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1) John Towner Williams (… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least five artists with this name;
1) John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history, including those of the Star Wars series, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, the first two Home Alone films, Hook, the first two Jurassic Park films, Schindler's List, and the first three Harry Potter films.
Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but three of his feature films. Other works by Williams include theme music for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, "The Mission" theme used by NBC News and Seven News in Australia, the television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, and the incidental music for the first season of Gilligan's Island. Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. He served as the Boston Pops's principal conductor from 1980 to 1993, and is currently the orchestra's laureate conductor.
Williams has won 24 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With 51 Academy Award nominations, Williams is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. In 2005, the American Film Institute selected Williams's score to 1977's Star Wars as the greatest American film score of all time. The soundtrack to Star Wars was additionally preserved by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016. Williams composed the score for eight of the top 20 highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office (adjusted for inflation).
John Towner Williams was born on February 8, 1932 in Floral Park, New York, to Esther (née Towner) and Johnny Williams, a jazz percussionist who played with the Raymond Scott Quintet. Williams has said of his lineage, "My father was a Maine man—we were very close. My mother was from Boston. My father's parents ran a department store in Bangor, Maine, and my mother's father was a cabinetmaker. [...] People with those roots are not inclined to be lazy."
Williams married Barbara Ruick, an American actress and singer, in 1956. Together they had three children: Jennifer (b. 1956), Mark Towner Williams (b. 1958), and Joseph (b. 1960), who is the lead singer of Toto. The two remained married until her death in 1974. In 1980, Williams married Samantha Winslow, a photographer.
2) John Christopher Williams is a classical guitar player.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, on 24 April 1941, to an English father (Len Williams) and an Australian-Chinese mother, Williams was taught initially by his father. At the age of twelve he went to Italy to study under "The Maestro," Andrés Segovia. Later, he attended the Royal College of Music in London, studying piano because the school did not have a guitar department at the time. Upon graduation, he was offered the opportunity to create such a department. He seized the opportunity and ran it for the first two years. Williams has maintained links with the College (and with the Northern College in Manchester) ever since.
Williams is best known as a classical guitarist, but has explored many different musical traditions. He has collaborated with Julian Bream and Paco Peña and was a member of the fusion group Sky. He is also a composer and arranger.
Williams has commissioned guitar concertos from composers such as Stephen Dodgson, André Previn, Patrick Gowers, Richard Harvey, and Steve Gray. He has also worked with composers from his native Australia, including Phillip Houghton, Peter Sculthorpe, Ross Edwards (composer), and Nigel Westlake, to produce guitar works that capture the spirit of his homeland.
He enjoyed a worldwide hit single with his recording of Cavatina by Stanley Myers, used as the theme tune to the Oscar-winning film The Deer Hunter (1979). The piece had originally been written for piano, for another film ten years earlier, The Walking Stick (1970) but re-written for guitar and expanded by Myers at Williams' invitation. In 1973, Cleo Laine wrote lyrics and recorded the song "He Was Beautiful" accompanied by John Williams. A year later, it was a top-five UK hit single for Iris Williams (no relation).
At the invitation of producer Martin Lewis he created a highly acclaimed classical-rock fusion duet with celebrated rock guitarist Pete Townshend of Townshend's anthemic "Won't Get Fooled Again" for the 1979 Amnesty International benefit show The Secret Policeman's Ball. The duet was featured on the resulting album and the film version of the show – bringing Williams to the broader attention of the rock audience.
The relationship with Lewis led to Williams' classical-rock fusion band Sky being invited to give the first-ever rock concert to be held at Westminster Abbey – a benefit concert for Amnesty that Lewis produced in February 1981.
He is visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London.
Williams and his artist wife Kathy Panama reside in London and Australia.
3) John Williams
John Williams is internationally regarded as one of the foremost players of Irish music today. With five All-Ireland titles to his credit, John is the only American-born competitor ever to win first place in the "senior concertina" category. His additional talents on flute, button accordion, bodhran, and piano distinguish him as a much sought after multi-instrumentalist in the acoustic scene around the world.
