Hal David(1921-2012)

Composer
Music Department
Actor

Songwriter ("Magic Moments", "Baby Elephant Walk", "What the World Needs Now is Love") and author, educated at New York University. Joining ASCAP in 1943, he collaborated musically with Burt Bacharach, Sherman Edwards, Lee Pockriss, [error], Redd Evans, Don Rodney, John Barry and Henry Mancini. His other popular-song compositions include "Four Winds and the Seven Seas, The", "American Beauty Rose", "My Heart is an Open Book", "Broken-Hearted Melody", "What Do You See in Her?", "Sea of Heart Break", "La Charanga", "Our Concerto", "Johnny Get Angry", "You'll Answer to Me", "Don't Make Me Over", "Make it Easy on Yourself", "Only Love Can Break a Heart", "Story of My Life, The", "Blue on Blue", "True Love Never Runs Smooth", "24 Hours From Tulsa", "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?", "Anyone who Had a Heart", "Walk On By", "Any Old Time of the Day", "Reach Out for Me", "I Wake Up Cryin'", "Don't Envy Me", "First Night of the Full Moon, The", "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me", "Magic Potion", "This Empty Place", "You'll Never Get to Heaven", "To Wait For Love", "Trains and Boats and Planes", "We Have All The Time in the World" and "Lifetime of Loneliness, A".

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Won 1 Oscar
- 7 wins & 20 nominations total

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Known for

My Best Friend's Wedding

6.3

Soundtrack("Wishin' and Hopin'", "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself", "Do You Know the Way to San Jose", "I Say a Little Prayer", "What the World Needs Now is Love", "I Say a Little Prayer" (uncredited), "I Say A Little Prayer (Reggae Mix)" (uncredited))

1997

Casino Royale

5.0

Soundtrack("The Look of Love", "Have no Fear Bond is Here")

1967

The Jacket

7.1

Soundtrack("We Have all the Time in the World")

2005

No Time to Die

7.3

Soundtrack("We Have all the Time in the World")

2021

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Midnight Opus
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- 2024
Tyga: Paint the Town Red (Justin Credible's Freestyles)
Music Video
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- 2023
Doja Cat: Paint the Town Red
7.8
Music Video
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- 2023
Seal: Walk on By
Music Video
- Composer
- 2004
Twista Feat. Kanye West & Jamie Foxx: Slow Jamz
6.0
Music Video
- Composer
- 2003
The White Stripes: I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself
7.2
Music Video
- Composer
- 2003
Matmatah: Toujours un coin qui me rappelle
Music Video
- Composer
- 2002
Diana King: Say a Little Prayer
5.4
Music Video
- Composer
- 1997
Olivia Newton-John: Reach Out for Me
6.8
Music Video
- Composer
- 1989
Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson: To All the Girls I've Loved Before
6.8
Music Video
- Composer
- 1984
Naked Eyes: Always Something There to Remind Me
7.5
Music Video
- Composer
- 1982
Dionne Warwick: I Say A Little Prayer (MDA Telethon Version)
Music Video
- Composer
- 1977
The Carpenters: (They Long to Be) Close to You (Version 2)
5.2
Music Video
- Composer
- 1970
The Carpenters: (They Long to Be) Close to You (Version 1)
6.3
Music Video
- Composer
- 1970
Dionne Warwick: I Say A Little Prayer (Live)
7.0
Music Video
- Composer
- 1967

Music Department

Barbra Streisand: Be Aware
7.7
Music Video
- Music Department
- 2021
Dionne Warwick: What the World Needs Now
Music Video
- Music Department
- 2019
Cutting Edge
6.7
TV Series
- music (as Bacharach/David)
- 1996
Olivia Newton-John: Reach Out for Me
6.8
Music Video
- lyrics by
- 1989
Sisters
TV Movie
- lyrics
- 1986
From Sea to Shining Sea
TV Series
- theme song lyrics
- 1974
Lost Horizon
5.2
- lyrics by
- 1973
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
6.7
- lyricist
- 1969
The Kraft Music Hall
6.4
TV Series
- lyricist
- 1968
Dionne Warwick: I Say A Little Prayer (Live)
7.0
Music Video
- music producer
- 1967
ABC Stage 67
7.5
TV Series
- lyricist
- 1966
What's New Pussycat
6.1
- composer: songs
- 1965

