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Even Now (Barry Manilow Album)
''Even Now'' is the fifth studio album by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. It was recorded at A&M Studios in Hollywood, California, and released in 1978. The album reached triple platinum and spun off four hit singles in 1978 and early 1979: the title song, " Can't Smile Without You", " Copacabana" and " Somewhere in the Night" (which had previously been a hit in 1976 for Helen Reddy). ''Even Now'' peaked at No. 3 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200 album chart on April 8, 1978. At the 21st Annual Grammy Awards, Even Now was nominated for Album of the Year. The award, however, went to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Still, Barry Manilow won a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal for Copacabana (At The Copa). This remains Barry Manilow's only Grammy Award despite fifteen (15) other nominations. Track listing Side one #" Copacabana (At the Copa)" (Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, Jack Feldman) - 4:07 #" Somewhere in the Night" ( Richard Kerr, Will Jennings) - 3:26 #"A Linda Son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)
''Saturday Night Fever'' is the soundtrack double album (in 2 Long Play records) from the 1977 film '' Saturday Night Fever'' starring John Travolta. The soundtrack was released on November 15, 1977 by RSO Records. Prior to the release of '' Thriller'' by Michael Jackson, ''Saturday Night Fever'' was the best-selling album in music history, and still ranks among the best-selling soundtrack albums worldwide, with sales figures of over 40 million copies. In the United States, the album was certified 16× Platinum for shipments of at least 16 million units. The album stayed atop the charts for 24 straight weeks from January to July 1978 and stayed on ''Billboard''s album charts for 120 weeks until March 1980. Three singles from the album contributed by the Bee Gees—" How Deep Is Your Love", " Stayin' Alive" and " Night Fever"—along with Yvonne Elliman's " If I Can't Have You", all reached No. 1 in the US. In the UK, the album spent 18 consecutive weeks at No. 1. The album epit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrienne Anderson
Adrienne Anderson is an American songwriter, most notable for being the co-writer of "Could It Be Magic", among other Barry Manilow songs, as well as being the co-writer of signature songs for Dionne Warwick ("Déjà Vu") and Peter Allen (" I Go to Rio"). History Adrienne Anderson (maiden name Arzt, married Neal Anderson) has had a continuing association with Barry Manilow that goes back to his first album, released in July, 1973, and which featured their co-written "Could It Be Magic". Collaboration In late 1970 or very early 1971, Barry Manilow recorded Anderson's composition of "Amy". This was issued as Bell single 971 in February, 1971 as by Featherbed featuring Barry Manilow. This was the very first release of any kind for Manilow. Anderson and Manilow have co-written approximately thirty songs that have been recorded. Two of their best-known collaborations are "Could It Be Magic" and " Daybreak". When Manilow was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002, he made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Price (composer)
Michael Price is an English composer and pianist. Prior to establishing himself as a composer, he held a number of roles within the TV & film music field such as producer, arranger and music editor, much of which whilst working alongside acclaimed film score composer Michael Kamen. Personal life The son of physics and biology teachers, Price studied music at school, before starting his music career on the Tonmeister course at Surrey University, where he won the PRS composition prize in 1990. Early career After writing a number of scores for contemporary dance in his early 20s, he became Musical Director of DNA Dance and Music, whose projects included the arts council funded chamber opera "All the Garden Gold", based on the life of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Film and television Prices's first film work was in 1996, when he was invited by Michael Kamen to orchestrate and program electronic sounds for the Paramount film ''Event Horizon''. This led to a 5- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parker McGee
Jerry Parker McGee (born April 1951) is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter, originally from Meridian, Mississippi. Early life McGee was born in Meridian, Mississippi, one of three sons, to Albert R. "Pat" McGee, and Ruby McGee. He graduated from Meridian High School in 1969. Career McGee struggled early in his career, and at one point was living in a school bus parked behind a recording studio in Jackson, Mississippi. There he met Illinois-born producer Kyle Lehning, in 1972, which proved to be a turning point in their careers. Lehning, who had left Nashville earlier after failing to find work, returned there in 1973 to take a job as a studio engineer. McGee followed him there a short time later after the studio in Jackson had gone bankrupt, and began studio session work. Both Lehning and McGee continued their friendship, constantly exchanging ideas. In 1974, Tanya Tucker recorded McGee's "Depend on You" for her '' Lovin' and Learnin''' album. Not long afterwards, McGee signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where Do I Go From Here (England Dan & John Ford Coley Song)
"Where Do I Go from Here" is a song written by Parker McGee and first recorded by soft rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley in 1977 for their album '' Dowdy Ferry Road''. The following year, Barry Manilow recorded his version which featured on his 1978 album '' Even Now''. The song was also recorded by The Carpenters The Carpenters were an American vocal and instrumental duo consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter, Karen (1950–1983) and Richard Carpenter (musician), Richard Carpenter (born 1946). They produced a distinctive soft musical style, combining ... and released on the album '' Lovelines'' in 1989. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Where Do I Go from Here (England Dan and John Ford Coley song) 1977 songs England Dan & John Ford Coley songs The Carpenters songs Barry Manilow songs Song recordings produced by Ron Dante Songs written by Parker McGee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Will Jennings
Wilbur Herschel Jennings (June 27, 1944 – September 6, 2024) was an American lyricist. He was known for writing the songs " Up Where We Belong", " Higher Love", " Tears in Heaven" and "My Heart Will Go On". He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and won several awards including three Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards. Background Wilbur Herschel Jennings was born in Kilgore, Texas, on June 27, 1944, the youngest of three siblings. He had two sisters, Joyce and Gloria. He attended school near Tyler, Texas, in the Chapel Hill Independent School District. He graduated from Tyler Junior College and taught English at the college. In 1966, Jennings earned his B.A. from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas; he earned a master's degree the following year and taught English there. He taught at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire for three years, then moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1971 to begin his songwriting ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Kerr (songwriter)
Richard Buchanan Kerr (14 December 1944 – 8 December 2023) was an English singer-songwriter and composer, who co-wrote " Mandy", " Looks Like We Made It", and " Somewhere in the Night" (all of which became hit singles for Barry Manilow) and "I'll Never Love This Way Again", for Dionne Warwick. Life and career Richard Buchanan Kerr was born on 14 December 1944. Kerr began his education at Bedford School. After gaining an interest in music at school he went into songwriting. In the UK, he collaborated with musicians in the late 1960s and early 1970s such as Peter Green, Don Partridge and Scott English. The last pairing resulted in the song "Brandy", which English released in 1971. This song later become a worldwide hit under the title " Mandy" for Barry Manilow in 1974, although Don Partridge's "Blue Eyes" was Kerr's first hit as a songwriter. In 1976, Kerr's solo album, ''Richard Kerr'' (re-titled ''Somewhere in the Night'' in some territories) was released by Epic Records, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
