The entertainer turns 80 on Saturday. To mark the occasion, here are all 25 of his singles that made the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, fearlessly ranked by an OG Fanilow.
is more modest in scale than many of Manilow’s Big Ballads – and is all the more appealing for that reason. If you don’t listen to the lyrics and just react to the title, you might think this is a song about a couple celebrating their relationship. Actually, as Jennings has said, “It is a rather sad and ironic lyric about making it apart and not together.”
Manilow’s first two No. 1 singles, “Mandy” and “I Write the Songs,” were both the first singles from those albums. This was the third single from, which suggests that its success was a surprise. Manilow was one of just three artists to top the Hot 100 in 1975, 1976 and 1977. The others: Bee Gees and KC and the Sunshine Band. was on the B side, making this quite possibly Manilow’s strongest double-sided single.which Manilow produced and arranged.
Given the way his own songs often took a back seat in singles selection to outside songs, there’s a certain poetic justice that one of Manilow’s own compositions became his most famous song.album,” Sussman wrote in“‘Copacabana’ surprised everyone – certainly us, and especially Arista Records, for they were faced with the first of Barry’s hits that was forced off an album.”
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