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'''[[Barry Manilow]]''' (June 17, 1943 - ) is an American singer/songwriter best known for hits such as "Mandy", "Can't Smile Without You", "I Write The Songs" and "Copacabana".▼
 
Is the [[Trope Maker]] for [[Stuck Onon Band -Aid Brand]] (he [[He Also Did|wrote the jingle]]).▼
▲Barry Manilow is an American singer/songwriter best known for hits such as "Mandy", "Can't Smile Without You", "I Write The Songs" and "Copacabana".
 
▲Is the [[Trope Maker]] for [[Stuck On Band Aid Brand]] (he [[He Also Did|wrote the jingle]]).
 
=== Albums ===
 
{{Discography}}
* ''Barry Manilow'' (1973)
* ''Barry Manilow'' (1974)
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* ''15 Minutes'' (2011)
 
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* [[Tropacabana]]: Well, almost... Although his 1978 single [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=591d-XV5rEo "Copacabana"] spans thirty years or more, all of its action takes place in the titular club.
=== Barry Manilow's Work Shows Examples of the Following Tropes: ===
 
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* [[Anti Love Song]]: "The Last Duet" (duet with [[Laugh In|Lily Tomlin]]) is of the Comedy/Parody variety:▼
* [[Adorkable]]▼
{{quote| '''Lily''': ''You [[Jerkass|creep]]''<br />▼
▲* [[Anti -Love Song]]: "The Last Duet" (duet with [[Laugh In|Lily Tomlin]]) is of the Comedy/Parody variety:
''Into my heart,''<br />▼
▲{{quote| '''Lily''': ''You [[Jerkass|creep]]''<br />
''And make my heart burn.''<br />▼
▲''Into my heart,''<br />
'''Barry''': ''You [[Your Cheating Heart|sneak]]''<br />▼
''IntoAnd make my mind,heart burn.''<br />
▲'''Barry''': ''You [[Your Cheating Heart|sneak]]''<br />
''And make my head ache.''<br />
''Into my mind,''
'''Both''': ''[[Cannot Spit It Out|There are things I long to tell you]]''<br />
▲''And make my hearthead burnache.''<br />
'''Lily''': ''You're much [[Dumb Blonde|too blond]].''<br />
'''BarryBoth''': ''[[CatchingCannot SomeSpit ZsIt Out|YouThere snoreare things I long to tell you]].''<br />
'''BothLily''': ''Look, ItYou'sre timemuch to[[Dumb faceBlonde|too the musicblond]].''<br />
'''Barry''': ''Bye[[Catching bye!Some Zs|You snore]].''<br />
'''LilyBoth''': ''DonLook, It'ts [[Stocktime Soundto Effects|slamface the door]]!music.''<br />
'''Barry''': ''Bye bye!''
''And I don't want,''<br />▼
'''BarryLily''': ''I donDon't want,[[Stock Sound Effects|slam the door]]!''<br />
'''Lily''':And ''I don't want.,''<br />
'''Barry''': ''I don't want,''<br />
'''BothLily''': ''[[Finishing Each Others Sentences|No, I don't want your flowers anymore]]!.'' }}
▲''And'Barry''': ''I don't want,''<br />
'''Both''': ''[[Finishing Each Other's Sentences|No, I don't want your flowers anymore]]!'' }}
* [[Audience Participation Song]]: Manilow picks a girl out of the audience to sing "Can't Smile Without You" with him.
* [[The Beard]]: Long-time friend Linda Allen spent ''decades'' masquerading as Manilow's on-again/off-again live-in girlfriend. However, Manilow revealed in 2017 that he was gay -- and had been in a relationship with his manager Garry Kief (whom he married in 2014) since 1978.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't refer to Manilow's fans as "[[Will and Grace|Fanilows]]". Just... ''[[Beware the Nice Ones|don't]]''.▼
* [[Big Applesauce]]: "New York City Rhythm", "Copacabana (At The Copa)", "Avenue C", "Brooklyn Blues", and of course the [[Concept Album]] ''Here At The Mayflower'', which is about life in a New York apartment building.
* [[Blue Eyes]]: According to people who have met him in [[Real Life]], they are [[Up to Eleven|startlingly blue]].▼
* [[Break the Cutie]]: See: [[Parental Abandonment]] below.▼
* [[Break Up Song]]: "Lay Me Down", "I Was A Fool (To Let You Go)", and many, ''many'' others.
* [[Broken Record]]: "Sweet Heaven (I'm In Love Again)" is quite repetitive.
* [[Christmas Episode|Christmas Album]]: Three of 'em.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: For reasons known only to himself, Manilow sometimes chooses to present himself as such. [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Don't be fooled]].▼
* [[Concept Album]]: ''Here At The Mayflower'', and ''15 Minutes'', which is about the perils of fame.
* [[Cover Version]]: ''The Greatest Songs Of...'' albums. And ''Manilow Sings Sinatra''. And all those [[Christmas Episode|Christmas albums]].
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: As above, see: [[Parental Abandonment]] below.▼
* [[Cowboy Bebop At His Computer]]: Despite endless claims to the contrary by journalists who [[Did Not Do the Research]], Manilow did not write the famous "You Deserve A Break Today" McDonald's commercial, but he did sing the vocal on it.▼