Born and raised on the Southwest Side of Chicago, John spent his summers during college on the Southwest coast of Ireland in his father’s village of Doolin, Co. Clare. Like Chicago, Doolin became a major musical crossroads for John and countless other local and international musicians to meet and exchange music. Gigging every night in the pubs of Doolin and Lisdoonvarna soon led to performances in Galway, Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Paris, Britanny, Zurich, and New York City (bio http://www.johnwilliamsmusic.com/bio.htm).
3) John Williams
A blues/jazz guitarist in Seattle, Washington, whose music is available at Magnatune.com (bio http://magnatune.com/artists/john_williams).
3) John Knowles Williams
An experimental/indie musician. Music is available at sweetnuthin.letsneverdie.net/Music/My_Recordings/ or www.myspace.com/JohnKWilliams.
1) John Towner Williams (… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least five artists with this name;
1) John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history, including those of the Star Wars series, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, the first two Home Alone films, Hook, the first two Jurassic Park films, Schindler's List, and the first three Harry Potter films.
Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but three of his feature films. Other works by Williams include theme music for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, "The Mission" theme used by NBC News and Seven News in Australia, the television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, and the incidental music for the first season of Gilligan's Island. Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. He served as the Boston Pops's principal conductor from 1980 to 1993, and is currently the orchestra's laureate conductor.
Williams has won 24 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With 51 Academy Award nominations, Williams is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. In 2005, the American Film Institute selected Williams's score to 1977's Star Wars as the greatest American film score of all time. The soundtrack to Star Wars was additionally preserved by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016. Williams composed the score for eight of the top 20 highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office (adjusted for inflation).
John Towner Williams was born on February 8, 1932 in Floral Park, New York, to Esther (née Towner) and Johnny Williams, a jazz percussionist who played with the Raymond Scott Quintet. Williams has said of his lineage, "My father was a Maine man—we were very close. My mother was from Boston. My father's parents ran a department store in Bangor, Maine, and my mother's father was a cabinetmaker. [...] People with those roots are not inclined to be lazy."
Williams married Barbara Ruick, an American actress and singer, in 1956. Together they had three children: Jennifer (b. 1956), Mark Towner Williams (b. 1958), and Joseph (b. 1960), who is the lead singer of Toto. The two remained married until her death in 1974. In 1980, Williams married Samantha Winslow, a photographer.
2) John Christopher Williams is a classical guitar player.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, on 24 April 1941, to an English father (Len Williams) and an Australian-Chinese mother, Williams was taught initially by his father. At the age of twelve he went to Italy to study under "The Maestro," Andrés Segovia. Later, he attended the Royal College of Music in London, studying piano because the school did not have a guitar department at the time. Upon graduation, he was offered the opportunity to create such a department. He seized the opportunity and ran it for the first two years. Williams has maintained links with the College (and with the Northern College in Manchester) ever since.
Williams is best known as a classical guitarist, but has explored many different musical traditions. He has collaborated with Julian Bream and Paco Peña and was a member of the fusion group Sky. He is also a composer and arranger.
Williams has commissioned guitar concertos from composers such as Stephen Dodgson, André Previn, Patrick Gowers, Richard Harvey, and Steve Gray. He has also worked with composers from his native Australia, including Phillip Houghton, Peter Sculthorpe, Ross Edwards (composer), and Nigel Westlake, to produce guitar works that capture the spirit of his homeland.
He enjoyed a worldwide hit single with his recording of Cavatina by Stanley Myers, used as the theme tune to the Oscar-winning film The Deer Hunter (1979). The piece had originally been written for piano, for another film ten years earlier, The Walking Stick (1970) but re-written for guitar and expanded by Myers at Williams' invitation. In 1973, Cleo Laine wrote lyrics and recorded the song "He Was Beautiful" accompanied by John Williams. A year later, it was a top-five UK hit single for Iris Williams (no relation).
At the invitation of producer Martin Lewis he created a highly acclaimed classical-rock fusion duet with celebrated rock guitarist Pete Townshend of Townshend's anthemic "Won't Get Fooled Again" for the 1979 Amnesty International benefit show The Secret Policeman's Ball. The duet was featured on the resulting album and the film version of the show – bringing Williams to the broader attention of the rock audience.
The relationship with Lewis led to Williams' classical-rock fusion band Sky being invited to give the first-ever rock concert to be held at Westminster Abbey – a benefit concert for Amnesty that Lewis produced in February 1981.
