Lionel Bart - wikipedia Lionel Bart This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. ( May 2012 ) Lionel Bart Bart in 1973, by Allan Warren Lionel Begleiter ( 1930 - 08 - 01 ) 1 August 1930 Stepney, London, England 3 April 1999 ( 1999 - 04 - 03 ) ( aged 68 ) Hammersmith, London, England Occupation Composer Years active 1952 -- 1999 Lionel Bart ( 1 August 1930 -- 3 April 1999 ) was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music and lyrics for Oliver ! Contents 1 Early life 2 Songwriting 3 Musical theatre 4 West End theatrical credits 5 Work on Broadway 6 See also 7 Notes and references 8 External links Early life He was born Lionel Begleiter, the youngest of seven surviving children of Galician Jews, Yetta ( née Darumstundler ) and Morris Begleiter, a master tailor. He grew up in Stepney ; his father worked in the area as a tailor in a garden shed. The family had escaped the deadly pogroms against Jews by Ukrainian cossacks in Galicia, which was then part of the Austrian Empire. Lionel Begleiter changed his surname to Bart, said to be derived from when he passed by St Bartholomew 's Hospital on the top deck of a bus, after he had completed his National Service with the Royal Air Force. A more likely derivation of Bart is from the silk - screen printing company he founded with John Gorman, G and B Arts. As a young man he was an accomplished painter. When Bart was aged six, a teacher told his parents that he was a musical genius. His parents gave him an old violin, but he did not apply himself and the lessons stopped. At the age of 14 he obtained a Junior Art Scholarship to Saint Martin 's School of Art. One Friday afternoon he was suspended for `` mischievousness '' along with another student, John Groom, for making a noise with the rest of the class, involving set squares and other paraphernalia. On the following Monday, he returned to the School with a long explanation of his peripheral involvement in the disturbance, and was reinstated. After St Martin 's he gave up his ambition to be a painter, and took jobs in silk - screen printing works and commercial art studios. He never learned to read or write musical notation. Songwriting Lionel Bart in 1973 He started his songwriting career in amateur theatre, first at The International Youth Centre in 1952 where he and a friend wrote a revue together called IYC Revue 52. The following year the pair auditioned for a production of the Leonard Irwin play The Wages of Eve at London 's Unity Theatre. Shortly afterward Bart began composing songs for Unity Theatre productions, contributing material ( including the title song ) to its 1953 revue Turn It Up, and songs for its 1953 pantomime, an agitprop version of Cinderella. While at the Unity he was talent - spotted by Joan Littlewood, and so joined Theatre Workshop. He also wrote comedy songs for the Sunday lunchtime BBC radio programme The Billy Cotton Band Show. He first gained widespread recognition through his pop songwriting, penning numerous hits for the stable of young male singers promoted by artist manager and music publisher Larry Parnes. Bart 's pop output in this period includes the hits `` Living Doll '' ( written for Cliff Richard ) and `` Rock with the Cavemen '', `` Handful of Songs '', `` Butterfingers '' and `` Little White Bull '' ( for Tommy Steele ). During this period, Steele and Mike Pratt were his songwriting partners. He won three Ivor Novello Awards in 1957, a further four in 1958, and two in 1960. He wrote the theme song for the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love. His other hits include : `` Do You Mind ? '' ( recorded by both Anthony Newley and Andy Williams ), `` Big Time '' ( a 1961 cover by Jack Jones of his `` Fings Ai n't Wot They Used T'Be '' show tune ), `` Easy Going Me '' ( Adam Faith ) and `` Always You And Me '' ( with Russ Conway ). Bart was also responsible for the discovery of two of Parnes ' biggest stars. It was on his recommendation that Parnes went to see singer Tommy Hicks, whom he signed and renamed Tommy Steele, and Bart also suggested that Parnes see singer Reg Smith, who was then performing at the Condor Club. Although Parnes missed his performance, he went round to Smith 's house and signed him up on the basis of Bart 's recommendation. Smith went on to score a number of UK hits under his new stage name Marty Wilde. Twenty - seven years after it became a number one hit for Cliff Richard, `` Living Doll '' was re-recorded by The Young Ones and Richard for Comic Relief, and spent another three weeks at number one. Musical Theatre This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( November 2015 ) Bart 's first professional musical was 1959 's Lock Up Your Daughters, based on the 18th - century play Rape upon Rape by Henry Fielding. Following that, Fings Ai n't Wot They Used T'Be produced by Joan Littlewood 's Theatre Workshop, was notable for encouraging the use of authentic Cockney accents on the London stage. Oliver ! ( 1960 ), based on Dickens 's Oliver Twist, was a huge hit from the beginning and became the first modern British musical to be transferred successfully to Broadway. It has sustained its popularity to the present day, and for many years was the standard musical performed by schools in the UK. The