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%%* SillyLoveSongs: Too many to name here.

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%%* SillyLoveSongs: Too They're considered a specialty of his, and many to name here.of Barry Manilow's most popular songs stand out as extraordinarily sentimental even by the standards of a genre of music that runs on sentimentality.

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* ''Night Songs'' (2014)
* ''My Dream Duets'' (2014)



%%* MurderBallad: "Copacabana"

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%%* * MurderBallad: "Copacabana""Copacabana" is one. In the second verse, Rico and Tony fight over Lola, and then there's a gunshot...
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* BigApplesauce: "New York City Rhythm", "Copacabana (At The Copa)", "Avenue C", "Brooklyn Blues", and of course the ConceptAlbum ''Here At The Mayflower'', which is about life in a New York apartment building.

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* BigApplesauce: "New York City Rhythm", "Copacabana (At The Copa)", "Avenue C", "Brooklyn Blues", and of course the ConceptAlbum ''Here At The Mayflower'', which is about life in a New York apartment building. His most recent album, ''This is My Town: Songs of New York'', is also very much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
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Today he has settled into a kind of wry awareness of his DiscoDan image; he has described himself in recent concerts as "the Music/JustinBeiber of the 1970s."

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Today he has settled into a kind of wry awareness of his DiscoDan image; he has described himself in recent concerts as "the Music/JustinBeiber Music/JustinBieber of the 1970s."
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Today he has settled into a kind of wry awareness of his DiscoDan image.

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Today he has settled into a kind of wry awareness of his DiscoDan image.
image; he has described himself in recent concerts as "the Music/JustinBeiber of the 1970s."
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* ''This Is My Town: Songs of New York'' (2017)
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* AwardBaitSong: "Let Me Be Your Wings" from WesternAnimation/Thumbelina1994 and "Now and Forever" from WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: ''15 Minutes''.

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* MurderBallad: "Copacabana"

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* %%* MurderBallad: "Copacabana"



* RockstarSong: "It's a Miracle".

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* %%* RockstarSong: "It's a Miracle".



* SillyLoveSongs: Too many to name here.
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* %%* SillyLoveSongs: Too many to name here.
* %%* StuckOnBandAidBrand: The {{Trope Maker|s}}.
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-->-- '''Music/OzzyOsbourne''' on his primal fear, ''[[Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien]]''

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-->-- '''Music/OzzyOsbourne''' on his primal fear, ''[[Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien]]''
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-->-- '''Music/OzzyOsbourne''' on his primal fear, ''[[Series/LateNight Late Night with Conan O'Brien]]''

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-->-- '''Music/OzzyOsbourne''' on his primal fear, ''[[Series/LateNight Late Night with Conan O'Brien]]''
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* SelfDemonstratingArticle: "[[http://www.mediafire.com/?8xum80w71wz9vme I Really Do Write The Songs]]". Manilow [[LampshadeHanging hangs lampshades all over the place]] with this one. Served with delicious side dishes of SelfParody and SelfDeprecation, with a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} at the very end for dessert. A little taste:

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* SelfDemonstratingArticle: "[[http://www.mediafire.com/?8xum80w71wz9vme "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei1oE7u58l8 I Really Do Write The Songs]]". Manilow [[LampshadeHanging hangs lampshades all over the place]] with this one. Served with delicious side dishes of SelfParody and SelfDeprecation, with a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} at the very end for dessert. A little taste:
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* ''Here ar the Mayflower'' (2001)

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* ''Here ar at the Mayflower'' (2001)
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* ReferencedBy: The Moneypenny played by Creator/CarolineBliss in the ''Film/JamesBond'' film ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' is a fan of him and tries to lure Bond at her home to show him her collection.
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* ReferencedBy: The Moneypenny played by Creator/CarolineBliss in the ''Film/JamesBond'' film ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' is a fan of him and tries to lure Bond at her home to show him her collection.
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I've listened to "Bobbie Lee", and I would NOT describe its melody as "cheerful" or it's mood as poppy. If anything, it's far more rock-based than most of Barry's other songs.


