Carol Bayer Sager
| Carole Bayer Sager | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Carole Bayer March 8, 1947 Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Education | New York University |
| Occupation | Lyricist, singer, songwriter, painter |
| Spouse(s) | Andrew Sager (m. 1970–1978) Burt Bacharach (m. 1982–1991) Robert A. Daly (m. 1996) |
| Children | Cristopher Elton Bacharach |
Carole Bayer Sager (born March 8, 1947) is an American lyricist, singer, songwriter and painter and New York Times best-seller author.
Sager was born in Manhattan to Anita Nathan Bayer and Eli Bayer. Her family was Jewish. She graduated from New York University, where she majored in English, dramatic arts and speech. She had already written her first pop hit, "A Groovy Kind of Love", with Toni Wine, while still a student at New York City's 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 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. She also had a career as a singer, including her 1977 Australian number one single "You're Moving Out Today" which also reached Number 6 in the UK singles chart in June 1977.
Sager's first recording as a singer was the 1977 album Carole Bayer Sager, which included "You're 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 the single "Stronger Than Before", later recorded by Dionne Warwick and Chaka Khan.
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