** "I Write The Songs" is ''not'' Manilow going on an ego trip about what a fantastic songwriter he is. The "I" in the title actually refers to the spirt of Music, and in fact the very last line of the song is, "I am Music, and I write the songs". As Manilow himself is constantly at great pains to point out, he ''didn't even write that song''; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Johnston Bruce Johnston] did.▼
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: ''15 Minutes''.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: As only a native New Yorker can do it!▼
* [[Dumb Blonde|Dumb Blond]]: Averted pretty massively.▼
* [[Everyone Is Christian At Christmas]]: ''Three'' Christmas albums, Barry? ''Really??''
* [[Happily Married|Happily (Un)Married]]: In 2017, Manilow revealed that he was gay and had been in a relationship with his manager Garry Kief since 1978; the two were married in Florida in 2014.
* [[He Also Did]]: A jazz album, two swing albums, and two [[Concept Album|Concept Albums]].
** In the early [[The Seventies|Seventies]], he worked as a jingle writer for commercials, and wrote several famous ones such as the "Like A Good Neighbor" jingle for State Farm Insurance. As noted above, he also sang the vocal on the famous "You Deserve A Break Today" McDonald's commercial, [[CowboyMedia BebopResearch At His ComputerFailure|but he didn't write one bit of it]].
*** VSM (Very Strange Medley) with the commercials is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btj9tFcyeZQ here].
** In [[The Eighties]], ''[[Copacabana]]'' was made into a musical [[Made for TV Movie]] starring Manilow as Tony [[Meaningful Name|Starr]] and Annette O'Toole as Lola Lamar. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C24LoKMtz4 See it here].
* [[Hidden Depths]]: See: [[Ivy League for Everyone]] below.▼
* [[Intercourse Withwith You]]: Many, ''many'' times. "[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|I Wanna Do It With You]]", "I'm Your Man", and lots of others.
* [[Ivy League for Everyone]]: [http://www.juilliard.edu/ The Juilliard School].▼
* [[Jews Love to Argue]]: Manilow is on record as saying that his relationship with Bette Midler can basically be summarized thusly.▼
* [[Large Ham]]: Have you seen the page pic?
* [[Lonely Together]]: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-a7j1l3dt4 Lonely Together]". Fits this trope so well that it should possibly be the [[Trope Namer]].
{{quote| ''Wouldn't it be fine bein' lonely together?''<br />
''Wouldn't it be fine havin' a shoulder to share?''<br />
''You could tell me how he broke your heart,''<br />
''And I'll tell you how she broke mine.''<br />
''Then maybe later on [[Intercourse Withwith You|I could take you home]].''<br />
''Now, wouldn't it be sad bein' lonely all alone?'' }}
* [[Long Runner]]
▲* [[CowboyMedia BebopResearch At His ComputerFailure]]: Despite endless claims to the contrary by journalists who [[Did Not Do the Research]], Manilow did not write the famous "You Deserve A Break Today" McDonald's commercial, but he did sing the vocal on it.
* [[Money Dear Boy]]: ''Three'' [[Informed Judaism|Christmas albums]]????▼
▲** "I Write The Songs" is ''not'' Manilow going on an ego trip about what a fantastic songwriter he is. The "I" in the title actually refers to the spirtspirit of Music, and in fact the very last line of the song is, "I am Music, and I write the songs". As Manilow himself is constantly at great pains to point out, he ''didn't even write that song''; [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Johnston:Bruce Johnston|Bruce Johnston]] did.
▲* [[Money, Dear Boy]]: ''Three'' [[Informed Judaism|Christmas albums]]????
* [[Nice Jewish Boy]]▼
* [[American Accents|Noo Yawk Aksent]]▼
* [[Old Shame]]: Have you seen the page pic?
* [[Parental Abandonment]] / [[Disappeared Dad]]: Manilow's father left him and his mother when Manilow was two years old.▼
* [[Rockstar Song]]: "It's A Miracle".
* [[Self -Backing Vocalist]]: "One Voice", among others.
* [[Self -Demonstrating Article]]: "[http://www.mediafire.com/?8xum80w71wz9vme I Really Do Write The Songs]{{Dead link}}". Manilow [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs lampshades all over the place]] with this one. Served with delicious side dishes of [[Self -Parody]] and [[Take That Me]], with a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] at the very end for dessert. A little taste:
{{quote| ''You [[Self -Demonstrating Article|start off with the verse]]''<br />
''[[Self -Demonstrating Article|That's the part that tells you]]''<br />
''[[Self -Demonstrating Article|What the song is gonna be about]].''<br />
''You gotta grab 'em first''<br />
''[[The Stoner|Dope is good]], or [[Death Tropes|death is nice]]''<br />
''But [[Love Tropes|love is still the best way out]].''<br />
''[[Self -Demonstrating Article|And then you pad, and then you fill]],''<br />
''Or you [[Jewish Complaining|complain]], or get a chill.''<br />
''But most of all, you move along''<br />
''To the center of the song.'' }}
 
