976)
Discography [edit]
Albums [edit]
| Year | Title | Label | US Chart[44] | AUS Charts[45] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 196? | Words and Music by Paul Williams | Big Seven Music Corp. | - | |
| 1970 | Anytime Man | Reprise | - | |
| 1971 | Only an Old Fashioned Love Song | A&Chiliad | 141 | 22 |
| 1972 | Life Goes On | A&G | 159 | - |
| 1974 | Hither Comes Inspiration | A&1000 | 165 | - |
| 1974 | A Petty Bit of Love | A&M | 95 | - |
| 1975 | Ordinary Fool | A&M | 146 | - |
| 1979 | A Picayune on the Windy Side | Portrait | 90 | |
| 1981 | ...And Crazy for Loving You | PalD | - | |
| 1997 | Back to Dearest Again | Pioneer | - | |
| 2005 | I'grand Going Back At that place Someday | AIX | - |
Soundtracks [edit]
| Year | Title | Label | AUS Charts[45] | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Phantom of the Paradise | A&Chiliad | 94 | |
| 1976 | Bugsy Malone | Polydor | ||
| 1976 | A Star Is Built-in | Columbia | Motion Picture Soundtrack; with Kenny Ascher | |
| 1977 | One on 1: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Warner Bros. | Lyrics by Williams, music by Charles Fox; performed past Seals and Crofts | |
| 1979 | The Muppet Movie: Original Soundtrack Recording | Atlantic | By Williams and Kenny Ascher | |
| 1982 | The Surreptitious of NIMH: Original Motion Picture show Soundtrack | MCA | Williams performs the vocal "Flying Dreams" | |
| 1987 | Ishtar | Lyrics by Williams | ||
| 1992 | The Muppet Christmas Carol | Walt Disney Records |
Compilations [edit]
| Year | Championship | Label | Nautical chart | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | The Best of Paul Williams | A&M | ||
| 1977 | Classics | A&Thousand | 155 | |
| 1988 | Paul Williams | Pickwick | ||
| 2004 | Evergreens: The Best of the A&M Years | Hip-O Select |
Other releases [edit]
- The Holy Mackerel (with The Holy Mackerel) (1969)
- We've Only Just Begun (past Roger Nichols and Paul Williams) (2001)
- Random Access Memories (Daft Punk) (Williams features on two tracks) (2013)
Filmography [edit]
Film [edit]
Television set [edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970–1982 | The This night Show Starring Johnny Carson | Himself | |
| 1973–1975 | The Midnight Special | Host | |
| 1974 | The Odd Couple | Himself | |
| 1974 | Baretta | Sandy | |
| 1975 | When Things Were Rotten | Guy de Maupassant | |
| 1976 | Good Heavens | Henry Clyde | |
| 1976 | The McLean Stevenson Show | Himself | |
| 1976 | The Muppet Show | Himself | |
| 1977 | The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Allison Troy | |
| 1977 | Police Adult female | Willy Jaques | |
| 1977 | The Brady Bunch Hr | Himself | |
| 1977 | The Donny & Marie Evidence | Himself | |
| 1977 | The Captain and Tennille Show | Himself | |
| 1978–1982 | The Dear Boat | Various | |
| 1979 | Hawaii Five-O | Tim Powers / Stringer | |
| 1979 | The Mary Tyler Moore 60 minutes | Himself | |
| 1979 | The Wild Wild Westward Revisited | Dr. Miguelito Loveless, Jr. | TV movie |
| 1979–1980 | Lucifer Game | Himself | |
| 1980–1982 | Fantasy Island | Diverse | |
| 1981 | B. J. and the Bear | Dante Defoe | |
| 1981–1982 | The Autumn Guy | Diverse | |
| 1982 | Rooster | Rooster Steele | Goggle box pic |
| 1985 | Argent Spoons | Al Butler | |
| 1984 | The Night They Saved Christmas | Ed | TV movie |
| 1987 | Frog | Gus | TV movie |
| 1987 | Gimme a Break! | Helm Jerk | |
| 1989 | 227 | Stan | "Play It Again, Stan" |
| 1990 | The Trials of Rosie O'Neill | Sven Ingerson | |
| 1991 | She-Wolf of London | Harvey the Troll | |
| 1993 | Hart to Hart Returns | Duke | |
| 1994 | Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die | Knuckles | |