** "Bobbie Lee", an upbeat, cheerful, poppy song about a teenage runaway who ends up living on the streets and prostituting herself:

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** "Bobbie Lee", an upbeat, cheerful, poppy energetic song about a teenage runaway who ends up living on the streets and prostituting herself:
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Tomorrow, she's gonna be in the movies,.\\

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Tomorrow, she's gonna be in the movies,.\\movies,\\
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* LocationSong: "Copacabana", a MurderBallad taking place In a [[BigApplesauce New York City]] nightclub of the same name.

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* LocationSong: "Copacabana", a MurderBallad taking place In in a [[BigApplesauce New York City]] nightclub of the same name.
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* DownerEnding: "Copacabana" - Tony, the love of Lola’s life is 'lost' (either killed or incarcerated depending on how you read the lyrics) and Lola has become a aged senile alcoholic.

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* DownerEnding: "Copacabana" - Tony, the love of Lola’s life is 'lost' (either killed or incarcerated depending on how you read the lyrics) and Lola has become a an aged senile alcoholic.
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*** Particularly peculiar was when the song was acted out by muppets on ''The Muppet Show'' when Liza Minelli was the guest star.

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*** Particularly peculiar was when the song was acted out by muppets on ''The Muppet Show'' when Liza Minelli Creator/LizaMinnelli was the guest star.
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* DownerEnding: "Copacabana" - Tony, the love of Lola’s life is 'lost' (either killed or incarcerated depending on how you read the lyrics) and Lola has become a aged senile alcoholic.
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* TheForties: "Copacabana", which takes place in the late '40s, except for the ending, which is in the '70s.

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-->'''Barry''': ''You [[YourCheatingHeart sneak]]''

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-->'''Barry''': ''You [[YourCheatingHeart sneak]]''sneak''



* YourCheatingHeart: "Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed?", "Starting Again", and countless others.
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Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus, June 17, 1943) is an American singer/songwriter famous for [[NeverLiveItDown composing every song ever written]], including hits such as "Mandy"[[note]]actually written by Scott English and Richard Kerr[[/note]], "Can't Smile Without You"[[note]] written by Christian Arnold, David Martin, and Geoff Morrow[[/note]], "I Write the Songs"[[note]] written by Bruce Johnston, longtime member of Music/TheBeachBoys[[/note]], "Looks Like We Made It"[[note]]written by Richard Kerr and Will Jennings[[/note]] and "Copacabana"[[note]]in fact co-written by Manilow, along with Jack Feldman and Bruce Sussman[[/note]].

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Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus, June 17, 1943) 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American singer/songwriter famous for [[NeverLiveItDown composing every song ever written]], including hits such as "Mandy"[[note]]actually written by Scott English and Richard Kerr[[/note]], "Can't Smile Without You"[[note]] written by Christian Arnold, David Martin, and Geoff Morrow[[/note]], "I Write the Songs"[[note]] written by Bruce Johnston, longtime member of Music/TheBeachBoys[[/note]], "Looks Like We Made It"[[note]]written by Richard Kerr and Will Jennings[[/note]] and "Copacabana"[[note]]in fact co-written by Manilow, along with Jack Feldman and Bruce Sussman[[/note]].
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* ''Here Comes the Night'' (1981)

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* ''Here Comes the Night'' (1981)(1982)
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* [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas Album]]: Three of 'em.

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* [[ChristmasEpisode [[ChristmasSongs Christmas Album]]: Three of 'em.
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* ''Tryin' To Get The Feeling'' (1975)
* ''This One's For You'' (1976)

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* ''Tryin' To to Get The the Feeling'' (1975)
* ''This One's For for You'' (1976)



* ''Here Comes The Night'' (1981)

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* ''Here Comes The the Night'' (1981)



* ''Singin' With The Big Bands'' (1994)

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* ''Singin' With The with the Big Bands'' (1994)



* ''Here At The Mayflower'' (2001)

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* ''Here At The ar the Mayflower'' (2001)



* ''In The Swing Of Christmas'' (2007)

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* ''In The the Swing Of of Christmas'' (2007)

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