Pop singer Meghan Trainor recorded a new version that was released in September for a 25th anniversary celebration of the show’s premiere.Willis won a Grammy Award for her contributions to the soundtrack of “Beverly Hills Cop” and was nominated for musical show album for “The Color Purple,” the latter also earning her a Tony nomination in 2006.“With all of her accolades, Allee Willis was most proud to be recognized for her extreme, over-the-top party-throwing at her famously kitschy Pink Streamline Moderne house known as ‘Willis Wonderland’ in Los Angeles,” her spokeswoman, Ellyn Solis, said in a statement.“I always had a music career, an art career, set designer, film and video, technology,”.Among her other songs that became hits were “Boogie Wonderland” for Earth, Wind & Fire with the Emotions, “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” by the Pet Shop Boys and “Lead Me On” by Maxine Nightingale.Willis is survived by her partner of 27 years, animator and producer Prudence Fenton.Get our revamped Envelope newsletter, sent twice a week, for exclusive awards season coverage, behind-the-scenes insights and columnist Glenn Whipp’s commentary.You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.Randy Lewis covered pop music for the Los Angeles Times from 1981 to 2020, working in that time as a reporter, music critic and editor for the Calendar section. Broken heartLoudly crying face What an EXTRAORDINARY contribution to the Music Industry and to the Arts she made! "Her catalogue is iconic, her songs are ageless.

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She died at the age of 72 as a result of cardiac arrest. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 ranking. What have we...what have we....What Have We Done To Deserve This?

The publisher has already confirmed it will partner with her estate on a documentary about Willis' life.Of the deal, Tina Fasbender, Willis' business manager and founder of Fasbender Financial, said: "In looking for a home that would understand, respect and creatively grow the visibility of Allee's astounding, multidisciplinary body of work, there was really only one choice. She was truly the Best! “I cry just thinking about it,” she said at the time.After studying journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she moved to New York and landed a job as a secretary at Columbia Records, working first as a copywriter before turning her attention to songwriting and performing.Her only album, “Childstar” in 1974, flopped commercially, but did catch the ear of Bonnie Raitt, who became the first artist to record one of her songs, “Got You On My Mind.” She subsequently became a songwriter at A&M Records, and after being introduced by a mutual friend to Earth, Wind and Fire bassist Verdine White, she met his brother, Maurice, and began collaborating with him as a writer, scoring her first hit with “September.”,Earlier this year, the Library of Congress added the song “September,” which Willis wrote with EWF co-founder Maurice White and guitarist Al McKay, to its.She liked to tell of her initial resistance to the nonsense syllabic refrain “ba-dee-yah” that White repeated at various points while they were working up the number.“I just said ‘What the [heck] does ‘ba-dee-yah’ mean?”.It went to No. She will be sorely missed.”.Allee Willis was a one-of-a-kind creative genius.