From bestclassicbands.com on We’ll Talk About It Later In The Car:
Stephen Bishop, whose hits include “On and On,” “Save it for a Rainy Day” and “It Might Be You,” and who wrote the Oscar-nominated song “Separate Lives,” has released a new studio album, We’ll Talk About It Later In The Car, on August 30 via BMG.
He’s got a video for a first single, “Like Mother Like Daughter.” Watch it below.
Bishop says that the new album contains “songs that should have been hits 40 years ago.” The record originally started as a demo project of tracks he wrote at the beginning of his career, but as he kept recording, the idea of turning it into a proper album took shape.
“I’m very proud of ‘Like Mother Like Daughter,’” says Bishop. “It’s much different than what my fans are used to hearing. I want people to see that I am not just a balladeer.”
Along with Bishop’s own compositions, there’s also “Someone Else,” the first song ever written by legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb when he was just 12. “It’s just one of the saddest songs you’ll ever hear,” Bishop notes. “Art Garfunkel is the only other person to record it. I’ve opened my concerts with it and really wanted to include it on the album.”
The gifted storyteller reveals that there’s a tale to the album’s title. “It comes from back when I was hanging out with Carrie Fisher,” he says. “We were at a Saturday Night Live taping and she wound up getting on a phone call. At one point, she said to the other person, ‘Anyway, we’ll talk about it later in the car.’ I thought it was something to do with me, but as it turned out, her mother, Debbie Reynolds, would say that when she wanted to talk about something at another time: ‘We’ll talk about it in the car.’ That line always stayed with me.”
Over the years, film fans have enjoyed Bishop’s appearances in such feature films as Kentucky Fried Movie, The Blues Brothers, Twilight Zone: The Movie and, of course, his legendary cameo as the “Charming Guy with Guitar” in 1978’s National Lampoon’s Animal House.
