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Carolyn Leigh

American lyricist for Broadway, film

1926 – 1983aged 57

A lyricist who, with composer Cy Coleman, wrote the standards "Witchcraft" and "The Best Is Yet to Come," songs that became staples of the American songbook decades after they were written. With composer Johnny Richards she wrote "Young at Heart," the million-selling title song of the 1954 Frank Sinatra film, cementing her reputation as one of Broadway and popular music's sharpest lyric writers of the mid-twentieth century.

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