Will Jennings
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Wilbur H. "Will" Jennings (born June 27, 1944) is an American songwriter, who is popularly known for "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton and "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion, the theme for the romantic disaster film Titanic.
He has been inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame and has won several awards including three Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards.
Life and education
Jennings was born in Kilgore, Texas. He attended school near Tyler, Texas in the Chapel Hill Independent School District. He graduated from Tyler Junior College and taught English at the college. In 1967, Jennings earned his B.A. from Stephen F. Austin State University, located in Nacogdoches, Texas. He then taught at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire for three years.
Career
Jennings has written for a number of writers, including Steve Winwood, Whitney Houston, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Joe Sample, Rodney Crowell, Mariah Carey, Jimmy Buffett, Barry Manilow, and Roy Orbison.
Jennings, Steve Winwood, produced a series of albums, including Arc of a Diver, Talking Back to the Night, and Back in the High Life, which included hits such as "Higher Love," "The Finer Things," and "Back in the High Life Again." Winwood also received the Outstanding Male Vocal Award for the first time in the year. Jennings and Winwood were nominated for the Song of the Year award for "Higher Love."
Jennings wrote "Street Life" (a world-wide hit for the Crusaders with singer Randy Crawford) and several songs from various Crusaders albums, including Joe Cocker ("I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today") and Bill Withers ("Soul Shadows").
Jennings and Sample also wrote the best part of three albums for B.B. In 1978, King Midnight Believer 1978, and Now is the Time of Our Times King.
For Barry Manilow's "Somewhere in the Night" and "Looks Like We Made It"; Dionne Warwick's "I'll Never Love This Way Again" were written.
"I Know Who You Are" by Deana Martin on her 2016 album Swing Street, she performed one of Jennings' "I Know Who You Are."
Jennings has worked on several songs for film, one of the most popular songs being "Up Where We Belong" for An Officer and a Gentleman, which received the Academy Award in America and the BAFTA (British Academy Award) in the United Kingdom and was a number one hit for Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes. Jennings wrote the world-wide number one for the film Titanic's "My Heart Will Go On" in 1997 with his collaborator James Horner. They were nominated for Best Song from a Motion Picture and the Academy Award for Best Song from a Motion Picture.
Jimmy Buffett's other projects include two albums co-written with Jimmy Buffett and Michael Utley, Riddles in the Sand, and The Last Mango in Paris. Jennings has produced several songs for Roy Orbison's King of Hearts album.
Jennings wrote hits with Rodney Crowell, including "Many a Long & Lonesome Highway," "What Kind of Love," and "Please Remember Me," Tim McGraw's number one country hit.
Jennings wrote "Tears in Heaven" with Eric Clapton, which was also named for best song from a film by the Ivor Novello Award.
Jennings wrote the lyrics for the central song in How The Grinch Stole Christmas, "Where Is Christmas?" coworking with James Horner and Mariah Carey. "This was sung by a character in the film and by Faith Hill at the end of the film." Horner and Jennings performed a song for the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind in 2002.
Sleepless, Peter Wolf's latest album, had positive reviews in 2002. Jennings and Wolf, who collaborated on Fool's Parade (1999) on Mercury Records, produced six songs on the album.
Jennings and Joe Sample, the Crusader's keyboard player, go back to 1978 and began writing the Midnight Believer album for B.B. The king and then wrote "Street Life" for the Crusaders album of the same name. In addition to another of Jennings' songs, "Up Where We Belong," Jennings and Sample wrote "One Day I'll Fly Away," which was originally performed by Crawford in the film Moulin Rouge! Nicole Kidman's film "One Day I'll Fly Away" was released in the United Kingdom as a single from the second soundtrack album to emerge from Moulin Rouge in March 2002.