Composer Marvin Hamlisch has died at age 68 in Los Angeles.
I thought I should note him passing since one of his songs was part of the inspiration for a recent comic, Kiss Today Goodbye.
Oddly enough, the casual reader would've guessed that I'd used that show's closing number, "One".
I saw Hamlisch perform once at Jones Beach. My (then) girlfriend wanted to see Liza Minnelli, and he opened. Very nice job on the piano, playing a bunch of songs I had been familiar with but didn't know he had anything to do with. And he played the "overture" from A Chorus Line, which didn't actually have an overture, but it was the one he would've written for it.
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