Bruce Roberts

Bruce Roberts, a pop songwriter, issued his self-titled debut album via Elektra Records in 1977. Greater success arrived, however, through his work composing for other performers, beginning that same year when the comic single “You’re Movin’ Out Today”—co-written with Carole Bayer Sager and Bette Midler—charted for Midler. He soon turned to crafting material for movie soundtracks. Alongside Paul Jabara and Bob Esty he supplied “The Main Event/Fight,” a Top Ten hit for Barbra Streisand that also served as the theme to her 1979 film The Main Event. A subsequent collaboration with Jabara produced “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough),” which Streisand and Donna Summer carried to number one later the same year. In 1982 Roberts, Sager, and Burt Bacharach scored a Top 40 hit when Roberta Flack recorded the theme from Making Love. By the mid-’80s Roberts was working with Andy Goldmark, and together they generated further Top 40 singles: Jermaine Jackson’s “Dynamite” in 1984, Jeffrey Osborne’s “You Should Be Mine [The Woo Woo Song]” in 1986, and Jennifer Rush’s “Flames of Paradise” featuring Elton John in 1987. Roberts’ second solo album, Intimacy—featuring guest appearances by John, Luther Vandross, k.d. lang, Ashford & Simpson, All-4-One, and others—appeared in 1995.