Marvin Hamlisch

In 1977, he wrote the score for the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, as John Barry was unable to work in the United Kingdom due to tax reasons. In 1996, Jacks produced the CD "A Good Thing Lost 1968-1973" that was a collection of The Poppy Family songs. In 1973, he became the first person to win three Academy Awards in the same evening. and lending his name to United Kingdom organizations such as The Woodland Trust. He is one of only a few people people to win all four major performing awards, Emmy Award, Grammy Award, the Oscar and Tony Award, see List of people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. He has also involved himself with the environmental movement, focusing on issues such as pollution and environmental health in Canada and the U.S. Hamlisch was born in New York City. Terry Jacks wrote and recorded a number of other songs plus he went on to become a successful record producer for other Canadian singers, earning a Juno nomination as Producer of the Year.

He is perhaps best known for his adaptation of Scott Joplin's ragtime music for the motion picture The Sting, including its theme song, The Entertainer. In the United States, the song went to No.1 on the charts. Marvin Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is one of the most successful composers of the twentieth century. Released in 1973 on his own record label, the song became the largest-selling single in Canadian history and earned Jacks three Juno Awards. 1972 Nominee, Best Original Song - "Life Is What You Make It" from Kotch. When the group chose not to go with it on their album, Jacks decided to do it himself but first set about to rewrite the final verse and to rearrange parts of the chorus. 1974 Winner, Best Original Song Score and/or Adaptation - The Sting. Jacks' marriage also dissolved, although he and his wife remained friends and he produced her first solo album in 1973. Working on his own, Terry Jacks helped on a Beach Boys album that initially included the recording of an English language version of the 1961 Jacques Brel song, Seasons In The Sun.

1974 Winner, Best Original Song - "The Way We Were" from The Way We Were. The Poppy Family won for the Juno for best group and immediately followed up with "Poppy Seeds" but it never achieved anything close to that initial success and eventually The Poppy Family split up. 1974 Winner, Best Original Dramatic Score - The Way We Were. The single won a Juno Award while Terry Jacks earned two Junos for best producer of a single and of an album. 1978 Nominee, Best Original Song - "Nobody Does It Better" from The Spy Who Loved Me. They eked out a living until 1969 when their band burst onto the national charts with their Terry Jacks produced debut album titled "Which Way You Goin' Billy? " that saw the 45rpm single go to No.1 in Canada and reach No.2 on the Billboard charts in the United States, selling upwards of three million copies. 1978 Nominee, Best Original Score - The Spy Who Loved Me. Jacks and Pesklevits soon developed a personal relationship that led to marriage.

1979 Nominee, Best Original Song - "The Last Time I Felt Like This" from Same Time Next Year. For a time the duo performed at small clubs in Vancouver before adding another guitarist and drummer and restyling themselves as the "The Poppy Family.". 1980 Nominee, Best Original Song - "Through The Eyes of Love" from Ice Castles. Jacks composed, arranged, and produced their material while Pesklevits sang lead vocals. 1983 Nominee, Best Original Score - Sophie's Choice. Growing up as part of the hippie generation a teenage Terry Jacks migrated to the west coast where, as a guitarist and singer, he joined a Vancouver, British Columbia band called "The Chessmen." The group had a few minor local hits before disbanding after which Jacks teamed up with soloist, Susan Pesklevits (born 1948). 1986 Nominee, Best Original Song - "Surprise Surprise" from A Chorus Line. Terry Jacks (born March 29, 1944 in Winnipeg) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and environmentalist.

1990 Nominee, Best Original Song - "The Girl Who Used To Be Me" from Shirley Valentine. 1997 Nominee, Best Original Song - "I've Finally Found Someone" from The Mirror Has Two Faces. The Swimmer (1968). Ski Patrol (1968).

Take the Money and Run (1969). The April Fools (1969). Move (1970). Flap (1970).

Something Big (1971). Kotch (1971). Bananas (1971). The War Between Men and Women (1972).

Fat City (1972). The World's Greatest Athlete (1973). Save the Tiger (1973). The Way We Were (1974).

The Sting (1974). The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975). Funny Lady (1975). The Entertainer (1976).

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977). Same Time Next Year (1978). The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978).

Ice Castles (1978). Starting Over (1979). Chapter Two (1979). Seems Like Old Times (1980).

Ordinary People (1980). Gilda Live (1980). Sophie's Choice (1982). I Ought To Be In Pictures (1982).

Romantic Comedy (1983). A Streetcar Named Desire (1984). DARYL (1985). A Chorus Line (1985).

When the Time Comes (1987). The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987). Three Men and a Baby (1987). The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1987).

Sam Found Out: A Triple Play (1988). Little Nikita (1988). David (1988). January Man (1989).

Shirley Valentine (1989). The Experts (1989). Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990). Switched at Birth (1991).

Missing Pieces (1991). Frankie and Johnny (1991). Seasons of the Heart (1994). Open Season (1996).

The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). (2002) Imaginary Friends. (2002) Sweet Smell of Success. (1993) The Goodbye Girl.

(1986) Smile. (1983) Jean. (1978) They're Playing Our Song. (1975) A Chorus Line (Pulitzer Prize).

(1973) Seesaw. (1970) Minnie's Boys.