Martin Charnin(1934-2019)
- Writer
- Music Department
- Producer
Songwriter ("Easy Come, Easy Go"), composer, actor and author. He
performed in the Broadway stage production of "West Side Story", and
wrote the lyrics for other stage offerings, including the off-Broadway
production "Fallout", Julius Monk's night club revues, the Broadway
show "The Girls Against the Boys", and the 1964 New York World's Fair
show "To Broadway With Love". He wrote the Broadway stage score for
"Hot Spot". Joining ASCAP in 1962, his chief musical collaborator was
Mary Rodgers, and his other popular-song compositions include "Perfect
Strangers", "Gabie", "Hey, Love", "I Think the World of You", "Welcome
to Our Country", "A Little Trouble Goes a Long, Long Way", "Nebraska",
"Big Meeting Tonight", "That's Good - That's Bad", and "Ten Good
Years".