| 1994 | Picket Fences | Benjamin Weedon | |
| 1995 | Babylon 5 | Taq | |
| 1995 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Tumbleweed Tom | |
| 1996 | Boston Mutual | Male parent Rooney | |
| 1997 | Perversions of Science | Dr. Mueller | |
| 1997 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The Telly Testify | Mahoney the Giant | |
| 1998 | The Assuming and the Beautiful | Bailey Masterson | |
| 2000 | Star Trek: Voyager | Koru | |
| 2008 | A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa | The Head Elf | |
| 2008 | Yo Gabba Gabba! | Performer | |
| 2011 | Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Himself | |
| 2012 | The View | Himself | |
| 2013–2017 | Fast Due north' Loud | Himself | |
| 2014 | Community | Britta's Contact | "VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing" |
| 2018–2019 | Goliath | James "JT" Reginald Iii | [46] |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | The Final Halloween | Gleep | Television receiver short |
| Timeless Tales from Authentication | Frogbrauten | Episode: "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" | |
| 1992 | Fish Police | Episode: "No Way to Care for a Fillet-dy" | |
| 1992–1994 | Batman: The Animated Series | The Penguin / Oswald Cobblepot | seven episodes |
| 1992–1993 | The Pirates of Night Water | Garen | 13 episodes |
| 1993 | The Fable of Prince Valiant | Grafton Commander / Brother John | 2 episodes |
| The Town Santa Forgot | Pomp the Elf | Christmas television special | |
| 1994–1995 | Phantom 2040 | Mr. Cairo | 13 episodes |
| 1995 | Aaahh!!! Existent Monsters | Izzith | Episode: "Where Have All the Monsters Gone?" |
| The Tick | Mother of Invention | Episode: "Leonardo da Vinci and His Fightin' Genius Time Commandos!" | |
| Captain Planet and the Planeteers | Kujo | Episode: "V Ring Panda-Monium" | |
| 1998 | The New Batman Adventures | The Penguin / Oswald Cobblepot | 4 episodes |
| Dexter'due south Laboratory | Professor Williams | Episode: "Merely an Old Fashioned Lab Song" | |
| Superman: The Animated Serial | The Penguin / Oswald Cobblepot | Episode: "Knight Time" | |
| 2015 | Adventure Time | The Hierophant | Episode: "Stakes" Parts 2,iii And five |
| 2016–2018 | Future-Worm! | Future Danny | 2 episodes |
| 2019 | Twelve Forever | Captain Elmer | Episode: "Stranger Forever" |
Legacy [edit]
The Rainbow Connection was inducted into the National Recording Registry in 2020.[47]
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- Skinner, Curtis (2001), Gimmicky Authors Online, Detroit: Gale, ISBN978-0-7876-3995-2
- Williams, Paul; Jackson, Tracey (2015), Gratitude and Trust: Six Affirmations That Will Change Your Life, Plume, ISBN978-0147517968
- ASCAP (1980) The ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, 4th ed., p. 545 ISBN 0-8352-1283-one .
- Colin Larkin (ed.) (1992) The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 1st ed., p. 2698, ISBN 1-882267-04-four .
External links [edit]
- paulwilliamsofficial.com — Paul Williams Official Website
- gratitudeandtrust.com — Paul Williams Web log on Recovery
- paulwilliamsstillalive.com – Paul Williams Still Alive – Paul Williams documentary
- paulwilliams.co.great britain – Paul Williams' Music & Acting Page
- Paul Williams at IMDb
- Paul Williams at the TCM Movie Database
- Paul Williams discography at Discogs
- Jim Bennett's interview with Paul Williams
- Songfacts Interview
- Songwriters Hall of Fame Biography
- Interview with Paul Williams NAMM Oral History Library, June 12, 2013.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Williams_(songwriter)
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