Monday, March 27, 2006

Barry Manilow: The Greatest Songs of the Fifties

CML call number: CD/POPULAR/Manilow
Artist website:
http://www.manilow.com/
Contents: Moments to Remember, It's All in the Game, Unchained Melody, Venus, It's Not for Me to Say, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, Rags to Riches, Sincerely/Teach Me Tonight (duet with Phyllis McGuire), Are You Lonesome Tonight?, Young at Heart, All I Have to Do Is Dream, What a Diff'rence a Day Made, Beyond the Sea.
Mr. Manilow writes in the liner notes: "When [music executive Clive Davis] suggested this idea to me, I slapped my forehead and said, 'Why hasn't anyone thought of this idea?' … Being given the opportunity to co-produce, co-arrange and sing these rarely sung golden standards is a privilege. I hope they affect a new generation of listeners as deeply as they did those of us who were there."
Other Manilow works in our collection: Even Now (1986) and Ultimate Manilow (2002), both in the CD/POPULAR section; A Christmas Gift of Love (2002; CD/HOLIDAY); and a memoir, Sweet Life: Adventures on the Way to Paradise (1987; call number 784.54/Manilow).

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