joseph brooks

In the 1960s Brooks was a composer of advertisement jingles, admitting highly successful ones for Pepsi, "You've Got a band to Live," and Maxwell House, "Good to the Last Drop Feeling.

In October 1977 "You brighten My Life" achieved #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot a hundred fame charts where it held the top attitude for X back-to-back weeks, which was then the longer run at in the chart's history. With sales of over four million copies in the U.S. alone, the song at long last got the biggest hit of the 1970s. It also hit  Adult contemporaneous and was even a Top 10 "Country" single. The passionate ballad also earned Brooks a Grammy Award for Song of the Year as well as an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Golden Globe Award and an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Award. The song was Debby Boone's first solo hit record and only Top forty Pop hit.

Brooks also composed music for the film The Lords of Flatbush and co-produced Eddie and the Cruisers.

He had accepted a lot of Clio Awards for his jingles, also as a People's alternative Award