Corrections:
1.
Obviously he sings his own backup vocals on
quite a lot of his studio songs. I have found quite a few examples of this, too
many to remember and list right here.
2.
He does sing through other letters than just Ms
and Ns. He sings through his Ls and his
Gs and practically any vowel, especially considering he sings the word you
quite a lot.
Confusion:
Why do I love him so much? Why do I think he’s sooo cute/handsome? He is not a traditionally good looking man. And yet I find him so beautiful and pleasant to look at in so many of his iterations! I love “Baby Barry” from the late seventies. And I also adore his Parker Stevenson look from 1984. But then by the time 1998 rolls around, and he’s twenty years more mature than Baby Barry, I swoon over that 1998 version of him as well. And even at the age of 59, when he taped the “Ultimate Manilow” TV special, he still looked damn cute! And definintely did not look almost 60 and yet also had not been ruined by plastic surgery at all. And the next thing I am confused about, why do so many other women feel exactly the same way I do? I watch his audiences, especially on talk show appearances, and they go absolutely BANANAS for him! Why?
Why do I love him so much? Why do I think he’s sooo cute/handsome? He is not a traditionally good looking man. And yet I find him so beautiful and pleasant to look at in so many of his iterations! I love “Baby Barry” from the late seventies. And I also adore his Parker Stevenson look from 1984. But then by the time 1998 rolls around, and he’s twenty years more mature than Baby Barry, I swoon over that 1998 version of him as well. And even at the age of 59, when he taped the “Ultimate Manilow” TV special, he still looked damn cute! And definintely did not look almost 60 and yet also had not been ruined by plastic surgery at all. And the next thing I am confused about, why do so many other women feel exactly the same way I do? I watch his audiences, especially on talk show appearances, and they go absolutely BANANAS for him! Why?
Anyway, it’s been 8 months now of listening to almost
nothing but Barry at home, at work and in the car. The few times I put the
radio on instead of a Manilow CD, I find myself scanning through all the radio
stations looking for (but never finding) something from him. It turns out, the
one time of year it’s possible to hear a Manilow tune on the radio, is now.
Christmastime. So far I’ve heard him do Santa Claus is Coming to Town and Home
for the Holidays. The Santa one, I’m not even sure why I stopped the radio from
scanning when I heard a snippet. There were no vocals on the part I caught. But
something must have captured my attention because I started listening to it.
And when the vocals did eventually kick in, it still took me a few lines of the
song to realize who was singing. But onceI finally did realize it, I was in
indescribable joy.
I heard Home for the Holidays on the radio the day after
listening to it for the first time on YouTube, so I recognized it and knew to
stop on it, but I still got very VERY excited to be able to actually hear him
on the radio!
