They received four Grammy nominations for song of the year, for “Nice ‘N’ Easy” (a hit for Frank Sinatra), “The Summer Knows (Theme from ‘Summer of 42’)” (Peter Nero), “The Way We Were” (Streisand) and “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” (Streisand and Neil Diamond). They also won four Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.

Alan Bergman, the Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with his wife, Marilyn, for an enduring and loving partnership that produced such old-fashioned hits as “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?,” “It Might Be You” and the classic “The Way We Were,

Alan Bergman, the lyricist whose collaborations with his wife Marilyn were behind Oscar-winning songs and the TV themes like Good Times, died at 99.