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This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. Today, we're going to remember lyricist Alan Bergman, half of the long-running songwriting duo with his wife Marilyn Bergman. Here's a sampling of some of their ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. Today, we're going to remember lyricist Alan Bergman, half of the long-running songwriting duo with his wife Marilyn Bergman. Here's a sampling of some of their ...

And some of the early songs of mine, you can hear Johnny Mercer in them, trying to emulate him till I found and we found our own voice. GROSS: Alan Bergman, one of the songs you sing on your new album ...

JOHNNY MATHIS: (Singing) What are you doing the rest of your life? North and south and east and west of your life. I have only one request of your life, that you spend it all with me. (SOUNDBITE OF ...