The Hello and 33 of So DeJerk are on songwriting. This is Simon and as always I'm here with my brother in arms Brian and boy do we have a guest for you today. She is an Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe winner who during her 40 yearyear plus career has co-authored a slew of

staggeringly successful songs for a veritable who's who of popular music

its songwriter, singer and and artist Carol Bayer Sega.

We're absolutely delighted to get to talk to Carol.

She's a writer whose work we've admired since before we even knew her name.

It's true. I remember when we finally discovered who it was who was behind all of these songs.

Yeah, I mean, you know, we've always loved the songs she worked on for movies such as nobody does it better

for The Spy Who Love Me and the theme from Arthur and then there's her contributions to some of our all-time

favorite pop albums you know she wrote it's the falling in love which was on

Michael Jackson's off the wall yeah I mean the more we investigated the more we

were just staggered by the sheer quantity and quality of her work

over the years. Yeah and there's just so many songs that she's had a hand in that are so

familiar to us. Her work is just woven into the pop tapestry, you could say, of the last half century.

That's beautifully put. And though she's eased her songwriting workload over the last few years

in favour of a new career as a painter and a very fine painter at that.

She remains one of the music industries first called Lyricists.

And what an amazing list of artists, Bry that she's collaborated with over the years.

Yeah, we're talking about the likes of Neil Siddaka, him again.

Pops up a lot, does Neil? He does. Albert Hammond, the recently departed Marvin Hamlish,

Bear Bacharach, to whom she was also married, David Foster, Carol King, Neil Diamond,

Brian Wilson, Kenneth Baby Face Edmonds, even Bob Dylan.

And those are just the obscure ones.

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