“Somewhere In The Night”. Sung By: Barry Manilow.

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Barry Manilow at the premiere of 

Bette Midler’s movie “The Rose”.

Date: 7 November 1979.

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Barry Manilow, born Barry Alan Pincus; 17 June 1943, 

is an American singer, songwriter and record producer 

with a career spanning over sixty years.

His hit recordings include "Could It Be Magic", "Looks Like 

We Made It", "Mandy", "I Write the Songs", "Ready to Take 

a Chance Again", "Can't Smile Without You", "Weekend 

in New England", and "Copacabana (At the Copa)".

Barry Manilow was born Barry Alan Pincus 

on 17 June 1943, in the Brooklyn borough 

of New York City.[10]

He is the son of Harold Kelliher, a truck driver 

of Irish descent, and Edna Manilow. Barry’s 

mother made his father change his name to 

Pincus, the name of a Jewish uncle of 

his father from the 1800s.[11][12][13]

Barry’s parents divorced when he was a 

baby, and his mother’s family allowed no 

further contact between Barry and his father.[13]

Barry’s maternal grandparents were Russian Jewish

immigrants, and his paternal grandfather was Jewish. 

His grandmother was Catholic of Irish descent.[14]

His Irish roots trace back to Limerick, Ireland.[15] 

Barry’s grandfather had his surname changed to

 Manilow a few weeks before Barry’s bar mitzvah.[13]

Manilow grew up in the Williamsburg 

neighbourhood of Brooklyn and graduated in 1961 

from the now-defunct Eastern District High School.[16]

In High School, he met Susan Deixler, and they 

later married for a short time.[17] He enrolled in the City College of New York, where he briefly studied 

before entering the New York College of Music.[18]

He also worked at CBS to pay his expenses while 

he was a student. Afterward he studied musical 

theatre at Juilliard Performing Arts School.[18]

In 1964, Manilow met Bro Herrod, a CBS director, 

who asked him to arrange some songs for a musical adaptation of the melodrama, The Drunkard.[19]

Instead, Manilow wrote an entire original score.

[20][21] Herrod used Manilow’s composition in the 

Off Broadway musical, which had an eight-year run 

at New York’s 13th Street Repertory Theatre.[22]

By 1969, Manilow was signed by Columbia/CBS Music vice-president and recording artist Tony Orlando, who went on to co-write with and produce Manilow and a group of studio musicians under the name “Featherbed” on Columbia Pictures’s Bell Records label.[28][32][33][34]

Bette Midler saw Manilow’s act in 1971 and chose him 

as her pianist at the Continental Baths in New York City 

that year,[35] and subsequently as a producer on 

both her debut and second record albums, The Divine 

Miss M (1972) and Bette Midler (1973).[36]

He also acted as her musical director on the tour mounted for her first album.[37] In 1973, Manilow was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for his production role on The Divine Miss M at the 16th Grammy Awards.[38] Manilow worked with Midler from 1971 to 1975.[39]