The singer-songwriter was the recipient of the Hal David Starlight Award at last week's Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee ceremony in New York.

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He also collaborated with composers Burt Bacharach and Hal David on a number of hits, including Town Without Pity, which became his signature song, and we'd like to let you hear all of it.

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Sam can say that the Americans have problems too, with the likes of David Duval and Hal Sutton, but the rest of their team is much stronger than ours.

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David Cotterill grabbed the first before Bale set up Hal Robson-Kanu for the second.

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David is a walking, smiling, outwardly self-assured HAL who may have an agenda of his own.

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