Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arthur Hamilton, the Oscar-nominated songwriter best known for his smoky torch-song classic “Cry Me a River,” memorably recorded ...

Arthur Hamilton, an Oscar-nominated songwriter, has died at 98. Hamilton is best known for his 1950’s torch classic “Cry Me a River.” Artists such as Julie London and Ella Fitzgerald have covered the ...

Oscar-nominated songwriter Arthur Hamilton has died. He was 98. On June 3, the songwriter’s passing was announced by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers on X. “The ASCAP family ...

Arthur Hamilton, an Oscar-nominated songwriter who helped revive the torch singer genre in the 1950s with the smoldering “Cry Me a River” and whose “Sing a Rainbow” became a childhood staple even ...