He is visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London.
Williams and his artist wife Kathy Panama reside in London and Australia.
3) John Williams
John Williams is internationally regarded as one of the foremost players of Irish music today. With five All-Ireland titles to his credit, John is the only American-born competitor ever to win first place in the "senior concertina" category. His additional talents on flute, button accordion, bodhran, and piano distinguish him as a much sought after multi-instrumentalist in the acoustic scene around the world.
Born and raised on the Southwest Side of Chicago, John spent his summers during college on the Southwest coast of Ireland in his father’s village of Doolin, Co. Clare. Like Chicago, Doolin became a major musical crossroads for John and countless other local and international musicians to meet and exchange music. Gigging every night in the pubs of Doolin and Lisdoonvarna soon led to performances in Galway, Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Paris, Britanny, Zurich, and New York City (bio http://www.johnwilliamsmusic.com/bio.htm).
3) John Williams
A blues/jazz guitarist in Seattle, Washington, whose music is available at Magnatune.com (bio http://magnatune.com/artists/john_williams).
3) John Knowles Williams
An experimental/indie musician. Music is available at sweetnuthin.letsneverdie.net/Music/My_Recordings/ or www.myspace.com/JohnKWilliams.
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John Williams Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by John Williams:
'When You're Alone' When you're all alone Far away from home There's a gift the…
A Foggy Day I was a stranger in the city Out of town were…
A Fool in Love Falling in love with love is falling for make-believe Fallin…
Again When the grip of hell Seems too much to bear God you…
Always and Always I close my eyes And there in the shadows I see…
Am I Beautiful? I am a winner and not a loser Born to and…
Anakin's Dark Deeds Angry, torn apart and taken out of council, A temperamen…
As The Water... Dead on the water My car Cannot reach speed My eyes are clos…
Between The Devil And the Deep Blue Sea I don't want you, but I'd hate to lose you You've…
Boomerang Love Hole in the wind behind the island Big blue hole in…
Cantina Band #2 I stayed in last night I wasn't feeling all right…
Carol Of The Bells Home Alone Soundtrack album version: Hark! how the b…
Christmas at Hogwarts Merry Christmas, merry Christmas Ring the Hogwarts bell Me…
Christmas Star Distant stars, at home up in the heavens Wonder what they…
Come Fly With Me Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away If you…
Cowboy Man She wore glass slippers She held her head up high She had…
Dear To My Heart The night is like a lovely tune Beware my foolish heart How…
Double Trouble Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bub…
Duel of the Fates from Star Wars Episode 1 Kor-ah, Mah-tah, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah.…
Embraceable You Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you Embrace me, you irrepl…
End Credits When the blood dries in my veins and my Heart feels…
Episode I Kor-ah, Mah-tah, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah.…
Escape From Naboo Escape From The City Rolling around at the speed of sound, …
Escape From the City Escape From The City Rolling around at the speed of sound…
Escape from the Temple Escape From The City Rolling around at the speed of sound, …
Exsultate Justi Laudamus te, laudamus! We praise you, we give praise! Exsul…
Fight With TIE Fighters Your life is not worth a days purchase Malodorous flatulenc…
Finale & End Credits A journey to a star would not be very far As…
For Always I close my eyes And there in the shadows I see…
For Heaven's Sake Oh every time it rains It rains pennies from heaven Don't yo…
Freedom How delicious is the winning of her kiss Bind her love…
get happy Pack up your troubles and just get happy Ya better…
Goin' to St. Louis I hate to see that evening sun go down I hate…
Good Morning Blues Good morning heartache, you old gloomy sight Good morning he…
Green Leaves of Summer A time to be reapin', a time to be sowin'. The…
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Have yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be lig…
He Was Beautiful He was beautiful, beautiful to my eyes, From the moment I…
Here They Come Here you come again, just when I've begun to get myself…
Home Alone Main Title Candles in the window Shadows painting the ceiling Gazing at…
I Can't Get Started I've flown around the world in a plane I've settled…
