Word: bacharachs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Auntie Ree emerged in the early '60s as part of an impressive sorority -- soul sisters from all over. Cousin Dionne, working within the ricochet rhythms of Burt Bacharach's songs, built a brand-new bridge connecting gospel urgency to show-tune sophistication. Barbra Streisand moonlighted from Broadway and never went back. The jazz inflections of Nina Simone and Sarah Vaughan enriched the vocabulary of pop. The megaton voices of Jackie DeShannon, Dusty Springfield and Timi Yuro lent powerful shadings to love songs. And the girl groups -- all the -elles and -ettes, the Supremes and Shangri-Las -- kept teen pulses surging...
Today the women are back in the record stores, and they have dragged rock's first generation in with them. Chanteuse pop is in style again, stronger than ever, in the work of some young and veteran smooth sisters. Warwick won a Grammy for Bacharach's That's What Friends Are For, and Aretha was back at No. 1 with a George Michael duet, I Knew You Were Waiting ( for Me). Streisand's return to Broadway -- or rather to The Broadway Album -- went platinum last year. New voices are enriching the old melodic sound too. From Britain, Sade translated...
ADOPTED. By Carole Bayer Sager, 38, singer-lyricist, and her husband Burt Bacharach, 57, master songwriter and her collaborator for the past six years (the 1981 Oscar-winning song Arthur's Theme, the current hit That's What Friends Are For): their first child, a boy, born Dec. 3 (Bacharach has a daughter, 19, from his second marriage, to Actress Angie Dickinson); in Los Angeles. Name: Christopher Elton...
...interpretations--most notably Carole King's "You've Got a Friend" and "Up on the Roof," and Holland-Dozier-Holland's "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)." While Taylor gives an interesting performance of Buddy Holly's "Every Day" on this album, his version of Burt Bacharach's "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" is completely unexceptional...
Some reformers may recoup part of the expense because they no longer buy duplicates of clothes they already own but cannot find. One of the most popular layouts was designed by New Yorker Anita Bayer. Lyricist Carole Bayer Sager, her daughter, and husband Composer Burt Bacharach all have one in their Beverly Hills home. Sager calls it "functional and economical." The hangers swing back and forth, allowing the Bacharachs to view their entire wardrobes. Closet keeping becomes a science with Dani Needham, wife of Film Director Hal Needham. On the road more often than not, she carries a little book...