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Official site
- Official Hal david website
Alternative names
- Bacharach/David
Born
- May 25, 1921
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died
- September 1, 2012
- West Hollywood, California, USA(complications from a stroke)
Spouses
Relatives
- Mack David(Sibling)
Other works
Stage: Wrote lyrics for "Promises, Promises" on Broadway. Musical comedy. Book by Neil Simon. Based on the film The Apartment (1960) written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. Music by Burt Bacharach. Musical Director / Dance arrangements by Harold Wheeler. Music orchestrated by Jonathan Tunick. Choreographed by Michael Bennett. Assistant Choreographer: Bob Avian. Directed by Robert Moore. Shubert Theatre: 1 Dec 1968-1 Jan 1972 (1281 performances + 7 previews). Cast: Jill O'Hara (as "Fran Kubelik"), Jerry Orbach (as "Chuck Baxter"), A. Larry Haines (as "Dr. Dreyfuss"), Edward Winter (as "J.D. Sheldrake"), Barbara Alston (as "Intern's Date"), Adrienne Angel (as "Sylvia Gilhooley"), Rod Barry (as "New Young Executive" / "Clancy's Lounge Patron"), Carole Bishop (as "Company Nurse" / "Clancy's Lounge Patron"), Kelly Britt (as "Orchestra Voice"), Gene Cooper (as "Clancy's Lounge Patron"), Graciela Daniele (as "Clancy's Employee" / "Intern's Date"), Bob Fitch (as "Clancy's Lounge Patron"), Margot Hanson (as "Orchestra Voice"), Betsy Haug (as "Dining Room Hostess" / "Clancy's Employee"), Ken Howard (as "Bartender Eddie" / "Karl Kubelik"), Neil Jones (as "Clancy's Lounge Patron"), Baayork Lee (as "Lum Ding Hostess" / "Miss Wong"), Debra Lyman (as "Swing Dancer"), Bettye McCormick (as "Orchestra Voice"), Donna McKechnie (as "Vivien Della Hoya"), Marian Mercer (as "Marge MacDougall"), Vince O'Brien (as "Mr. Eichelberger"), Rita O'Connor (as "Dentist's Nurse" / "Clancy's Lounge Patron"), Gerry O'Hara (as "Company Doctor" / "Intern"), Dick O'Neill (as "Jesse Vanderhof"), Kay Oslin (as "Helen Sheldrake"), Scott Pearson (as "Waiter" / "Clancy's Lounge Patron"), Paul Reed (as "Mr. Dobitch"), Margo Sappington (as "Miss Polanski" / "Clancy's Employee"), Michael Shawn (as "Intern" / "Clancy's Lounge Patron"), Norman Shelly (as "Mr. Kirkeby"), Ilona Simon (as "Orchestra Voice"), Millie Slavin (as "Peggy Olson"), Julane Stites (as "Clancy's Lounge Patron"), Don Stomsvik (as "Swing Dancer"), Melissa Stoneburn (as "Clancy's Lounge Patron"), Michael Vita (as "Madison Square Garden Attendant" / "Bartender Eugene"). Standby: Peter Lombard (as "Chuck Baxter" / "J.D. Sheldrake"). Understudies: Kelly Britt (as "Marge MacDougall"), Bob Fitch (as "Mr. Kirkeby"), Rita O'Connor (as "Peggy Olson"), Dick O'Neill (as "Mr. Dobitch"), Margo Sappington (as "Fran Kubelik"), Norman Shelly (as "Dr. Dreyfuss"), Henry Sutton (as "Jesse Vanderhof" / "Mr. Eichelberger"), Michael Vita (as "Karl Kubelik"). Produced by David Merrick. Associate Producer: Samuel Liff.
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Trivia
In 1957, David met composer Burt Bacharach, destined to be his most famous collaborator, at the coincidentally named "Famous Music" in the Brill Building, New York City. Soon after meeting, Bacharach and David wrote their first major hit, "The Story of My Life", recorded by Marty Robbins, released in 1957. Later in 1957, Perry Como also succeed with Bacharach and David's "Magic Moments".

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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.