Barry Manilow

Barry Manilow

Barry Manilow

When I was 13 years old, I came to know this great singer from a close schoolmate.  I was struggling to learn English language, could not getting my pronunciation right and my beloved aunt whom migrate to Vancouver, Canada had encouraged me to learn English language seriously.  So in order to correct my English language pronunciation correctly, I took Barry Manilow as my vocal guide.  Can't smile without you was one of the early song I tried to learn to sing.  Mandy came to me when I was 14 year old and at that time I met a girl, a year older than me, was named Mandy.  I felt in love with this song Mandy and at that time Mandy was my competition song and I did managed to get minus one backing track on cassette.

Subsequently the old song came to my life.  I write the song, Copacabana, and One Voice struck unto my life.  I love singing this songs.  When I was in my college I won my first singing competition with the song Even Now.  It took me 6 months learning this song and I might be singing this song again next year in England.

Recent I tried sing the song Even Now again but I did not deliver as expected.  I did not sing this song more than 2 years and the quality of singing this song went down.  The song Memory was one of my oldest competition song and I did sang that in London.  The recording company wanted me to pay some administrative fees and the deal did not go through even the producer find it suitable for me to record it as single album.

Manilow recorded and accompanied artists on the piano for auditions and performances in the first two years of the 1970s. He recorded four tracks as Featherbed, produced by Tony Orlando on Bell Records. Three of the tracks—"Morning", a ballad; "Amy", a psychedelic-influenced pop song; and an early, uptempo version of his own composition with Orlando as co-writer, "Could It Be Magic."[24][25] A fourth tune recorded was "Rosalie Rosie", which was to be the flip side of "Could It Be Magic", but Bell Records went with "Morning" as the flip for Featherbed's second release instead. Neither of two singles released impacted on the charts.

Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, musician and producer with a career that has spanned more than 50 years. His hit recordings include "Mandy", "Can't Smile Without You", and "Copacabana (At the Copa)".

He recorded and released 47 Top 40 singles, including 12 that hit number one and 27 of which appeared within the top ten, and has released many multi-platinum albums. Although not a favorite artist of music critics,[2] Manilow has been praised by entertainers including Frank Sinatra, who was quoted in the 1970s as saying, "He's next."[3] In 1988, Bob Dylan stopped Manilow at a party, hugged him and said, "Don't stop what you're doing, man. We're all inspired by you."[4]

As well as producing and arranging albums for himself and other artists, Manilow has written and performed songs for musicals, films, and commercials for corporations such as McDonald's, Pepsi-Cola, and Band-Aid, from the 1960s. He has been nominated for a Grammy Award (winning once) as a producer, arranger and performer a total of fifteen times (and in every decade) from 1973 to 2015.[5] He has also produced Grammy nominated albums for Bette Midler, Dionne Warwick, Nancy Wilson and Sarah Vaughn.[6] Manilow has sold more than 80 million records as a solo artist worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists.[7]

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Barry Manilow songs

* The bold formatted are the songs I always sing.

A

1. And I Love Her
2. Anyone Can Do the Heartbreak

B

1. Bermuda Triangle (song)
2. Beyond the Sea (song)
3. Brandy (Scott English song)

C

1. Can't Smile Without You
2. Can't Take My Eyes Off You
3. Copacabana (song)
4. Could It Be Magic

D

1. Daybreak (Barry Manilow song)

E

1. Even Now (Barry Manilow song) 001 002

I

1. I Don't Want to Walk Without You
2. I Go Crazy (Paul Davis song)
3. I Made It Through the Rain
4. I Should Care
5. I Won't Be the One to Let Go
6. I Write the Songs
7. I'm Your Man (Barry Manilow song)
8. It's a Miracle (Barry Manilow song)
9. It's Just Another New Year's Eve

L

1. Let's Hang On!
2. Lonely Together (Barry Manilow song)
3. Looks Like We Made It
4. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (song)

M

1. Memory (song)

O

1. The Old Songs
2. On the Sunny Side of the Street

R

1. Read 'Em and Weep
2. Ready to Take a Chance Again
3. River (Joni Mitchell song)
4. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (song)

S

1. Sandra (Barry Manilow song)
2. Some Girls (Racey song)
3. Somewhere Down the Road (Barry Manilow song)
4. Somewhere in the Night (song)
5. Stay (Barry Manilow song)

T

1. This One's for You (Barry Manilow song)
2. Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again
3. The Twelfth of Never

U

1. Unchained Melody

W

1. Weekend in New England
2. When I Fall in Love
3. When I Wanted You
4. When October Goes
5. Where Do I Go from Here (England Dan & John Ford Coley song)
6. Windy