Jack Feldman (songwriter)

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Jack Feldman
Origin	American
Occupation(s)	Songwriter, Lyricist

Jack Feldman is an American lyricist who has written songs for television, film, and Broadway. He has worked on many Disney movies ranging from Oliver & Company to The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, collaborating with Alan Menken on the songs for Newsies.^[1] He wrote the lyrics for Barry Manilow's Grammy Award–winning song "Copacabana" and won a Tony along with Alan Menken for the stage musical version of Newsies.^[2] Feldman grew up on Long Island.

Career[edit]

Jack Feldman wrote the lyrics in the following works.

Film[edit]

Oliver & Company (song: "Perfect Isn't Easy")
Newsies
Home Alone 2 (song: "My Christmas Tree")
Thumbelina
A Goofy Movie
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
102 Dalmatians (song: "Cruella De Vil 2000")

Theatre[edit]

Newsies

Television[edit]

The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss
The Little Mermaid (songs: "You Got to Be You", "Just a Little Love")

Awards and nominations[edit]

Award	Year	Category	Nominee	Result
13th Golden Raspberry Awards	1993	Worst Original Song	for: Newsies (1992) Shared with: Alan Menken (music) For the song "High Times, Hard Times"	Won
15th Golden Raspberry Awards	1995	Worst Original Song	for: Thumbelina (1994) Shared with: Barry Manilow (music) and Bruce Sussman (lyrics) For the song "Marry The Mole!"	Won
Annie Awards	1999	Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production	for: The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998) Shared with: Tom Snow (composer) and Marty Panzer (lyricist) For the song "We Are One"	Nominated
Tony Awards	2012	Best Original Score (Music And/Or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Newsies	Won

References[edit]

^ "Jack Feldman Biography". Retrieved 28 March 2013.
^ "Tony 2012 Winners". Retrieved 28 March 2013.

External links[edit]

Jack Feldman at the Internet Broadway Database
Jack Feldman at IMDb
Jack Feldman at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

Awards for Jack Feldman

v t e Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song
1980s	"The Man with Bogart's Face" – Music by George Duning; Lyrics by Andrew Fenady (1980) "Baby Talk" – Music by David Shire; Lyrics by Dave Frishberg (1981) "Pumpin' and Blowin'" – Music and Lyrics by Terry Britten, B. A. Robertson, and Sue Shifrin (1982) "The Way You Do It" – Music and Lyrics by Jeff Harrington and Jeff Pennig (1983) "Drinkenstein" – Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton (1984) "Peace in Our Life" – Music by Frank Stallone, Peter Schless, and Jerry Goldsmith; Lyrics by Frank Stallone (1985) "Love or Money" – Music and Lyrics by Prince and the Revolution (1986) "I Want Your Sex" – Music and Lyrics by George Michael (1987) "Jack Fresh" – Music and Lyrics by Full Force (1988) "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter" – Music and Lyrics by Bruce Dickinson (1989)
1990s	"He's Comin' Back (The Devil)" – Music and Lyrics by Chris LeVrar (1990) "Addams Groove" – Music by MC Hammer; Lyrics Felton C. Pilate II (1991) "High Times, Hard Times" – Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Jack Feldman (1992) "Addams Family Whoomp!" – Music and Lyrics by Ralph Sall, Steve Gibson, and Cecil Glenn (1993) "Marry the Mole" – Music by Barry Manilow; Lyrics by Jack Feldman and Bruce Sussman (1994) "Walk into the Wind" – Music by David Stewart; Lyrics by Terry Hall (1995) "(Pussy Pussy Pussy) Whose Kitty Cat Are You?" – Music and Lyrics by Marvin Montgomery (1996) The entire song score from The Postman – Music and Lyrics by Jeffrey Barr, Glenn Burke, John Coinman, Joe Flood, Blair Forward, Maria Machado, and Jono Manson (1997) "I Wanna Be Mike Ovitz!" – Music and Lyrics by Joe Eszterhas and Gary G-Wiz (1998) "Wild Wild West" – Music and Lyrics by Stevie Wonder, Kool Moe Dee, and Will Smith (1999)
2000s	No Award (2000) No Award (2001) "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" – Music and Lyrics by Max Martin, Rami Yacoub, and Dido (2002)

v t e 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)
1976–2000	A Chorus Line by Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban (1976) Annie by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin (1977) On the Twentieth Century by Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green (1978) Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim (1979) Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (1980) Woman of the Year by John Kander and Fred Ebb (1981) Nine by Maury Yeston (1982) Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber and T. S. Eliot (1983) La Cage aux Folles by Jerry Herman (1984) Big River by Roger Miller (1985) The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes (1986) Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer, and Alain Boublil (1987) Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim (1988) No Award (1989) City of Angels by Cy Coleman and David Zippel (1990) The Will Rogers Follies by Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green (1991) Falsettos by William Finn (1992) Kiss of the Spider Woman by John Kander and Fred Ebb / The Who's Tommy by Pete Townshend (1993) Passion by Stephen Sondheim (1994) Sunset Boulevard by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black, and Christopher Hampton (1995) Rent by Jonathan Larson (1996) Titanic by Maury Yeston (1997) Ragtime by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (1998) Parade by Jason Robert Brown (1999) Aida by Elton John and Tim Rice (2000)
2001–present	The Producers by Mel Brooks (2001) Urinetown by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis (2002) Hairspray by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (2003) Avenue Q by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (2004) The Light in the Piazza by Adam Guettel (2005) The Drowsy Chaperone by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison (2006) Spring Awakening by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater (2007) In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda (2008) Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (2009) Memphis by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro (2010) The Book of Mormon by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone (2011) Newsies by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman (2012) Kinky Boots by Cyndi Lauper (2013) The Bridges of Madison County by Jason Robert Brown (2014) Fun Home by Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron (2015) Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016) Dear Evan Hansen by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (2017) The Band's Visit by David Yazbek (2018) Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell (2019) A Christmas Carol by Christopher Nightingale (2020/21) Six by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (2022) Kimberly Akimbo by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire (2023)