Pop songwriter
Bruce Roberts released his self-titled debut album on Elektra Records in 1977. But he became more successful penning songs for others, starting that same year, when the comic "You're Movin' Out Today," co-written with
Carole Bayer Sager and
Bette Midler, became a chart single for
Midler.
Roberts then began writing songs for movie soundtracks. With
Paul Jabara and
Bob Esty, he wrote "The Main Event/Fight," a Top Ten hit for
Barbra Streisand and the theme for her movie, The Main Event, in 1979. He and
Jabara followed with "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)," which
Streisand and
Donna Summer took to number one later that year.
Roberts,
Sager, and
Burt Bacharach enjoyed a Top 40 hit with
Roberta Flack's recording of the theme from the movie Making Love in 1982. By the mid-'80s,
Roberts was writing with
Andy Goldmark, and the two came up with Top 40 hits for
Jermaine Jackson ("Dynamite," 1984),
Jeffrey Osborne ("You Should Be Mine [The Woo Woo Song]," 1986), and
Jennifer Rush (with
Elton John; "Flames of Paradise," 1987).
Roberts' second solo album, Intimacy, on which he was joined by
John,
Luther Vandross,
k.d. lang,
Ashford & Simpson, and
All-4-One, among others, was released in 1995. ~ William Ruhlmann