News about Carole Bayer Sager

Michael McDonald is sharing about how his hit duet with Pattie LaBelle, On My Own, came to fruition nearly 40 years ago. Written by Burt Bacharach and his then-wife Carole Bayer Sager, the song was originally recorded by singer Dionne Warwick for her studio album Friends (1985). But about a year later, LaBelle and McDonald were paired together to do their own version of On My Own for her eighth studio album, Winner In You (1986). In McDonald's new memoir What A Fool Believes, the singer, keyboardist and songwriter revealed that the two star had never met in person by the time the track hit the radio and shot up the charts. 'I was telling [Patti] just the other night how it was so funny how we hadn't met. The song was recorded and it was out on the radio. We still hadn't met until we had to do The Tonight Show [months later]. That was the first time we actually met and did the song together,' McDonald, 72, told People .