original stage production, which starred Ron Moody and Georgia Brown, contained such song hits as `` As Long As He Needs Me '' and `` Consider Yourself '' ; it is also notable for featuring Australian satirist Barry Humphries in his first major stage role as Mr Sowerberry, and future rock stars Steve Marriott ( later the lead singer of the Small Faces and Humble Pie ), Davy Jones ( pre-Monkees ) and Phil Collins ( of Genesis fame ) as The Artful Dodger. The music for Oliver ! was transcribed by Eric Rogers, who wrote and composed 21 scores for the Carry On films. Bart hummed the melodies and Rogers wrote the notes on his behalf as Bart could not read or write music. In 1968 Oliver ! was made into a film starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed and Shani Wallis that won several Oscars, including best film. It is estimated that around this time Bart was earning 16 pounds a minute from Oliver !. Bart 's next two musicals, Blitz ! ( 1962 ) ( from which came the song `` Far Away '', a hit for Shirley Bassey ) and Maggie May ( 1964 ) had respectable West End runs ( Blitz !, at the time London 's most expensive musical ever, had a run of 568 performances ), but Twang ! ( 1965 ), a musical based on the Robin Hood legend, was a flop and La Strada ( 1969 ), which opened on Broadway in New York City, closed after only one performance. By this time Bart was taking LSD and other drugs and was drinking heavily, and this may have affected both his work and his business judgement. He rashly used his personal finances to try to rescue his last two productions, selling his past and future rights to his work, including Oliver ! which he sold to the entertainer Max Bygraves for £ 350 ( Bygraves later sold them on for £ 250,000 ) to realise capital to finance the shows ; Bart himself later estimated that this action lost him over £ 1 million. By 1972, Bart was bankrupt with debts of £ 73,000. A twenty - year period of depression and alcoholism ensued. He eventually stopped drinking, although the years of substance abuse seriously damaged his health, leaving him with diabetes and impaired liver function. In May 1977, an autobiographical musical called Lionel ! opened in the West End at the New London Theatre. It was loosely based on Bart 's early life as a child prodigy. Bart added some new songs for the show and expectations were high. The cast included Clarke Peters, Marion Montgomery and Adrienne Posta. The role of Lionel was shared by a young Todd Carty and theatre unknown Chris Nieto. The show closed after six weeks, losing £ 250,000. Bart continued writing songs and themes for films, but his only real success in his later years was `` Happy Endings '', a 30 - second jingle for a 1989 Abbey National advertising campaign, which featured Bart playing the piano and singing to children. He received a special Ivor Novello Award for life achievement in 1986. Cameron Mackintosh, who owned half the rights to Oliver !, revived the musical at the London Palladium in 1994 in a version rewritten by Lionel Bart himself. Mackintosh gave Bart a share of the production royalties. At the peak of his career, Bart was romantically linked in the media with singers Judy Garland and Alma Cogan, though he was in fact gay. His sexuality was known to friends and colleagues but he did not `` come out '' until a few years before his death. Bart died at the Hammersmith Hospital, 150 DuCane Road, Shepherd 's Bush, West London on 3 April 1999, of liver cancer. His funeral was held at Golders Green Crematorium. A musical play based on Bart 's life and using his songs, It 's a Fine Life, was staged in 2006 at the Queen 's Theatre, Hornchurch. West End theatrical credits Lock Up Your Daughters ( 1959 ) -- lyricist Fings Ai n't Wot They Used T'Be ( 1959 ) -- composer, lyricist Oliver ! ( 1960 ) -- composer, lyricist, writer Blitz ! ( 1962 ) -- composer, lyricist, writer Maggie May ( 1964 ) -- composer, lyricist Twang ! ! ( 1965 ) -- composer, lyricist La Strada ( 1969 ) -- co-composer, co-lyricist Lionel ! ( 1977 ) -- composer, lyricist Work on Broadway Oliver ! ( 1963 ) -- musical -- composer, lyricist, and bookwriter -- Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist, Tony nominations for Best Musical and Best Author of a Musical A return engagement of the original production played in 1965, and a revival in 1984. La Strada ( 1969 ) -- musical -- composer and lyricist See also Biography portal Category : Songs written by Lionel Bart Notes and references Jump up ^ http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fe1bdd1 Jump up ^ http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/841250/ Jump up ^ `` Archived copy ''. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 2015 - 01 - 30. Jump up ^ By Stafford, David. and Stafford, Caroline. Fings Ai n't Wot They Used T ' Be : The Lionel Bart Story at Google Books ^ Jump up to : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084985/Lionel-Barts-greatest-success-Oliver-destroyed-From-cocaine-cheap-vodka.html Jump up ^ This is detailed mainly in David Roper 's book, and some of it in Colin Chambers ' ^ Jump up to : `` Archived copy ''. Archived from the original on 29 June 2004. Retrieved 2009 - 06 - 10. Jump up ^ `` Larry Parnes ''. Rockabilly.nl. Retrieved 19 February 2013. Jump up ^ Fings Ai n't Wot They Used T'Be, The Lionel Bart Story, by David and Caroline Stafford, Omnibus Press, 2011. Jump up ^ `` Small Faces Story Part 1 - Room for Ravers ''. Makingtime.co.uk. Retrieved 2 May 2012. Jump up ^ `` Eric Rogers Scores Themes Music from the classic movies ''. British Cinema Greats. Retrieved 2012 - 05 - 02. Jump up ^ Nosheen Iqbal ( 19 January 2009 ). `` Consider yourself an expert on Oliver ! 