01. Love Is Here To Stay 
02. The Look Of Love          play
03. Where Do I Begin? (Theme From “Love Story”) 
04. I Only Have Eyes For You 
05. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love 
06. The Twelfth Of Never 
07. We’ve Only Just Begun 
08. Nevertheless 
09. Love Me Tender            play
10. You Made Me Love You 
11. It Could Happen To You 
12. How Deep Is The Ocean? 
13. When You Were Sweet Sixteen (1898)

Smooth crooner Barry Manilow is best known for hits like "Mandy," "I Write the Songs," "Looks Like We Made It," and the tropical pop-disco smash "Copacabana." Though he is often derided by critics, it is estimated thought that he has sold around 75 million records in his four-decade career.

Born 1943 in Brooklyn, singer-songwriter and producer Barry Manilow spent his late teens performing on the local circuit. He studied at the New York College of Music and Julliard. While working at CBS to pay his way through college, he met director Bo Herrod who gave him his first break, as a result of which he ended up writing the score for The Drunkard. He turned his musical talents to jingle writing, including adverts for KFC, Pepsi, and McDonald's among his list of credits. After a spell as musical arranger for The Ed Sullivan Show he teamed up with Bette Midler for the first of many collaborations.

His own first album Barry Manilow was not a big commercial success, but the follow-up, Barry Manilow II, which included the single "Mandy," went to #1 and took his name worldwide.

The 1978 film Foul Play used the track "Copacabana" from the album Even Now, which proved so popular that it was used again as the basis of a TV musical and a stage musical which ran for two years on London's West End.

He was introduced to younger fans through American Idol where a Manilow-esque contender, Clay Aiken, received his seal of approval. He has been involved with a number of philanthropic ventures, including funding a scholarship at the UCLA, raising money for the American Red Cross in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and doing a benefit concert for the Hurricane Hugo-hit Charleston, South Carolina, after which the Mayor declared a Barry Manilow Day.

He released his greatest hits album, Ultimate Manilow, in 2002. In 2004, he became the in-house performer at the Las Vegas Hilton with a contract signed until 2008. During this period he also released an extremely popular series of CDs featuring popular music from decades of the 20th century, beginning with "The Greatest Songs of the Fifties," and concluding with the 1980s. For his 1970s installment, he included a few re-interpreted, mostly acoustic arrangements of his own biggest hits from the period, He received very rare, nearly unanimous approval for these tracks from the critics who usually granted him faint praise.

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1. You’ve Got A Friend (With Melissa Manchester) (05:06)
2. Hey Mambo (With Kid Creole And The Coconuts) (02:55)
3. Let Me Be Your Wings (With Debra Byrd) (03:21)
4. Cherish / Windy (With The Association) (04:22)
5. Look To The Rainbow (With Barbara Cook) (04:33)
6. Islands In The Stream (With Reba McEntire) (04:08)
7. Big City Blues (With Mel Torm) (Featuring Gerry Mulligan) (04:15)
8. On A Slow Boat To China (With Bette Midler) (02:32)
9. Run To Me (With Dionne Warwick) (04:37)
10. Summertime (With Diane Schuur) (Featuring Stan Getz) (04:18)
11. Sincerely / Teach Me Tonight (With Phyllis McGuire) (03:20)		play
12. Blue (With Sarah Vaughan) (04:21)						play
13. Now And Forever (With Sheena Easton) (04:13)
14. I Won’t Be The One To Let Go (With Barbra Streisand) (04:42)
15. The Last Duet (With Lily Tomlin) (04:02)

Barry Manilow, właśc. Barry Alan Pincus (ur. 17 czerwca 1943 w Nowym Jorku), amerykański piosenkarz i autor tekstów najbardziej znanym z takich nagrań jak I Write the Songs, Mandy, Weekend in New England i Copacabana. Manilow sprzedał ponad 75 milionów płyt na całym świecie. W 1978 pięć jego albumów znalazło się równocześnie na liście bestsellerów; taki sukces osiągnęli tylko Frank Sinatra i Johnny Mathis. Jego single znalazły się na liście Billboard Hot 100, a albumy pokryły się wielokrotnie platyną dzięki czemu został nazwany numerem jeden Radio & Records w kategorii artysta adult contemporary i zdobył American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist przez trzy kolejne lata (1978, 1979, 1980). Wielu znanych muzyków uznało talent Barry'ego Manilowa, włączając Sinatrę, który w latach 70. widział w nim swego następcę. W 1988 Bob Dylan spotkał Manilowa na przyjęciu, uściskał go i powiedział, "Nie przestawaj robić tego co robisz. Inspirujesz nas." Arsenio Hall przedstawił Barry'ego Manilowa jako swojego ulubionego gościa w The Arsenio Hall Show i poprosił publiczność o szacunek dla jego pracy.

Barry Manilow (born June 17, 1943) is an American singer–songwriter, musician, arranger, producer, conductor, and performer, best known for such recordings as "Could It Be Magic", "Mandy", "Can't Smile Without You", and "Copacabana (At the Copa)."

In 1978, five of his albums were on the best-selling charts simultaneously, a feat equalled only by Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Mathis. He has recorded a string of Billboard hit singles and multi-platinum albums that have resulted in his being named Radio & Records number one Adult Contemporary artist and winning three straight American Music Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist. Several well-known entertainers have given Manilow their "stamp of approval," including Sinatra, who was quoted in the 1970s regarding Manilow, "He's next." In 1988, Bob Dylan stopped Manilow at a party, hugged him and said, "Don't stop what you're doing, man. We're all inspired by you."

As well as producing and arranging albums for other artists, such as Bette Midler and Dionne Warwick, Manilow has written songs for musicals, films, and commercials. Since February 2005, he had been the headliner at the Las Vegas Hilton, and had performed hundreds of shows before he called time on his 5-year association, performing his last show on December 30, 2009. From March 2010, he has headlined at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. He has sold more than 80 million records worldwide.

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