Elliot Willensky wrote Michael Jackson’s first solo hit song “Got To Be There” and has been writing and producing songs professionally since 1969. At Motown his songs were recorded by the Smokey Robinson, Jermaine Jackson, The Fifth Dimension, Syreeta, Thelma Houston, Jerry Butler, Chaka Khan among others.

More recently, his song “If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful”, a duet with Whitney Houston and Jermaine Jackson, appeared on Whitney Houston’s Greatest Hits album, and was voted by People Magazine as one of the top ten songs performed at weddings.

Elliot has numerous television credits including specials with Bell Telephone Hour, music coordinator of Tony Orlando and Dawn TV series, national commercials with National Smokeout Day, Hertz, Fresca and Chrysler, and the latest Hollywood Wives movie with Farrah Fawcett which aired this past year.

Elliot also wrote the score to the musical “Abby’s Song” which played on Broadway in New York. He currently lives in Nashville where he is an independent writer and producer.