{{quote| ''Yes, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|that's the chorus]]''<br />
''Sing it for us''<br />
''Never overlook givin' it a hook''<br />
''You see [[Take That Me|sometimes I really do write the songs]]!'' }}
* [[Self -Deprecation]]: Constantly.▼
* [[The Seventies]]: And how!
* [[Seventies Hair]]: [http://image.lyricspond.com/image/b/artist-barry-manilow/album-barry-manilow-i/cd-cover.jpg Oh] [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAXyOVtZ0eE/R6IfCR6xjYI/AAAAAAAAFKk/fKvIyGnmPmg/s320/Barry%2BManilow.jpg yeah].▼
* [[Signature Song|Signature Songs]]s: "Copacabana", "Can't Smile Without You", "Mandy", and of course "I Write The Songs".
* [[Silly Love Songs]]: Too many to name here.
* [[Stuck Onon Band -Aid Brand]]: The [[Trope Maker]].
* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: "Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed?", "Starting Again", and countless others.
 
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=== Barry Manilow Shows Examples of the Following Tropes: ===
 
▲* [[Adorkable]]
▲* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't refer to Manilow's fans as "[[Will and Grace|Fanilows]]". Just... ''[[Beware the Nice Ones|don't]]''.
▲* [[Blue Eyes]]: According to people who have met him in [[Real Life]], they are [[Up to Eleven|startlingly blue]].
▲* [[Break the Cutie]]: See: [[Parental Abandonment]] below.
▲* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: For reasons known only to himself, Manilow sometimes chooses to present himself as such. [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Don't be fooled]].
▲* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: As above, see: [[Parental Abandonment]] below.
▲* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: As only a native New Yorker can do it!
▲* [[Dumb Blonde|Dumb Blond]]: Averted pretty massively.
* [[Happily Married|Happily (Un)Married]]: Manilow and longtime friend/girlfriend [http://www.manilow-world.com/media/DIR_363035/DIR_369472/Take~a~Break~1998-1.jpg Linda Allen] have been together since [[The Seventies|the early seventies]]. She's his girlfriend, except for when she isn't. They live together, except for when they don't. One assumes that [[Its a Long Story|It's Complicated]].
▲* [[Hidden Depths]]: See: [[Ivy League for Everyone]] below.
▲* [[Ivy League for Everyone]]: [http://www.juilliard.edu/ The Juilliard School].
▲* [[Jews Love to Argue]]: Manilow is on record as saying that his relationship with Bette Midler can basically be summarized thusly.
▲* [[Nice Jewish Boy]]
▲* [[American Accents|Noo Yawk Aksent]]
▲* [[Parental Abandonment]] / [[Disappeared Dad]]: Manilow's father left him and his mother when Manilow was two years old.
▲* [[Self Deprecation]]: Constantly.
▲* [[Seventies Hair]]: [http://image.lyricspond.com/image/b/artist-barry-manilow/album-barry-manilow-i/cd-cover.jpg Oh] [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAXyOVtZ0eE/R6IfCR6xjYI/AAAAAAAAFKk/fKvIyGnmPmg/s320/Barry%2BManilow.jpg yeah].
 
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