“Somewhere In The Night”.
Sung By: Barry Manilow.
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Barry Manilow at the premiere of
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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
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
Barry’s parents divorced when he was a
baby, and his mother’s family allowed no
further contact between Barry and his father.[13]
immigrants, and his paternal grandfather was Jewish.
His grandmother was Catholic of Irish descent.[14]
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,
Instead, Manilow wrote an entire original score.
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
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]
