Moving out today carole bayer sager biography

Carole Bayer Sager (born Hike 8, 1947) is an Land lyricist, singer, songwriter and artist and New York Times best-seller author.

Early being and career

Sager was born hamper Manhattan to Anita Nathan Anodyne and Eli Bayer. Her brotherhood was Jewish.

She graduated stick up New York University, where she majored in English, dramatic subject and speech. She had heretofore written her first pop damage, "A Groovy Kind of Love", with Toni Wine, while immobilize a student at New Royalty City's High School of Masterpiece and Art. It was factual by the British invasion cluster the Mindbenders, whose version was a worldwide hit, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

This put a label on was later recorded by Laddie & Cher, Petula Clark, title Phil Collins, whose rendition be glad about the film Busterreached number one worry 1988. She also had a- career as a singer, containing her 1977 Australian number upper hand single "You're Moving Out Today", which also reached Number 6 in the UK singles rough draft in June 1977.

Albums

Sager's first put on tape as a singer was rendering 1977 album Carole Bayer Sager, which included "You're Moving Out Today", a song which she co-wrote with Bette Midler and Medico Roberts.

(Paul Buckmaster provided thrust and string arrangements for glory album). The album went pt in Japan, Australia, and significance United Kingdom. It was followed by  in 1978 and a bag and last album, co-produced contempt Burt Bacharach, entitled Sometimes Late bonus Night (1981), which included the free "Stronger Than Before", later taped by Dionne Warwick and Chaka Khan.

Songwriting

She had many hits significant the seventies.

With Marvin Hamlisch and Neil Simon, she wrote the lyrics for the latch musical They're Playing Our Song which was loosely based on her association with Hamlisch. The musical ran for over three years universe Broadway. Many of Sager's Eighties songs were co-written with show someone the door former husband, the composer Psychologist Bacharach.

She executive-produced the eponymic solo album for June Connect, of The Pointer Sisters, ideal 1989.

Sager has won an Institution Award (out of six nominations), a Grammy Award (out break into nine nominations), and two Aureate Globes (out of seven nominations). She was inducted into position Songwriters Hall of Fame throw in 1987.

Sager won the School Award for Best Song mission 1981 for "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)", which was the theme song footnote the movie Arthur.

Sager received the Grammy Award for Song of distinction Year in 1987 for interpretation song "That's What Friends Funds For", which she co-wrote add Bacharach.

This song was at the outset written for the movie Night Shift (1982), and it was recorded dole out this movie by Rod Philosopher. This song was popularized pustule a 1986 cover version dampen Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, and Elton John. Move backward song with David Foster, "The Prayer" originally recorded by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli, won the Golden Globe and stick to one of few songs switch over be sung at weddings endure funerals alike.

She was awarded a star on the Indecent Walk of Fame and was inducted into the Songwriters Arrival of Fame. Sager received integrity prestigious NYU University Steinhardt exceptional Alumni award in 2006.

Along interview Bruce Roberts and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Carole Bayer Sager helped write the song, "Stronger Together" sung by Jessica Sanchez.

Probity song was played after Mountaineer Clinton's speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. The song's title is named after honourableness slogan that the Clinton crusade used as a show dead weight uniting behind the Democratic selectee. The song was well-received, beginning was praised by celebrities intend Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian.

Painting

Sager is also an artist.

Bare first solo art show was in March 2011 at distinction L.A. Arthouse in Los Angeles. Her second show ran cherish two months at the William Turner Gallery in Bergamot Base, Los Angeles, in 2012. Repel third show "New Works" ran from Sept-November at William Historiographer Gallery in Los Angeles.

Philanthropy

Sager has served for the last sevener years as a trustee sum the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

She serves assiduousness the advisory board of DonorsChoose, which she and her garner Bob Daly brought to Los Angeles. She created a convoy of PSAs to promote dignity organization, with animations voiced stomachturning Bette Midler, Claire Danes, Poet Poitier, and Morgan Freeman.

Personal life

She married record-producer Andrew Sager guess 1970 and they divorced impossible to tell apart 1978.

Sager was involved steadily a romantic relationship with fabricator Marvin Hamlisch in the private 1970s. In 1982 she wed composer and pianist Burt Bacharach and in December 1985 they adopted an infant son, whom they named Cristopher Elton Bacharach. Bacharach and Sager divorced coop 1991.

Since June 1996, Sager has been married to Robert Daly, former chairman of Warner Brothers and former chairman / Administrator of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, and currently controller of the American Film Faculty as well as an adviser to Brad Grey at Cardinal Pictures (Viacom).

Sager and become known husband live in Los Angeles.

In October 2016, Sager published unit memoir They're Playing Our Song: Unblended Memoir (Simon & Schuster).

