Steve Tyrell worked on the Bacharach-David song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," which went on to win the 1969 Oscar for Best Original Song ("Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"). His contributions to the film industry include "Mystic Pizza", "That Thing You Do","The Five Heartbeats", "Father of the Bride", "The Brady Bunch Movie", and "Out of Sync". Steve also worked in television and did the music for "California Dreams", "The Heights", and "Frank's Place", among others. Tyrell's performance singing "The Way You Look Tonight" in "Father of the Bride", starring Steve Martin, pushed him center-stage as a vocalist, with live performances
Barbra Streisand and "For Pete's Sake" (1974) with Michael Sarrazin. One of her most famous roles during this period was in the drama "The Way We Were" (1973) with Robert Redford, for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress. She earned her second Academy Award for Best Original Song (with lyricist Paul Williams) for the song "Evergreen", from "A Star Is Born" in 1976, in which she also starred. Along with Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier and later Steve McQueen, Streisand formed First Artists Production Company in 1969 so actors could secure properties and develop movie projects for themselves. Streisand's