Lawrence was tremendously proud to have provided the melodies and harmonies to songs performed by vocalists he admired. His wife, Cathy Lawrence, tells NPR that he suffered 'puzzling symptoms for years that got sharply worse in the last few months.' Lawrence died on December 30 at Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, N.J. You and Me, the beloved children's music album conceived and produced by actress Marlo Thomas, and composed songs for the project, including the title track, with the late lyricist Bruce Hart. He also served as music director for Free to Be.

From Muppets to major stars, Lawrence composed the music for hundreds of Sesame Street songs. In addition to her husband's death, she had her own serious bout with cancer in the 1990s, which seems to have turned her to a more spiritual/global bent in other words, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for her to write more Jessie and Michael books. However, it's too bad no one seems to have hipped her to how much money she could make offering all three books in e-book form.If you were a kid in the 1970s and your parents let you watch TV, you heard the music of Stephen Lawrence. The Harts wrote a string of YA novels for Avon Flare in the late 80s/early 90s, and Now Or Never was the second to last of them.Īs for Carole Hart writing another book without her husband - her most recent work seems to be a documentary released in 2009 called For The Next Seven Generations. It's worth noting that there was something like 20 years between the publication of Waiting Games and Now Or Never based on the fact that the book seems to have been out of print ever since its initial run, I'm guessing that whatever success it had didn't warrant continuing, anyway. My guess is that the main reason the book was written decades after the second one was to finish what they'd started, not really to revive/reboot the series to go on and on. I'm not quite sure why so many people feel that the story was left unfinished. I bought a copy of Now Or Never back when it was still in print, and I can tell you that the story does reach a conclusion in that book, even though the Harts left themselves a bit of room to keep going just in case. Bruce and Carole Hart wrote another rock-themed novel set in NJ called Strut, but it is unconnected to the Sooner Or Later series.

Twilapickle, the above poster is mistaken, there are only three novels in the series: Sooner Or Later, Waiting Games, and Now Or Never.

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