![]() He stopped recording his own songs in the '80s, but he continued performing, and in September, he broke Elvis' record of performances in Las Vegas. ![]() Oi.ĭAVIES: Before Manilow started writing and singing pop songs he wrote commercial jingles, and he was Bette Midler's first music director. Mercifully, when you're in harmony, you're in a trance. Thin, we were, poor as sin in Berlin, we were. Suddenly a little harmony and the poverty's not so bad. Did we have harmony? But that's just about all we had. Here's a bit of the title song from the musical. It's based on the true story of the Comedian Harmonists, an all-male group who were international stars in Germany before World War II, but the group was banned by the Nazis. He had 25 Top 40 hits between 1974 and '83, including "Mandy," "I Write The Songs," "Trying To Get The Feeling Again," "Looks Like We Made It," "Can't Smile Without You," "Copacabana" and "I Made It Through The Rain." Now, at the age of 80, he's got a musical on Broadway titled "Harmony." Manilow wrote the music and his longtime collaborator Bruce Sussman, the lyrics. ![]() ![]() Barry Manilow is one of the most successful pop performers of the '70s and early '80s. ![]()
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