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 … Continue reading Marvin Hamlisch, RIP