Barry (album)
''Barry'' is the seventh studio album released by American singer and songwriter Barry Manilow in 1980 on Arista Records. The album was certified Platinum in the US by the RIAA. Synopsis The tracks were recorded at Evergreen Recording Studios in Burbank, California. Manilow co-wrote with Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire the album track "Only in Chicago". "We Still Have Time" was taken from the film ''Tribute (1980 film), Tribute''. The album scored one top ten pop hit, "I Made It Through the Rain", which reached number ten, in early 1981. Although "I Made It Through the Rain" was his only Top-10 on the Hot 100 from this album, he managed to reach the Top-10 on the Adult-Contemporary lists with "Lonely Together" and the bouncy up-tempo "Bermuda Triangle (song), Bermuda Triangle" was a Top-20 hit in the UK in mid-1981. The album has yet to be released on CD in the US, but has had a CD release in Japan. It is however available as a digital download. Critical reception Joe Vigl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow ( ; born Barry Alan Pincus on June 17, 1943) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer with a career that spans over sixty years. His hit recordings include "Could It Be Magic", "Looks Like We Made It", "Brandy (Scott English song)#Barry Manilow version, Mandy", "I Write the Songs", "Can't Smile Without You", "Weekend in New England", and "Copacabana (At the Copa)". Manilow has recorded and released 51 Top 40 singles on the Adult Contemporary Chart, including 13 that hit number one, 28 that appeared within the top ten, and 36 that reached the top twenty. He has released 13 platinum and six RIAA certification, multi-platinum albums. Although not a favorite artist of music critics, Manilow has been praised by his peers in the recording industry. In the 1970s, Frank Sinatra predicted: "He's next." As well as producing and arranging albums for himself and other artists, Manilow has written and performed songs for musicals, films, and commercials for corpo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bermuda Triangle (song)
"Bermuda Triangle" is a song by Barry Manilow, from his album '' Barry''. Released as a single in 1981, it reached number 15 in the UK Singles Chart, number 16 in Germany and number 23 in Ireland. The song expresses fear at the prospect of entering the Bermuda Triangle and features tonicization In music, tonicization is the treatment of a pitch other than the overall tonic (the "home note" of a piece) as a temporary tonic in a composition. In Western music that is tonal, the piece is heard by the listener as being in a certain key. ...s, the cycle of fifths and a brief modulation to the tonic minor, which represents Manilow 'losing his woman'. Chart history References 1981 singles Barry Manilow songs Song recordings produced by Ron Dante Songs written by Barry Manilow Arista Records singles 1981 songs Songs with lyrics by Jack Feldman (songwriter) {{1980s-single-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marty Panzer
Marty Panzer (March 20, 1945) is an American songwriter and first song-writing partner of Barry Manilow. He is the author of over 30 songs recorded by Manilow and over a hundred songs for Disney Pictures. He also co-wrote the song " Through The Years", performed by Kenny Rogers. His song-writing contributed to 35 gold and platinum albums. He is a recipient of the 1999 Annie Award for Music in a Feature Production. He also wrote songs to Disney's '' Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World'' and '' The Lion King II: Simba's Pride''. Personal life Panzer originates from Brooklyn, New York City, having been born and raised just blocks away from Manilow. They first met while working together in the CBS-TV CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainmen ... mailroom in New York. See al ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gerard Kenny
Gerard W. Kenny (born July 8, 1947, New York City, United States) is an American singer-songwriter, based in London, England. In 1981, he received the Ivor Novello Award for Best Television Theme Music for his song "I Could Be So Good for You", the theme tune of the ITV series '' Minder''. Career Kenny formed his first band whilst in high school and between then and the early 1970s, he toured the club circuit. In 1968, he landed his first recording contract with Warner Bros. Records, and from that point until 1977 issued a number of singles that failed to break the charts. He also recorded for Buddah and Laurie; one of the singles on the latter titled "Happiest Man" is now collectable, selling for up to £200. Kenny relocated to London in 1977 and it was not until the following year that he scored his first hit single with " New York, New York (So Good They Named It Twice)" (an ode to his hometown), which spent two months on the UK Singles Chart, with its parent album ''Made I ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jack Feldman (songwriter)
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Bruce Sussman
