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Carole Bayer Sager - Clint Eastwood Collaboration on title song for "Grace is Gone" is nominated for a 12th Satellite Award
Carole’s “Thankful” Featured On Josh Groban’s #1 Holiday CD,
The Highest Selling Xmas Package Ever.
Los Angeles | December 7, 2007— Carole Bayer Sager, the Oscar, GRAMMY, and Hall of Fame, winning singer songwriter, continues to extend the success of her career with a number of new endeavors. Carole’s collaboration with Clint Eastwood on the title song for the Weinstein Company’s film release Grace Is Gone is nominated for the 12th Satellite Awards by the International Press Academy. Grace Is Gone, which is sung by Jamie Cullum for the movie which stars John Cusack will be released in select markets on December 7th with a wide release in January.
Sager’s song Thankful is featured on the current #1 Josh Groban’s holiday album, Noel. Thankful which was written by Sager and David Foster and recorded with the London Philharmonic, is the only new song on Groban’s CD, which is the largest selling Christmas album ever.
In addition, a sample of a #1 R&B song Carole wrote called With You, recorded by the Moments, is featured as 50 Cent’s bonus song Smile from his newly released album, Curtis. The bonus song was available when the CD was pre-ordered from the iTunes store. Sager also appeared as a celebrity judge this year on American Idol.
Sager, who made a name for herself when she wrote her first #1 hit “A Groovy Kind of Love” while still in high school, has endured a long-standing and thriving career, which includes a gratifying six Academy Award nominations and seven GRAMMY nominations, bringing home one of each award. Carole has had number one records in every decade since her songwriting career began.
Beyond her songwriting, Sager is continuing her philanthropic involvement and is also a self-proclaimed avid Internet surfer. Due to her vast familiarity with the “online” space, Sager was approached by the Huffington Post to write a weekly blog. Her weekly blog for the Post, in which she has recently raved about some of her favorite Internet sites and most importantly all of the philanthropic opportunities to give to to others on line, making everyone an instant philanthropist at any level they can afford. In addition, Sager has launched her own unique website www.carolebayersager.com.
Sager and her husband, Bob Daly, underwrote the first two years of the Los Angeles operation of the non-profit organization known as DonorChoose.org which allows teachers to post the projects they need funding for and donors to choose the classroom plan that they want to fund. In 2005, when Sager and Daly began their association, this program existed in five cities. Today, it is has grown to a nationwide network. Sager solicited Morgan Freeman, Bette Midler, Sidney Poitier and Claire Danes to participate as the four animated PSA voices that have helped the organization achieve national growth. Sager also donated her time and talents to write songs for two CD that benefits the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS charity and confounded with Joyce Bogart, the Neil Bogart Children’s Cancer Research Labs in L. A.’s Children’s Hospital. In addition, Sager has just joined the advisory board of an organization she found on the web called globalgiving.com.
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Carole’s “Thankful” Featured On Josh Groban’s #1 Holiday CD,
The Highest Selling Xmas Package Ever.
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Sager’s song Thankful is featured on the current #1 Josh Groban’s holiday album, Noel. Thankful which was written by Sager and David Foster and recorded with the London Philharmonic, is the only new song on Groban’s CD, which is the largest selling Christmas album ever.
In addition, a sample of a #1 R&B song Carole wrote called With You, recorded by the Moments, is featured as 50 Cent’s bonus song Smile from his newly released album, Curtis. The bonus song was available when the CD was pre-ordered from the iTunes store. Sager also appeared as a celebrity judge this year on American Idol.
Sager, who made a name for herself when she wrote her first #1 hit “A Groovy Kind of Love” while still in high school, has endured a long-standing and thriving career, which includes a gratifying six Academy Award nominations and seven GRAMMY nominations, bringing home one of each award. Carole has had number one records in every decade since her songwriting career began.
Beyond her songwriting, Sager is continuing her philanthropic involvement and is also a self-proclaimed avid Internet surfer. Due to her vast familiarity with the “online” space, Sager was approached by the Huffington Post to write a weekly blog. Her weekly blog for the Post, in which she has recently raved about some of her favorite Internet sites and most importantly all of the philanthropic opportunities to give to to others on line, making everyone an instant philanthropist at any level they can afford. In addition, Sager has launched her own unique website www.carolebayersager.com.
Sager and her husband, Bob Daly, underwrote the first two years of the Los Angeles operation of the non-profit organization known as DonorChoose.org which allows teachers to post the projects they need funding for and donors to choose the classroom plan that they want to fund. In 2005, when Sager and Daly began their association, this program existed in five cities. Today, it is has grown to a nationwide network. Sager solicited Morgan Freeman, Bette Midler, Sidney Poitier and Claire Danes to participate as the four animated PSA voices that have helped the organization achieve national growth. Sager also donated her time and talents to write songs for two CD that benefits the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS charity and confounded with Joyce Bogart, the Neil Bogart Children’s Cancer Research Labs in L. A.’s Children’s Hospital. In addition, Sager has just joined the advisory board of an organization she found on the web called globalgiving.com.
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