Damn all of you ! Barry Manilow WILL get his due Credit ! It is my mission !

So this is your answer to the "2 Chainz G.O.A.T." thread?

Barry Manilow is somewhere between lousy and mediocre.

Awesome thread pimp.

Don't forget Ready To Take A Chance Again. Great way to start the movie Foul Play.

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Don't forget Ready To Take A Chance Again. Great way to start the movie Foul Play.

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The great mystery of The Modern Era:

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If you know the story - and you know you do - we have Lola and her boyfriend Tony who both work at the Copacabana. Rico turns up, starts flirting with Lola and the boys fight. Then "there was blood and a single gunshot, but just who shot who?"

This is the part I don't get. I mean, it works out as a lovely rhyme but it really shouldn't be that difficult to work out who shot who! There was a single gunshot and we know from the song that Lola "lost her Tony" so surely Rico shot Tony. Another possibility could be that both guys ended up dead, in which case the body that has the GSW was shot by the other one (and in that case, how did the non-shot person die? Punched to death?)

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I always enjoyed his music and still listen from time to time on you tube.

Barry Manilow also wrote a good number of commercial jingles in the 70s and 80s.

I support your mission, pimp.

In tribute to the late Dick Clark, I give you...

Bandstand Boogie - Manilow, Sussman, & Albertine



We're goin' hoppin', we're goin' hoppin' today
Where things are poppin' the Philadelphia way
We're gonna drop in on all the music they play
On the Bandstand

We're goin' swingin', we're gonna swing in the crowd
And we'll be clingin' and floatin' high as a cloud
The phones are ringin', my mom and dad are so proud
I'm on Bandstand

And I'll jump and hey, I may even show 'em my handstand
Because I'm on, because I'm on the American Bandstand
When we dance real slow I'll show all the guys in the grandstand
What a swinger I am, I am on American Bandstand

We're goin' hoppin', we're goin' hoppin' today
Where things are poppin' the Philadelphia way
We're gonna drop in on all the music they play
On the Bandstand

Bandstand, Bandstand, Bandstand
Bandstand, Bandstand, Bandstand

Hey I'm makin' my mark, gee, this joint is jumpin'
They made such a fuss just to see us arrive
Hey it's Mr.Dick Clark, what a place you've got here
Swell spot, the music's hot here, best in the east
Give it at least a seventy five

Now for all you Joe's, here goes my American handstand
Because I'm on, because I'm on the American Bandstand
As we dance real slow, I'm showin' the guys on the grandstand
That I like my girl but I love American Bandstand

The singers' croonin', he ain't the greatest but gee
My baby's swoonin' in front of all of TV
So if you tune in, you'll see my baby and me
On the Bandstand

And now we're hoppin' and we'll be hoppin' all day
Where things are poppin' the Philadelphia way
And you can drop in on all the music they play
On the Bandstand

And we'll rock and roll and Stroll on American
Lindy Hop and Slop, it's American
Tune in, I'm on, turn on, I'm in, I'm on today...
Bandstand

When I was a kid my mom would constantly play his music. To this day, I still remember most of the lyrics to his songs, even if I haven't heard them in years.

Anyway, I do enjoy hearing a Manilow song from time to time, but I'm no super fan.

Serious question, I always just assumed he was gay, but someone tried to tell me otherwise. What's the deal, is he gay or straight?

here they are all in one convenient video LINK