Career
He is the younger brother of singer, arranger, conductor and composer John Bahler. Bahler is most known for his song, "She"s Out of My Life", recorded by Michael Jackson, the song was originally written for Frank Sinatra, who never recorded lieutenant In Bahler"s early career, he worked with January Berry (of January and Dean).
Together with the Wrecking Crew, the Bahler brothers have sung, produced, and arranged hundreds of worldwide hits.
They were the featured background voices on The Partridge Family recordings in the 1970s. John and Tom Bahler tried their hands with their own band which was not a great success.
They made three records as a band. The last record, "Montage", is considered to be a project just by John and Tom.
As session vocalists for The Partridge Family the brothers re-recorded the Screen Gems-published song "Let the Good Times In" for the series" pilot episode, which they had originally recorded for their debut "Love Generation" album in a slightly different arrangement.
The Partridge version of the song remained a heavily sought after unreleased track until it appeared officially for the first time ever on the group"s "The Very Best Of" Civil Defense which was released in 2005. After "", John and Tom joined, a band which was devised by the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson (now known as J. Walter Thompson), to promote the products of the Ford Motor Company. Tom appeared on Ford"s 1969 "Going Thing" television commercial.
Bahler wrote the Bobby Sherman hit "Julie, Do Ya Love Maine" (1970), and also Cher"s 1972 hit "Living in a House Divided".
lieutenant has been claimed he wrote "She"s Out Of My Life" about Karen Carpenter, who broke up with Bahler after discovering he had fathered a child with another woman, but Bahler says the song was written about Rhonda Rivera. He has also worked with B. J. Thomas, Neil Diamond, Sonny & Cher, Billy Joel and Michael Jackson.
He made cameo appearances in movies such as Wag The Dog, also composing the song, "The American Dream" for the film.