Based on industry charts, Barry Manilow is the undisputed Number One Adult Contemporary Artist of all time, and his record sales exceed 50 million worldwide. He has written hundreds of songs and performed around the world, thrilling millions of fans, picking up a Grammy, an Emmy, Tony Awards, and an Oscar nomination along the way.
Barry Manilow began his solo career in 1974 which started an unprecedented string of 25 consecutive Top 40 hits, including “Mandy”, "Even Now," "This One's for You," "Weekend in New England," "I Write the Songs" and "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again." Four years later, five of Barry's albums were on the charts at the same time, a record equaled only by Frank Sinatra and Johnny Mathis.
On March 2, 1977, ABC-TV presented Barry's first network special, "The Barry Manilow Special," to an audience of 37 million. The show won the Emmy Award for "Best Special of the Year" and was followed a year later by his HBO special. In a dramatic departure in 1984, Barry fulfilled a lifelong dream of recording an original collection of "saloon tunes" with a classic all-star jazz ensemble, including Sarah Vaughan and Mel Torme. The "2:00 A.M. Paradise Café" album was universally heralded as his most important body of work.
In 1985, Barry released "Manilow" and made his acting debut in the CBS telefilm "Copacabana", a forties-era musical comedy based on his Grammy Award-winning song. Barry returned in 1987 with the release of "Swing Street". The album features a variety of legendary artists including Diane Schuur, Kid Creole and the Coconuts and Gerry Mulligan and contains an eclectic mix of pop and swing with jazz overtones.
Barry has consistently been one of the most successful touring artists in the music industry. His return to Broadway in 1989 for "Barry Manilow at the Gershwin" was praised by critics and played to standing-room-only houses for eight weeks. The show produced the "Barry Manilow: Live on Broadway" album and a home video, which stayed eight weeks at the number one spot on Billboard Magazine's music and videocassette charts.
Barry returned to the studio in 1994 to record his 28th album, a salute to the "big bands". Singin' with the Big Bands" chronicles some of the best known songs of the Big Band era, performed by the actual bands that made them famous, including the orchestras of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Dorsey, and Les Brown & His Band of Renown. It was quick to go Gold.
Manilow's 30th album, "Manilow Sings Sinatra," a tribute to the great songs that Frank Sinatra made famous, was released in the fall of 1998 and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. 
During February of 2000, Barry ventured to Nashville, Tennessee for the taping of two Manilow television specials. The first, "Manilow Country," featured the talent of country stars Trisha Yearwood, Lorrie Morgan, Kevin Sharp and Jaci Velasquez singing their favorite Manilow hits... many with a unique "country" twist. The special was TNN's first high definition broadcast and became one of TNN's highest rated concert specials. Manilow went back to the studio in 2005 to record a diverse collection of tracks from the 1950s with producer and music mogul Clive Davis. The resulting Greatest Songs of the Fifties, a labor of love, became a surprise hit and topped the charts in early 2006. A sequel, Greatest Songs of the Sixties, arrived at the end of that year. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide

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