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Carole Bayer Sager

Sometimes Late At Night

Expanded Edition Remastered CD with Bonus Tracks | ICON 1056

  • Originally released 1981
  • Co-written and co-produced by Burt Bacharach
  • Features an exclusive duet with Michael Jackson, plus prominent contributions from Neil Diamond, Melissa Manchester, Peter Allen, David Foster, Lee Ritenour, members of Toto and Pages/Mr. Mister, and more session stars
  • Includes 2 rare bonus single versions plus 20 minutes of audio commentary from Carole Bayer Sager and Burt Bacharach
  • Digitally remastered by Vic Anesini
  • New 5,600-word liner notes by Joe Marchese (TheSecondDisc.com), including exclusive interviews with Carole Bayer Sager, Burt Bacharach, and the late Brooks Arthur
  • Memorabilia-packed 24-page booklet
  • Includes her Top 40 hit “Stronger Than Before”
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Track Listing

  • 1. Prologue
  • 2. I Won’t Break
  • 3. Just Friends
  • 4. Tell Her
  • 5. Somebody’s Been Lying
  • 6. On The Way To The Sky
  • 7. You And Me (We Wanted It All)
  • 8. Sometimes Late At Night
  • 9. Wild Again
  • 10. Easy To Love Again
  • 11. Stronger Than Before
  • 12. You Don’t Know Me
  • 13. Reprise

Bonus Tracks

  • 14. Conversation with Carole and Burt, Part 1
  • 15. Stronger Than Before (single version)
  • 16. Conversation with Carole and Burt, Part 2
  • 17. Easy To Love Again (single version)
  • 18. Conversation with Carole and Burt, Part 3

Special Guests

  • Burt Bacharach - Piano and Synthesizers
  • Richard Bennett - Guitar
  • Vince Charles - Percussion
  • Paulinho Da Costa - Percussion
  • Neil Diamond - Guitar on On The Way To The Sky
  • King Errisson - Percussion
  • David Foster - Fender Rhodes and Synthesizer
  • Steve George - Background Vocals
  • Vennette Gloud - Background Vocals
  • Franne Golde - Background Vocals
  • Jay Graydon - Electric Guitar Joann Harris - Background Vocals
  • Tom Hensley - Piano
  • Michael Jackson - Duet Vocals on Just Friends
  • Paul Jackson Jr. - Guitar
  • Jim Keltner - Drums
  • Michael Lang - Piano and Fender Rhodes
  • Alan Lindgren - Synthesizer
  • Warren Luening - Flugel Horn
  • Steve Lukather – Guitar
  • Melissa Manchester - Background Vocals on On The Way To The Sky, Sometimes Late At Night
  • Tim May - Acoustic Guitar
  • Richard Page - Duet Vocals on Wild Again, Background Vocals on I Won't Break, Easy To Love Again, Stronger Than Before
  • Jeff Porcaro - Drums
  • Reinie Press - Bass
  • Doug Rhone - Guitar
  • Lee Ritenour - Electric and Acoustic Guitar
  • Bruce Roberts - Background Vocals on On The Way To The Sky, Stronger Than Before
  • Lee Sklar - Bass
  • Dennis St. John - Drums
  • Ian Underwood - Synthesizers
  • Ed Walsh - Synthesizers
  • George Young - Saxophone

Originally released in 1981, Carole Bayer Sager’s Sometimes Late At Night is no ordinary record. A concept album with seamlessly flowing songs balancing lyrical intimacy and musical splendor, it chronicles the arc of a relationship and the many facets of love through a woman’s perspective.

Written by Carole Bayer Sager and Burt Bacharach in the early days of their romance, produced by Bacharach and Brooks Arthur, and featuring a “Who’s Who” of the era’s top musicians, Sometimes Late At Night has been described by AllMusic’s Joe Viglione as “the Sgt. Pepper of singer-songwriter recordings.”