Carole Bayer Sager, a lyricist, songwriter, singer and painter, is 67 years old today. Carole Bayer was born in New York City to parents Anita and Eli Bayer. She graduated from New York University, where she majored in English, dramatic arts and speech. She had already co-written her first pop hit, A Groovy Kind of Love, with Toni Wine, while still a student at the New York City High School of Music and Art. It was recorded by the British invasion band The Mindbenders, whose version was a worldwide hit, reaching #2 on the Billboard magazine Hot 100. This song was later recorded by Sonny & Cher, Petula Clark, and Phil Collins whose rendition for the film Buster reached number one in 1988. Sagers first recording as a singer was the 1977 album Carole Bayer Sager, which included the #1 international single Youre Moving Out Today, a song which she co-wrote with Bette Midler and Bruce Roberts. (Paul Buckmaster provided horn and string arrangements for the album.) The album went platinum in Japan, Australia and the United Kingdom. It was followed by ...Too in 1978 and a third and last album, co-produced by Burt Bacharach, entitled Sometimes Late at Night (1981), which included a top 30 hit single Stronger Than Before, later recorded by Dionne Warwick and Chaka Khan. Many of Sagers early songs were co-written with her former husband, the composer Burt Bacharach. She has also collaborated with Beach Boy Brian Wilson, Neil Diamond, Marvin Hamlisch, Michael Masser, Peter Allen, Melissa Manchester, Sheena Easton, Bruce Roberts, Neil Sedaka, David Foster, Albert Hammond, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Michael McDonald, James Ingram, Donald Fagen, Steve Perry, Babyface and Clint Eastwood (for the film, True Crime). Sager has won an Academy Award (out of six nominations), a Grammy Award (out of nine nominations), and two Golden Globes (out of seven nominations). Sager was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987. She won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1981 for Arthurs Theme (Best That You Can Do), which was the theme song of the movie Arthur. She shared this Oscar with her co-writers Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach and Christopher Cross. Sager received the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1987 for the song Thats What Friends Are For, which she co-wrote with Bacharach. This song was originally written for the movie Night Shift (1982), and it was recorded for this movie by Rod Stewart. The song was also honored for its cover version in 1986 by Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and Elton John. This one became a number-one hit in Billboard magazine Hot 100 sonces, and it raised millions of dollars for research into the cause and treatment of AIDS. Sager is also a painter, working with both abstracts and portraits. Her first solo art show was in March 2011 at the L.A. Arthouse in Los Angeles. Almost the entire show was sold out, Among her collectors, Elton John, Lynda Resnick, Michael Chow, Margaret Perenchio, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, David Geffen, Steve Martin, Robert Manoukian, Elaine Wynn, Nigel Lithgoe and Barbara Walters. Here, Sager performs “You’re Moving Out Today,” a song co-written with Bette Midler and Bruce Roberts, in 1977.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 05:11:32 +0000
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