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Paul Williams

1940 - Today

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Paul Hamilton Williams Jr. (born September 19, 1940) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and actor. He is known for writing and co-writing popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s, including Three Dog Night's "An Old Fashioned Love Song" and "Out in the Country", Helen Reddy's "You and Me Against the World", Biff Rose's "Fill Your Heart", and the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays". He also wrote "Cried Like a Baby" for teen idol Bobby Sherman. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Williams is the 1,289th most popular composer (down from 1,270th in 2019), the 9,492nd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,515th in 2019) and the 95th most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Paul Williams ranks 1,289 out of 1,451. Before him are Andrey Petrov, Nicholas Hooper, Hiroyuki Sawano, Lowell Mason, Thomas Tomkins, and Shivkumar Sharma. After him are Necil Kazım Akses, Afrasiyab Badalbeyli, Shirley Walker, Pascal Dusapin, Samuel Arnold, and Peter Schickele.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Paul Williams ranks 498. Before him are Thomas Köhler, Chuck Mangione, Niilo Halonen, Erik Hartsuiker, Aristides Royo, and Hasan Muratović. After him are Naohiro Ikeda, Sapardi Djoko Damono, Robert Budzynski, Mariette Hartley, Gary Kurtz, and Vyacheslav Starshinov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Williams ranks 9,494 out of 20,380. Before him are David Halberstam (1934), Bob Brookmeyer (1929), Joel Chandler Harris (1848), Tom Harrell (1946), Jacob Abbott (1803), and Joe F. Edwards Jr. (1958). After him are Johnny Rivers (1942), Lil Hardin Armstrong (1898), Patti Austin (1950), Garrett Hedlund (1984), JJ Feild (1978), and Julie Gibson (1913).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Paul Williams ranks 95. Before him are Florence Price (1887), Vincent Youmans (1898), Pauline Oliveros (1932), Conlon Nancarrow (1912), Jonathan Larson (1960), and Lowell Mason (1792). After him are Shirley Walker (1945), Peter Schickele (1935), Paul Creston (1906), John Kander (1927), Horatio Parker (1863), and David Raksin (1912).

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