Paul Jabara

He also wrote "Heaven Is a Disco" for Patty Lapone.

What is the point?

[quote]What's The Point?

The point is you don't need to write a bunch of different songs, you can just take one song, tweek it a bit and have a bunch of hits with it.

People are suckers

Patty who?

He wrote and produced this lovely ballad for a very young Whitney Houston. She was the featured vocalist on one of his studio albums.

So there's that...

It's Raining Men was the best of the lot

hot voodoo

Lebanese American originally from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, who is buried in Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery.

Being interviewed by Dick Clark during one of his multiple appearances on American Bandstand in 1978 promoting his new movie, 'Thank God It's Friday' (link below)

And unlike OP, who is swimming in his own irrelevance and stupidity even as we speak, Paul Jabara is still remembered and will continue to be.

[quote]No More Tears

Actually, the song it titled "No More Tears/Enough is Enough". Jabara wrote the opening line "It's raining, it's pouring...." so that the song would be released on Streisand's "Wet" album where all the songs had water themes.

Well, at least only one person wrote the same song. Listen to Be a Clown by Cole Porter and Make 'Em Laugh by Arthur Freed.

Be a Clown from "The Pirate."

Make 'Em Laugh performed by Donald O'Conner from Singing in the Rain.

Ironically, both starred Gene Kelly.

Last Dance, sang by Donna Summer, won the Academy Award for best original song (off the Soundtrack Thank God It's Friday).

He had 4 tits?

He started the red ribbon for AIDS awareness. Won an Oscar. Performed on Broadway (JCS and HAIR I think) and write a Broadway show (Rachel Lilly Rosen…etc)

Wrote

[quote]He started the red ribbon for AIDS awareness

Don't even.

I sold him a vowel.

My only memory—

Paul was a funny, talented guy who embodied the zeitgeist of the 70s in gay NY & LA. He was a renaissance man who lived hard and played even harder. And he was much more talented than OP implies.

This Girl's Back in Town--the comeback song for the Supremes that almost happened....

You’re very wrong, OP. Jabara is best known for writing Rachael Lily Rosenbloom (And Don’t You Ever Forget It), which you ironically forgot.

Also, shame on you, R15, for misspelling “Rachael,” especially as the added “a” is a plot point in the musical.

Ellen Greene gave a tour-de-force performance as Rachael and the beloved score remains to this day, Jabara’s greatest legacy.

And they were all covered by gay-hating Donna Summer!

[quote]Jabara is best known for writing Rachael Lily Rosenbloom

Perhaps to theatre queens. Us popular, fun, disco queens remember his songs.

Didn’t he live in a hut in Trek Wars?

I remember seeing this video one of the first times I went to a gay bar. Good times.

I find Gregory Jbara kinda dorky hot.

Who can forget this magnum opus?

I was working at a sports convention in Atlanta in the late 80's, and our booth was right next to a stage, where they had this song on a constant loop all day, with some people doing a dance routine to it. It was completely crazy-making.