Bruce Howard Sussman (born July 12, 1949) is an American lyricist and librettist. Though he has collaborated with numerous composers, he is probably best known for his work with his long-time collaborator, Barry Manilow. Together, they have written over two hundred songs for numerous recording artists, films, stage musicals and television programs. Life and career Sussman was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York and was raised on Long Island, where he graduated from Sanford H. Calhoun High School in Merrick, New York. He then graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Upon his return to New York, he was accepted into the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. During this period, he met Barry Manilow, and they began writing jingles and songs together. Among their first successes was "Copacabana (At the Copa)" which became Sussman's first gold record as well as a Grammy Award-winning, international hit. It would later become the source mate ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lonely Together (Barry Manilow Song)
"Lonely Together" is a 1981 song recorded by Barry Manilow. It was written by Kenny Nolan. The song was the second single release from Manilow's 1980 album, '' Barry''. ''Record World ''Record World'' magazine was one of three major weekly music industry trade magazines in the United States, with ''Billboard'' and '' Cashbox''. It was founded in 1946 as ''Music Vendor''. In 1964, it was changed to ''Record World'' under the ...'' said that the song's "striking string/choral arrangement is primed for pop-A/C acceptance." Chart history "Lonely Together" peaked at number 45 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100.''Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990'' - It reached number seven on the U.S. adult contemporary chart. In Ireland and the UK, it reached numbers 20 and 21, respectively. References External links * Songs about loneliness 1980 songs 1981 singles Barry Manilow songs Songs written by Kenny Nolan Arista Records singles {{1980s-pop-song-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden (born July 18, 1941) is an American writer, poet, and music and film critic. Biography Holden earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University in 1963. He worked as a photo editor, staff writer, and eventually became an A&R executive for RCA Records before turning to writing pop music reviews and related articles for ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, '' Blender'', ''The Village Voice'', '' The Atlantic'', and '' Vanity Fair'', among other publications. He first achieved prominence with his 1970s ''Rolling Stone'' work, where he tended to cover singer-songwriter and traditional pop artists. He joined the staff of ''The New York Times'' in 1981, and subsequently became one of the newspaper's leading theatre and film critics. Holden's experiences as a journalist and executive with RCA led him to write the satirical novel ''Triple Platinum'', which was published by Dell Books in 1980. He is the recipient of the 1986 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lily Tomlin
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. Tomlin started her career in stand-up comedy and sketch comedy before transitioning her career to acting across stage and screen. In a career spanning over fifty years, Tomlin has received numerous accolades, including seven Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, two Tony Awards, and a nomination for an Academy Award. She was also awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014 and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2017. Tomlin started her career as a stand-up comedian as well as performing off-Broadway during the 1960s. Her breakout role was on the variety show ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'' from 1969 until 1973. Her signature role, which was written by her then-partner (now wife) Jane Wagner, was in the show '' The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe'', which opened on Broadway in 1985 and earned Tomlin the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kenny Nolan
Kenneth "Kenny" Nolan (born September 30, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter from Los Angeles. He is best remembered for the 1976–77 song " I Like Dreamin'", which he wrote and performed; it reached No. 3 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and No. 4 on the Easy Listening chart. He wrote " Swing Your Daddy", which became a 1975 hit for Jim Gilstrap, reaching No.4 in the UK Singles Chart and No.10 on the American ''Billboard'' Black Music chart of that year. Nolan also co-wrote several hits with Bob Crewe, including Frankie Valli's "My Eyes Adored You" and Labelle's "Lady Marmalade." Both of these hit songs hit #1 on Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 Chart in March of 1975. Of note, "My Eyes Adored You" hit #1 on March 22, 1975 and the very next week, "Lady Marmalade" hit #1 on March 29, 1975. This marked one of the few times in chart history when the same songwriter(s) had back-to-back hits at #1 (John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles, Holland-Dozier-Holland of Motown fam ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |