Barry Manilow Interview (August 9, 1975)

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Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter with a career that spans seven decades. His hit recordings include "Could It Be Magic", "Looks Like We Made It", "Mandy", "I Write the Songs", "Can't Smile Without You", and "Copacabana (At the Copa)".
He has recorded and released 51 Top 40 singles on the Adult Contemporary Chart, including 13 that hit number one, 28 that appeared within the top ten, and 36 that reached the top twenty. Manilow has released 13 platinum and six multi-platinum albums.[2] Although not a favorite artist of music critics,[3] Manilow has been praised by his peers in the recording industry, including Frank Sinatra, who was quoted in the 1970s as saying, "He's next."[4]
As well as producing and arranging albums for himself and other artists, Manilow has written and performed songs for musicals, films, and commercials for corporations such as McDonald's, Pepsi-Cola, and Band-Aid. He has been nominated for a Grammy Award (winning once) as a producer, arranger and performer a total of fifteen times (and in every decade) from 1973 to 2015.[5] He has also produced Grammy-nominated albums for Bette Midler, Dionne Warwick, Nancy Wilson, and Sarah Vaughan.[6] Manilow has sold more than 85 million records as a solo artist worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists.[7][8]
Early life[edit]
Barry Manilow was born Barry Alan Pincus on June 17, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York,[9] the son of Edna Manilow and Harold Pincus (who went by his own stepfather's surname, his birth surname being Keliher).[10][11] His maternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his paternal grandfather was Jewish, though his grandmother was a Catholic of Irish descent.[12] His Irish roots trace back to Limerick, Ireland.[13]
Manilow grew up in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn and graduated in 1961 from the now-defunct Eastern District High School.[14] While in high school, he met Susan Deixler, and they later married for a short time.[15] He enrolled in the City College of New York, where he briefly studied before entering the New York College of Music.[16] He also worked at CBS while he was a student in order to pay his expenses. Afterwards, he studied musical theater at Juilliard Performing Arts School.[16]

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@user-gn9vu7wn7t 4 ай бұрын

What a beautiful, talented, and amazing man Barry manilow was in the 70's and still is. Kids of today, see this is real talent not the manufactured American Idol noise you listen to today.

@hectorrivera66 4 ай бұрын

Very talented man. His St Farm jingle is still being heard today. Probably one of the most recognizable jingles of all time.

@PamelaRP Жыл бұрын

Fantastic interview and Barry was so hot here. I love you very very much Barry.

@betsybasile-n6d Ай бұрын

Barry....When you did this interview even though we were so young, your voice sounds so much deeper than in you later things. I do love the way you looked in 1975. You were fabulous even then with the piano and your voice. So clear and smooth and romantic. I try to think how you felt at that time. I like that you wanted to bring back a lyric that was more sophisticated and that is what we now at 77 just a couple of years younger than you. We were looking for something fresh, we were getting tired of the Motown sound and you were that style and sound we were looking for and I have followed your career very closely since 1974. Loved you then and love you now even though we both are just a bit? older.HAHA~~~~~~~~~Betsy Basile

@betsybasile-n6d Ай бұрын

Barry...I love to watch you in an interview as we were both very young and you looked very handsome. I am only 3 years younger that you so many years have gone by and we are both much older. You were very great when you were young and your voice was really smooth and you were very good making the pop songs much better than they ever were. Your talent excelled in every part of the musical field and I am d=so glad, as I was getting tired of Motown and you were our answer Love you always and forever.................Betsy Basile

@123Rockchild 3 ай бұрын

This was an interesting interview.

@betsybasile-n6d 5 ай бұрын

Barry......A great interview from 1975 that I had never seen before. You are so great with doing anything. I have loved you since 1974 when your career was taking off, although the critics were really mean to you, but you certainly have shown them. Love you always~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Dancing Queen BB 1965

@betsybasile-n6d 2 ай бұрын

1975 and I have not found this one for 3 months. I mean sometimes these videos disappear for awhile until I find them again. State Farm is one of my favorites. Only got paid $500 for that and then Mc Donald's that you sang but did not write. Love this interview, Barry and 1974 and 1975 are two of my favorite years with your music. Thanks for this one. Love you Barry..........Betsy Basile

@clarabautista9854 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing 😊😊😊 love you barry manilow great

@blueunicorn8665 16 күн бұрын

In that interview he was 32 years old and now at 81, still singing 🥰

@mainorramirez6610 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@johnjullien Жыл бұрын

Talented Man.

@jacquelineleubin5004 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 💯❤

@user-qg4ew2oe5e 3 ай бұрын

FANTASTIC INTERVIEW 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@alanfisher2121 Жыл бұрын

I thought was crazy for years, but I DO remember the radio commercial saying "Barry Manilow for Kodak" with the song "Times of your Life." Then it became a hit for Paul Anka, but as a HUGE Manilow fan, I never forgot Barry doing it first!

@ApricotRse Жыл бұрын

Paul Anka wrote "The Times of Your Life" which indeed began as a jingle for Kodak which became so popular that Anka fleshed out into a longer song with additional lyrics and recorded as a successful pop single. Funny, but I don't remember hearing Barry sing it as a jingle, announced or otherwise.

@alanfisher2121 Жыл бұрын

@@ApricotRse Paul Anka SANG it, he didn't write it... Roger Nichols and William Lane wrote it. Yes, it was a Kodak jingle when both Manilow and Anka did it.

@ApricotRse Жыл бұрын

@@alanfisher2121 Thanks for the correction and my apologies. I thought that Anka wrote it. I recalled him telling the story of how the song started out as just a snippet enough for a jingle and that popular public reaction drove a full length song to be written and recorded for the radio. I thought that Anka wrote as well as recorded it, but clearly I was wrong.

@eugeniacuizon3900 Жыл бұрын

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@betsybasile-n6d Ай бұрын

Great interview Barry. I found this one again. It disappears at times, but I enjoy it as you are as personable in the first years of your career as you are now (2024).. I am only a bit younger than you and I have seen you go from critics jabbing at you to total Entertainer Stardom. I have loved every minute of anything you do. When I found the KZbin videos, I almost fainted and back then there were not a lot of them, but they sure are now. My Playlist is almost 25 pages long and it started out at 4. Thank you Barry. Love to you always......................Betsy Basile