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, the Oscar-nominated songwriter best known for his smoky torch-song classic "Cry Me a River," memorably recorded by Julie London, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Cocker and many others, has died.

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 ...

Arthur Hamilton, a composer best known for the enduring torch song “Cry Me a River,” which has been recorded by hundreds of artists, died on May 20 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 98. His death was ...

Arthur Hamilton, best known for penning the classic hit Cry Me a River, has passed away at the age of 98. The Oscar-nominated songwriter’s death was announced earlier this week by ASCAP, and the ...

Arthur Hamilton, the Oscar-nominated songwriter best known for his smoky torch-song classic “Cry Me a River,” memorably recorded by Julie London, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Cocker and many others, has died.