Top-40, Broadway, and film composer Marvin Hamlisch has passed away at the age of 68. Though his name might not be familiar to the generation of people born after the Baby Boomer generation, Hamlisch was a very big name in the music world in the late 1960s and 1970s. After having some Top-40 successes with singer Lesley Gore, Hamlisch went on to write the score for over 40 films (some of which produced major hit theme songs), including his Academy Award-winning adaptation of Scott Joplin’s music for the film The Sting. Hamlisch’s major Broadway achievement was his Tony Award-winning/Pulitzer Prize-winning show A Chorus Line. Below is a selection of YouTube videos of the classic songs for which Hamlisch wrote the music.

“The Way We Were” (from the film of the same title)

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“California Nights”

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“Nobody Does It Better” (from the film The Spy Who Loved Me)

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“Through the Eyes of Love” (from the film Ice Castles)

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“The Last Time I Felt Like This” (from the film Same Time Next Year)

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“What I Did for Love” (from the Broadway show A Chorus Line)

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“I Finally Found Someone” (from the film The Mirror Has Two Faces)

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And his final major song that he wrote in the 1990s for his friend Barbra Streisand, “Ordinary Miracles”