Al Kasha (b 22 January 1937) is a Brooklyn–born multi-talented composer, songwriter and arranger, as well as businessman. He has won two Oscars for Best Song, The Morning After from The Poseidon Adventure in 1972 and We May Never Love Like This Again from The Towering Inferno in 1974. He has also received two Tony nominations for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and the musical of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield, two Grammy nominations and an Emmy, as well as four Golden Globe nominations and a People's Choice award. January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... A map of New York City, highlighting Brooklyn. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... In popular music an arrangement is a setting of a piece of music, which may have been composed by the arranger or by someone else. ... A businessman (sometimes businesswoman, female; or businessperson, gender neutral) is a generic term for a wide range of people engaged in profit-oriented enterprises, generally the management of a company. ... The Academy Award for Best Song is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers. ... The Morning After was an Academy Award-winning song, first released in early 1973 (see 1973 in music). ... The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 action/adventure/disaster film based on a novel by Paul Gallico. ... See also: 1971 in music, other events of 1972, 1973 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 17 - Highway 51 South in Memphis, Tennessee is renamed Elvis Presley Blvd January 20 - Pink Floyd debuts Dark Side of the Moon during a performance at... The Towering Inferno is a 1974 disaster movie adapted by Stirling Silliphant from the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. ... See also: 1973 in music, other events of 1974, 1975 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // Events January - The Ramones form. ... Tony can mean any of the following: a slang word for Cocaine Tony Award a nickname for the male names Antoine, Antony, Antonio, Anthony, and Manraj. ... Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a musical film released in 1954. ... Charles Dickens was a prolific writer who was almost always working on a new instalment for a story and rarely missed a deadline. ... David Copperfield is a quasi-autobiographical novel by Charles Dickens. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... An Emmy Award. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...

External links

• Al Kasha's entry at IMDb
• Al Kasha's excellent website