Carole Bayer Sager Lyrics

In the 1960s, Carole attended New York's High School of Music and Art, where she began writing poems - as lyrics. In 1966, she came to the attention of Screen Gems president Don Kirshner, who signed her to his publishing company, where she soon was penning songs for such groups as 'The Monkees' and 'The Mindbenders'. In 1970, she wrote the lyrics for the off-Broadway show Georgy. In 1975, she and Melissa Manchester co-composed "Midnight Blue", and "Don't Cry Out Loud". In 1978, Elektra issued her 'debut' album. Singer Leo Sayer had a hit with one of Carol's tunes, "When I Need You". Sager co-wrote "They're Playing Our Song' with husband Marvin Hamlisch. Later, Carole and Marvin were nominated for an Oscar nomination for their song "Nobody Does It Better," - the theme of the James Bond movie thriller The Spy Who Loved Me . In 1981, Sager's third LP Sometimes Late at Night, had her biggest solo hit, - the single "Stronger Than Before". Regretfully, her marriage to Hamlisch ended in divorce, amd she began working with another composer, Burt Bacharach. Their 1981 song ""Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)", - a hit for singer Christopher Cross, earned them an Academy Award. The next year, Sager and Bacharach, were married, and though this marriage also, sadly, ended in divorce their partnership was very fruitful. The song "That's What Friends Are For"; originally written in 1982 for the comedy Night Shift, is perhaps their most notable. For singer Neil Diamond, Sager, and Bacharach wrote the hit "Heartlight". For a Patti Labelle /Michael McDonald duet, they wrote "On My Own". In 1988 the team scored the soundtrack for the sequel Arthur 2: On the Rocks, and also wrote some tracks for Barbra Streisand's LP Till I Loved You. Since her divorce from Bacharach; Carol has continued to work, writing songs for such films as Beethoven's 2nd and Junior.

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