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Bookmark or Share- Joseph Brooks (songwriter) - WikipediaJoseph Brooks, born Joseph Kaplan (March 11, 1938 – May 22, 2011), was an American composer, director, producer, and screenwriter. He was a prolific writer of advertising jingles and wrote the hit songs " My Ship Is Comin' In ", " If Ever I See You Again ", and " You Light Up My Life ", the last for the hit film of the same name that he also ...
- Joseph Brooks, a Maker of Jingles, Songs and Films, Dies at 73May 23, 2011. Before his life had tumbled into scandal and ended over the weekend in suicide at the age of 73, Joseph Brooks had carved out a glittering, idiosyncratic career as author of some...
- Joseph Brooks Dies: You Light Up My Life Oscar Winner's Apparent SuicideJoseph Brooks was originally a writer of jingles who later won an Oscar and Grammy award for his 1977 Debby Boone hit, “You Light Up My Life.” But on Sunday afternoon, his life ended in...
- You Light Up My Life: The dark story behind Debby Boone's Oscar-winning ...The man who accepted that Oscar in 1978 was former jingle writer Joseph Brooks, who not only composed the song but also wrote and directed the film.
- Joseph Brooks, 'You Light Up My Life' Songwriter, Dies in Apparent ...By ABC News. May 22, 2011, 11:43 AM. May 22, 2011 -- Grammy-winning songwriter Joseph Brooks died today in his Manhattan apartment in what police are calling an apparent suicide, according to The Associated Press. Brooks, 73, was found with a plastic dry-cleaning bag around his head and a towel wrapped around his neck, police told the AP.
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