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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arthur Hamilton in 2014 - Paul Redmond/WireImage Arthur Hamilton, who has died aged 98, was the songwriter behind the plaintive ...

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 ...

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 ...