This didn’t really help. Just two of Manilow’s top 40 hits were left off his 2005 two-CD collection, The Essential Barry Manilow. “Oh Julie” was one of them. This was the second of Manilow ...

In 2008, Manilow recorded an acoustic version of the song for his album The Greatest Songs of the Seventies. Barry Manilow wrote the entire song by himself. Considered a positive creative song ...

has 17 Top 20 singles -- 15 of which hit No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart -- dating back to his debut album in 1973. That came after Manilow (born Barry Allen Pincus in New York and raised in ...

Barry Manilow would have been quite content to arrange or even produce the songs that make the whole ... James Taylor,” quips Manilow, who has 52 Top-40 singles and 13 number ones to his credit.