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* [[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]].
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** "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''; [[wikipedia:Bruce Johnston|Bruce Johnston]] did.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: As above, see: [[Parental Abandonment]] below.
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* [[Everyone Is Christian At Christmas]]: ''Three'' Christmas albums, Barry? ''Really??''
* [[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, [[
*** 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].
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