Lionel Bart
Lionel Bart
Top Songs
| 1 | Consider Yourself [Remastered 2016] | ||
| 2 | You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two [Remastered 2016] | ||
| 3 | I'd Do Anything [Remastered 2016] | ||
| 4 | As Long as He Needs Me (Reprise) [Remastered 2016] | ||
| 5 | Oom-Pah-Pah [Remastered] |
Albums
Nov 2022 • 12 songs
Mar 2020 • 4 songs
Oct 2009 • 22 songs
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Biography
Lyricist and composer Lionel Bart created the delightful '60s hit musical Oliver! and wrote the theme song for the 1963 James Bond movie From Russia With Love. Bart is credited with helping to revive the English musical.
Born Lionel Beglieter in 1932, the son of a Jewish tailor in London's East End, Bart had no formal musical education. Becoming a successful songwriter, he wrote hit songs for Tommy Steele and Anthony Newley. Bart's first musical, Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be, premiered in 1959 and ran for two years in London. Another musical, Lock up Your Daughters, opened...