Walter Marks Email & Phone Number

Walter Marks is a president at jonah music inc. at jonah music inc..

• President

  Jonah Music Inc.

  1970 - Present

  Walter Marks 130 West 57 St. NY NY 10019 212.582.8139 WMarksNYC@Gmail.comRep: Marsha Brooks, Tom Distler Brookslaw LLP 212.486.1400 Brookslaw@aol.comWalter Marks is probably best known for his song “I’ve Gotta be Me”, recorded by Sammy Davis, Michael Jackson, Tony Bennett, and many others. He has also written songs recorded by Barbra Streisand, The Temptations, Della Reese, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Steve Lawrence, Liza Minelli, and other artists.He wrote the songs for the Broadway musicals “Bajour” and “Golden Rainbow”, the book, music and lyrics for the off-Broadway musical “Body Shop”, the screenplay and songs for the motion picture “The Wild Party” (Merchant-Ivory Films - directed by James Ivory). He also wrote the off-Broadway comedy-mystery “The Butler Did It”. On television, he won an Emmy award for his music on the PBS Series “Getting On”, and wrote songs for the ABC series “That’s Life”, and the NBC Hallmark Hall of Fame production of “Pinocchio”.His musical “Langston in Harlem” will have its world premiere off-Broadway at Urban Stages Theater in April 2010. In this show, Mr. Marks has set the poetry of Langston Hughes to music, and co-written the book, which deals with the life and struggles of the poet in the period of the Harlem Renaissance. Walter Marks’ first novel ¬— “Dangerous Behavior”, a psychological thriller, was published in hardcover by Carroll & Graf. The film rights were purchased by Paramount Pictures.