's Lionel Bart ? ''. The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2013 - 02 - 19. Jump up ^ `` Broadway Buzz Videos, Interviews, Photos, News and Tickets ''. Broadway.com. Retrieved 19 February 2013. ^ Jump up to : `` Tom Vallance : Lionel Bart obituary, The Independent, 5 April 1999 ''. The Independent. Retrieved 2014 - 09 - 22. Jump up ^ `` Max Bygraves -- Obituaries ''. The Stage. Retrieved 2013 - 02 - 19. Jump up ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7qV9EEpgao Jump up ^ http://www.skidmore.edu/~gthompso/britrock/60brchro/60brch00-34.html Jump up ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1120183/The-genius-destroyed-Oliver-The-success-Lionel-Barts-masterpiece-sent-spiral-drug-fuelled-hedonism.html Jump up ^ https://www.musicroom.com/product-detail/product1027859/variant1027859/the-lionel-bart-story-fings-aint-wot-they-used-t-be/ Jump up ^ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6304737 Jump up ^ `` Archived copy ''. Archived from the original on 1 September 2006. Retrieved 2006 - 08 - 16. Bart ! The Unauthorized Life & Times, Ins and Outs, Ups and Downs of Lionel Bart by David Roper ISBN 1 - 85793 - 330 - 3 Samantha Ellis, `` Lionel Bart 's Oliver ! '', June 1960 The Guardian, 18 June 2003. Michael Coveney, Lionel Bart : Appetite for destruction, The Independent, 31 August 2006. Lionel Begleiter ( Bart ), Icons Gallery, circa-club.com. Lionel Bart, a composer of songs and musicals, The Queens Theatre ( Hornchurch ). Gerald Mahlowe, Songwriter Profile Lionel Bart, Songwriter magazine, International Songwriters Association ( undated interview some time after 1985 ) The Story of Unity Theatre, by Colin Chambers, ISBN 0 - 85315 - 587 - 9 Fings Ai n't Wot They Used T'Be -- The Lionel Bart Story, by David and Caroline Stafford, Omnibus Press, 2011, ISBN 978 - 1 - 84938 - 661 - 6 External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lionel Bart. Lionel Bart on IMDb Lionel Bart at the Internet Broadway Database Lionel Bart at the British Film Institute 's Screenonline Biographical info on Mike Pratt, songwriting partner, along with Tommy Steele Tony Award for Best Original Score ( 1947 -- 1975 ) Street Scene by Kurt Weill ( 1947 ) Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter ( 1949 ) South Pacific by Richard Rodgers ( 1950 ) Call Me Madam by Irving Berlin ( 1951 ) No Strings by Richard Rodgers ( 1962 ) Oliver ! by Lionel Bart ( 1963 ) Hello, Dolly ! by Jerry Herman ( 1964 ) Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick ( 1965 ) Man of La Mancha by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion ( 1966 ) Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb ( 1967 ) Hallelujah, Baby ! by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green ( 1968 ) Company by Stephen Sondheim ( 1971 ) Follies by Stephen Sondheim ( 1972 ) A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim ( 1973 ) Gigi by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner ( 1974 ) The Wiz by Charlie Smalls ( 1975 ) Complete list ( 1947 -- 1975 ) ( 1976 -- 2000 ) ( 2001 -- 2025 ) VIAF : 17406760 LCCN : no92004319 ISNI : 0000 0000 8096 9217 GND : 119334976 SUDOC : 079895859 BNF : cb13891197j ( data ) MusicBrainz : d679f260 - 95f6 - 4b4e - 8ec0 - e3c64065e493 BNE : XX858660 SNAC : w6d02tgh Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lionel_Bart&oldid=824013630 '' Categories : 1930 births 1999 deaths Alumni of Saint Martin 's School of Art Deaths from cancer in England Deram Records artists English musical theatre composers English male composers English musical theatre lyricists English composers English Jews English songwriters Gay musicians Ivor Novello Award winners Jewish composers Jewish songwriters LGBT composers LGBT songwriters LGBT people from England People from Stepney Golders Green Crematorium 20th - century classical musicians 20th - century English musicians Hidden categories : All articles with dead external links Articles with dead external links from November 2016 Articles with permanently dead external links EngvarB from August 2014 Use dmy dates from August 2014 Articles lacking in - text citations from May 2012 All articles lacking in - text citations Articles with hCards All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from December 2015 Articles needing additional references from November 2015 All articles needing additional references Articles with unsourced statements from November 2015 All articles with vague or ambiguous time Vague or ambiguous time from September 2015 Articles with IBDb links Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Wikiquote Català Deutsch Français Italiano Edit links This page was last edited on 4 February 2018, at 20 : 23. 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Question: who wrote the music and lyrics for oliver
Answer: Lionel Bart