The great comedy filmmaker Mel Brooks wrote a song for his first movie, 'The Producers' (1967). 'It was the first real song I had ever written and I did it in a day.' He would continue to write songs for 'The Twelve Chairs', 'Blazing Saddles', 'High Anxiety', 'To Be or Not to Be', 'The History of the World Part 1', 'Spaceballs', and 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights'. More songs were written for the Broadway musical versions of 'The Producers' and 'Young Frankenstein'.

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