Carole Bayer Sager: Last News

Diane Keaton’s new holiday single “First Christmas.”Putting the “Black” in “Black Friday,” the yuletide tearjerker is much more mopey than merry, sucking all of the holiday spirit out of you.And with Keaton’s painful performance — it’s the cringe that stole Christmas — the whole thing is just sad in every way.Why this acting legend, at 78, felt that this was the gift that we needed to start the season, we’ll never know.This bummer of a ballad, drearily drenched in strings, is about spending your “First Christmas” without the one you love.“Hearing ‘I’ll Be Home for Christmas’/It only makes me miss him/When you love someone for so, so long/Yet they’re not coming home,” warbles Keaton, tentatively talk-singing through it.And when it comes time to pour on the melodrama in the chorus, her limp vocals fall flat right along with the tired lyrics: “The snow falls on my window/I wish that I could let go/It’s a silent night/It’s another year/The first Christmas without you here.”“First Christmas” was co-written by Carole Bayer Sager, who has penned songs for everyone from Barbra Streisand and Dionne Warwick to Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.But Keaton isn’t anywhere near that club.At this point in her career, though, the Oscar winner for 1977’s “Annie Hall” can do whatever stuffs her stocking.“I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S FINALLY HERE!” Keaton gushed on Instagram last week. “MY DEBUT HOLIDAY SINGLE, ‘FIRST CHRISTMAS,’ IS COMING OUT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH.”Alongside the single cover where she is rocking one of her trademark turtlenecks, she added, “SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS SONG WITH YOU ALL.”Indeed, her longtime Christmas wish is finally coming true with this project.

Burt Bacharach has died at the age of 94.

Shirley Ju On Tuesday, May 10th, the 70th annual BMI Pop Awards took over the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.Hosted by BMI president and CEO Mike O’Neill and vice president, worldwide creative Barbara Cade, Carole Bayer Sager and Mike Stoller were honored as BMI Icons for their contributions as songwriters — their many credits include such classics as “Don’t Cry Out Loud” and “Hound Dog,” respectively. Both are members of Songwriters Hall of Fame and have enjoyed profitable careers in their craft for decades, as was noted in their BMI presentations.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and several James Bond themes, has died.The musician, who won several Oscars for his work across film and theatre, passed away at the age of 90. The news was confirmed by his friend, actor Joan Collins, on Instagram.“One of the giant songwriters of our time, writer of #candyman #goldfinger amongst so many other hits, and my great friend Leslie Bricusse has sadly died today,” Collins wrote last night (October 19).“He and his beautiful Evie have been in my life for over 50 years.

The good old Hipgnosis Songs Fund has acquired the catalogue of songwriter Carole Bayer Sager because, well, why the hell not? After all, the deal covers classic songs like ‘A Groovy Kind Of Love’, ‘Nobody Does It Better’ and ‘That’s What Friends Are For’.“This is one of the most important deals we have ever made”, says Hipgnosis founder Merck Mercuriadis. “Carole’s iconic songs have been making the world go around for more than 55 years.