He's written soundtracks for some of our most beloved movies, TV shows and musicals,

when Harry met Sally, sister act, hairspray, only murders in the building.

And the list goes on and on.

This is Jane Pauli.

Sunday morning's Tracy Smith talks with the man behind the music,

Mark Schaman.

So let's talk about the why.

You communicate so beautifully with music and lyrics.

Why did you decide to write a memoir? I was tired of the music and lyrics? Why did you decide to write a memoir?

I was tired of the music and lyrics.

Partly it was because, you know, as I keep working with different generations of people as I get older and older,

they don't know about what I've done before. Like my entire film career, people in the theater don't know.

And it was one day on Hairspray.

After the show had already opened, someone came up to me and said,

did you work on Sister Act 2?

I was like, yeah, I worked on Sister Act 1 and 2 and a lot of other things.

Google me.

And once they heard I had worked on Sister

Act 2, everyone in the cast was like, there's just had a whole new attitude about me because

that movie for that generation meant so much. And so I have a lot of incidents like that

where it's not to boast, maybe a little, or maybe a lot, but it's just wanting people to know

what I've done so that they know what I'm capable of or where I'm coming from.

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