Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 238, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 June 1985 — Page 15

Merle Haggard leads with top country song

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CAROLE BAYER SAGER Writing a book is new to songwriter By MARY CAMPBELL AP Newsfeatures Writer Carole Bayer Sager has written a novel and she and her husband Burt Bacharach joke that maybe it’ll be the first book to enclose a title song. “We could put it on the sleeve. When we say sleeve we only think of a record sleeve,” she says. That’s logical, since Bacharach is a composer of popular music and Miss Sager is a lyricist. As she is interviewed, in their 37th floor Manhattan apartment, whitebeige with restful rose and blue accents, faint sounds of a piano can be heard from another room. Bacharach is composing the score for Peter O’Toole's movie “Creator.” They will write the title song together. Miss Sager has been writing lyrics a long time. She wrote “A Groovy Kind of Love” when she was 18,20 years ago. Right now she is more enthusiastic about projects other than writing lyrics. “Maybe it is just doing the same thing over and over gets boring,” she says. “I like creating the sound of the record.” But the novel, which despite talk of a title song, doesn’t yet have a title, is in the front of Miss Sager’s mind right now. She has a computer in their Southern California home and a smaller computer in the New York apartment, on which she wrote the book. Writing lyrics, she uses “lots of yellow legal pads and lots of pencils.” She says, “The novel is the first thing I’ve ever written alone in my life. I thought my greatest strength was in collaboration and it still may be musically that that is so. In some ways writing lyrics lowers the amount of risk taking. You’re aware of commercial restrictions and expectations, so you write within it. Music, as fabulous as it makes me feel and as much as I love it, is constricting to a lyricist. I’m writing within eight, 12 and 16 bars. “For the first third of the book, I felt like, if it doesn’t work out so what? That is very freeing. That allowed me a certain fantasy and freedom that I hadn’t felt in my composing in a long time. “By nature I’m funny. This book is very funny. My songs are not funny for the most part. Usually they’re romantic, sometimes a little poignant, when I let them touch a place inside people. “Burt and I iust performed in New York at a benefit. I told him next time instead of me opening with a medley of my hits, ‘lt’s My Turn,’ “When I Need You,’ ‘Nobody Does it Better,’ I’ll just read a chapter and he can underscore it on the piano.” Her book is about a mother and daughter, Miss Sager says. “The daughter is an author. A friend of hers is a superstar. You have the New YorkHollywood bicoastal, that trendy word, world, inhabited by people who are not worrying about the rent. But their problems are universal. She has ideas for more books and she wants to write more songs, with Melissa Manchester and Peter Allen. Miss Sager and Bacharach were married in April 1982 at the home of Neil and Joyce Bogart, with Neil and Marcia Diamond present. Bogart died a month later of cancer. Miss Sager made her third album, with Bacharach, “Sometimes I,ate at Night,” for Bogart’s Boardwalk Records. She doesn’t think she wants to make any more records as a singer but not because she thinks she’s too old. One of the great joys for me this year is to see the re-emergence of Tina Turner. It is never too late to do what one really wants to do. I think we only have so much time in this life and we ought to decide what it is we want to do with it.

Bv The Associated Press The following are Billboard’s hot record hits as they appear in next week’s issue of Billboard magazine. Copyright 1985, Billboard Publications, Inc. Reprinted with permission. HOT SINGLES 1. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World” Tears For Fears (Mercury) 2. “Everything She Wants” Wham (Columbia) 3. “Axel F” Harold Faltermeyer (MCA) 4. "Suddenly” Billy Ocean (Jive) 5. “Heaven” Bryan Adams (A&M) 6. “Things Can Only Get Better” Howard Jones (Elektra) 7. “In My House” The Mary Jane Girls (Gordy) 8. “Don’t You" Simple Minds (A&M) 9. “Fresh” Kool & The Gang (De-Lite) 10. “Walking On Sunshine” Katrina & The Waves (Capitol) TOP LP’s 1. “Around the World in a Day” Prince & The Revolution (Paisley Park) 2. “No Jacket Required” Phil Collins (Atlantic)-Platinum (More than 1 million units sold.)

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