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The Prescott Courier - March 23, 1978
Ask Dick Kleiner
Some people would be bitter, Not Kvitka Cisyk. Or, as she is better
know, Kacey Cisyk.
Kacey is the singer who first sang ”You Light Up My Life,” in the
movie of that title. Didi Conn, the star of the film, isn’t a
singer, so Kacey dubbed the song. But, of
course, it is Debby Boone’s record that has become the hit of the
year.
Kacey is a veteran studio singer, the kind who sings
on records, makes demos for other people, sings on commercials on TV, does backgrounds on stars' discs.
“I made a nice living,” she says, “I don’t need much - I don’t go
in for jewels and furs. If I make $10,000 a year, I’m happy.”
She had done some work for producer Joe Brooks, and
so she went along with him when he asked her to do the Singing for
Didi Conn in the picture he was making.
“I kept waiting for the contract to come in the mail,” she says.
“that’s the usual procedure. But the contract never came. So then
the picture came out, and the song became a big hit, and I still had
to threaten a law suit before I got paid.”
It’s all been settled now, and she isn’t bitter. A little miffed
– on the original cast album of the film, for example, her credit is
way down, after the background singers, and her name is misspelled.
Most people in the business know she did the song first, and good
things are happening to her. She just did the Johnny Carson show.
And, as she and I talked, a man came over to her and said he’d seen
her on the show and she was great.
“That’s the very first time I’ve been recognized in public,” she
said, beaming from ear to ear.
She’s also recorded the title song of Henry Winkler’s new film,
“The One and Only,” which was written by Marilyn and Alan Bergman
and Pat Williams, and she thinks it’s a possible hit.
So for Kvitka (her real Ukrainian name), the perverse lightning
bolt may turn out to be a love pat after all. |