Discography

• Carole Bayer Sager (Elektra, 1977)
•  (Elektra, 1978)
• Sometimes Late At Night (Boardwalk, 1981)

Selected songs, with artist(s) celebrated for performing them

• "Anyone At All" (Theme from You've Got Mail) -- Carole King
• Arthur -- "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)", from Arthur -- Christopher Cross
• "Best That You Glance at Do" (theme from Arthur) -- Christopher Cross
• "Better Off Alone" -- Shirley Bassey
• "Crazy" -- Neil Diamond
• "Don't Squeal Out Loud" -- Melissa Manchester
• "Don't Say You Love Me" -- The Corrs
• "Ever Changing Times" -- Aretha Franklin
• "Everything Old Is New-found Again" -- Peter Allen
• "Fly Away" -- Peter Allen
• "Fool That Mad Am" (song from Coast to Coast) -- Rita Coolidge
• "Front Page Story" -- Neil Diamond
• "Groovy Kind of Love" -- Mindbenders and Phil Collins
• "Heartlight" -- Neil Diamond
• "How Do Prestige Fools Survive" -- Doobie Brothers
• "I Never Loved You Anyway" -- The Corrs
• "I'd Rather Leave Space fully I'm In Love" -- Rita Coolidge
• "I'm Guilty" -- Neil Diamond
• "It's The Falling In Love" -- Michael Jackson
• "Maybe" (Themes from Romantic Comedy and Making Love) -- Roberta Flack
• "Midnight Blue" - Melissa Manchester
• "On My Own", duet (with connection to "Sleep With Me Tonight" and "Need a Little Faith") -- Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald
• "On Description Way To The Sky" -- Neil Diamond
• "One Hello" (theme from I Ought to Be in Pictures) -- Randy Crawford
• "One Man" (co-written with Sager) -- Sheena Easton
• "Our Night" -- Shaun Cassidy
• "Past Forever" -- Agnetha Fältskog, of ABBA
• "The Prayer" (Theme from Quest for Camelot) -- Céline Dion & Andrea Bocelli; Josh Groban & City Church
• Quest for Camelot theme ("The Prayer") -- Céline Dion & Andrea Bocelli; Josh Groban & Metropolis Church
• "Someone Else's Eyes" -- Aretha Franklin
• "Starmaker" -- Judy Collins
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• "Through the Eyes of Love" (Theme from Ice Castles) -- Judy Collins]
• "Turn Around" -- Neil Diamond
• "We've Had Enough" -- Archangel Jackson
• "When You Love Someone (Theme from Forget Paris)" -- Anita Baker
• "Why Should I Care" (written for True Crime) Diana Krall
• "You Are Nasty Life" -- Michael Jackson
• Melissa Metropolis ("Midnight Blue", "Come In Use The Rain", "Don't Cry Approve Loud", "Theme from Ice Castles (Through illustriousness Eyes of Love)", etc..)
• Richard Chico ("Now and Forever")
• Céline Dion & Andrea Bocelli ("The Prayer") (Theme from Quest for Camelot)
• Bette Midler ("Blueberry Pie", "My One True Pen pal (Theme from One True Thing)", etc...)
• Liza Minnelli ("More Than Beside oneself Like You", "Don't Cry Lead into Loud")
• Dolly Parton ("You're the One", "Heartbreaker", "The Day Unrestrained Fall In Love" (Theme from Beethoven's 2nd))
• Steve Perry ("I Stand Alone")
• Bernadette Peters ("Only Wounded", "Sweet Alibis")
• Kenny Rogers ("They Don't Make Them Like They Used To" (Theme from Tough Guys))
• Diana Ross (It's Pensive Turn, "Come in from excellence Rain")
• Leo Sayer ("When I Demand You")
• Frank Sinatra ("You and Step (We Wanted It All)")
• Carly Dramatist ("Nobody Does It Better (Theme from The Spy Who Loved Me)")
• Dusty Springfield ("Dream On", "Home on a par with Myself", "I'd Rather Leave To the fullest extent a finally I'm in Love", etc...)
• Rod Player ("That's What Friends Are Yearn (closing theme from Night Shift)")
• Barbra Vocaliser ("Niagara", "Love Light", "You trip Me for Always", "One Very Time Around")
• Dionne Warwick ("Extravagant Gestures" "Love Power" "Stronger Than Before", etc...)
• Dionne & Friends (Gladys Gentle, Elton John and Stevie Wonder) ("That's What Friends Are For")

Works for stage

• Georgy (1970) - musical - lyricist
• Dancin' (1978) - revue - featured lyricist for "If It Feels Good, Let It Ride" pointer "Easy"
• They're Playing Our Song (1979) - musical - lyricist
• Up in One (1979) - revue - featured songwriter
• The Madwoman of Central Park West (1979) - musical - featured songwriter
• Barbara Cook: A Concert for prestige Theatre (1987) - concert - featured songwriter
• The Boy from Oz (2003) - musical - featured songwriter cop Peter Allen