If I Were a Rich Man "Dear God, you made many, many poor people. I realize, of…
In A Little Spanish Town Evenings are crowded with memories Thrilling me again Like t…
In the Still of the Night In the still of the night As I gaze out of…
Jedi Rocks Joh Yowza, "Koo nee tang, na' na' na', ah lawah.…
Laura You know the feeling of something half remembered Of somethi…
Like Someone In Love Lately, I find myself out gazing at stars, Hearing guitars…
Look Down Lord Look down, Lord, look down This time I'm comin' home It's la…
Love Is Here to Stay It's very clear, our love is here to stay Not for…
Main Theme Start spreading the news I'm leaving today I want to be a…
Main Title / Rebel Blockade Runner I'm glad you're home Now did you really miss me? I guess…
Main Title from Home Alone Candles in the window Shadows painting the ceiling Gazing …
Main Title from Home Alone (Somewhere In My Memory) Candles in the window, shadows painting the ceiling, gazing …
Main Title from Superman Candles in the window Shadows painting the ceiling Gazing …
Main Title/Rebel Blockade Runner I'm glad you're home Now did you really miss me? I guess…
Matchmaker Tzeitel you're the oldest, Yente has to make a match…
Medley You know I ain't crazy 'bout nothing But money, women, and…
Moon River Moon river, wider than a mile I'm crossing you in style…
Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany's Moon river, wider than a mile I'm crossing you in style…
My Girl I've got sunshine on a cloudy day When it's cold outside…
My Happy Time He lied, he cheated till he broke your heart And you…
One Love How can I hope to make you understand Why I do What…
Over the Rainbow Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There's a land that…
Pirates! Party Pirate birthday party Pirate birthday party Pirate bir…
Prologue from JFK A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But in…
Sabbath Prayer May the Lord protect and defend you. May He always shield…
Satin Doll Cigarette holder which wigs me Over her shoulder she digs me…
Singin' In The Rain I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain What…
Sleigh Ride Just hear those sleigh bells jingle-ing, ring-ting tingle-in…
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes They asked me how I knew My true love was true I…
Someday My Prince Will Come Somewhere waiting for me There is someone I'm longing to see…
Someone Like You Lately, I find myself out gazing at stars, Hearing guitars…
Somewhere in My Memory Candles in the window Shadows painting the ceiling Gazing at…
Sophisticated Lady Sophisticated lady tryin' to change my ways Just because you…
Spring Is Here Spring is here! Why doesn't my heart go dancing? Spring is…
Star of Bethlehem Star of Bethlehem shining bright Bathing the world in heav'…
Star Wars Episode I Kor-ah, Mah-tah, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah.…
stormy weather Don′t know why There's no sun up in the sky Stormy weather S…
Sunny Side of the Tree Walked with no one and talked with no one And I…
Suo Gan Huna blentyn, ar fy mynwes, Clyd a chynnes ydyw hon; Breichi…
that old black magic Old black magic has me in its spell Old black magic…
The Christmas Song Doo doo Doop doop, doop doo doop Doo doo Doop doop, doop doo…
The Look Of Love The look of love Is in your eyes The look your heart Can't…
The Song Is You I hear music when I look at you, A beautiful theme…
The Trolley Song "Clang, clang, clang" went the trolley "Ding, ding, ding" we…
the way we were Memories light the corners of my mind Misty water-colored me…
The Wizard of Oz Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There's a land that…
Tie Fighter Attack Your life is not worth a days purchase Malodorous flatulenc…
Tink Grows Up We wanna be like Peter Pan We don't wanna grow up Wanna…
To Life To our prosperity, to good health and happiness! And most im…
Water! Dead on the water My car Cannot reach speed My eyes are clos…
We Don We wanna be like Peter Pan We don't wanna grow up Wanna…
We Don't Want to Grow Up We wanna be like Peter Pan We don't wanna grow up Wanna…
We're off to See the Wizard Over the Rainbow Follow the yellow brick road, Follow the yellow brick road, …
When You When you're all alone Far away from home There's a gift the…
While We're Young Out in the night Lovers hold hands as they stake out…
White Christmas Doo doo Doop doop, doop doo doop Doo doo Doop doop, doop doo…
With a Song in My Heart With a song in my heart, I behold your adorable…
Yentl: Papa Can You Hear Me? Santa Clause (can you hear me) Santa Clause can you hear…
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