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Music & Passion: The Best Of Barry Manilow

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A very nice collection of many of Barry's familiar and best recordings, and a few others, including 1 that was new to me. Released in 2008, there are 20 tracks in total, much better than the 12 tracks B has been doing lately. (I like the longer CDs--don't have to change them so often.) Total album time is about 1 hour and 20 minutes. The tracks below are not listed in the same order as on the CD.

The beautiful Barry favorites:

1)Can't Smile Without You (3:13)

2)I Write the Songs (3:52)

3)Mandy (3:19)

4)Could It be Magic (4:16)

5)Copacabana (At the Copa) (3:57)

6)Weekend in New England (3:44)

7)The Old Songs (4:40)

8)Somewhere in the Night (3:23) (*sigh*- such a sexy song)

The slightly less known Barry recordings, but each are on other Barry albums:

9)Bermuda Triangle (3:47) (from "Live in Britain" and a few other CDs--a cute little song about going on a trip/holiday to Bermuda)

10)I Wanna Do It With You (3:37) (he he--a naughty little song from "B.M. Greatest Hits, The Platinum Collection" º

11)Let's Hang On (3:06) (from "B.M. Greatest Hits V3")

12)You've Got a Friend (Duet with Melissa Manchester) (4:44) (from "Greatest Songs of the '70s")

13)Strangers in the Night (3:07) (from the "Manilow Sings Sinatra" and "Barry Manilow Classics" and "Barry Manilow Complete Collection")

14)Stay (3:53) (from "Barry Manilow Classics")"Stay. . .why don't you stay with me tonight. . ." beautiful song. *sigh*

15)Read 'em and Weep (5:26) (from "Barry Manilow Classics" and "Barry Manilow Complete Collection" and "B. M. Greatest Hits V3")

16)Can't Take My Eyes Off You (3:47) (from "Songs of the '60s")

17)Unchained Melody (3:42) (from "Songs of the '50s" and "Beautiful Ballads and Love Songs") (If you don't remember The Righteous Brothers, I bet you remember the movie "Ghost")

18)Memory (4:55) (from "Live on Broadway" and "The Essential Barry Manilow")

19)Lonely Together (4:20) I didn't recognize the title until I heard the song, from "B. M. Greatest Hits The Platinum Collection")

(Some of these songs are on even more albums but I got tired of listing them all.)

The song that was new to me:

20)Everytime You Go Away (4:13) (The cover said it is previously unreleased--A nice little easy-listening type beat, kind of a slow song with a little beat. B also does that little track-overlay thing towards the end of the song where he records multiple layers of his voice.)I love this song.

Again, this is a very nice collection and has a nice length of about 80 minutes. (I jus niver git tared a listnin to that thar boy sing.)

If you are a Barry Manilow fan, you are happy to listen to him sing the phone book - good selection of old hits plus mix from his latest decades series he has done....no recording of any type can ever duplicate his passion and enthusiasm he shows when performing live - one downfall of this CD, it seems to be not as high of quality as say, his '80's CD - this one seems to need more volume when playing - it's a little muted on many of the selections - sure wish he would re-release "If I Should Love Again" on one of these best of his hits....

wow what can we say that hasn't already been said about this: amazing, superstar, performer all the old favourites are on here a must for all the Fanilows and newebies out there, i dare you not to sing along and dance with the Amazing Mr Barry Manilow !!!!!!!!!!!