2.3.2010

BARRY MANILOW’S THE GREATEST LOVE SONGS OF ALL TIME
DEBUTS AT #5 ON THE BILLBOARD TOP 200
ANOTHER WINNING COLLABORATION WITH CLIVE DAVIS

Features Classic Favorites -  “The Look of Love,” "Love Me Tender,"
“Where Do I Begin (The Theme From “Love Story”)
“You Made Me Love You,” "I Only Have Eyes For You," “We’ve Only Just Begun,” and More!

(New York - February 3, 2010) Grammy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning recording artist Barry Manilow made magic happen once again and today celebrates the chart success of THE GREATEST LOVE SONGS OF ALL TIME which entered the Billboard Top 200 at # 5. THE GREATEST LOVE SONGS OF ALL TIME is Manilow’s 36th charting album, his 8th Top 5 album, and his 5th Top 5 debut in the last 10 years.

Entertainment Weekly calls THE GREATEST LOVE SONGS OF ALL TIME “a set of sumptuously arranged love songs” and stated that “his vocals have somehow grown silkier with age.” The New York Times concurs “His voice is still boyishly eager… conveys the same soothing message: ‘I am your friend through thick and thin’… longtime popularity attests to a persistence of a belief in true love and happy endings, despite all evidence to the contrary.”

The legendary performer and pop music icon debuted material from his new album on QVC during a special live broadcast on Tuesday, January 19 at 9 PM (ET) / 6pm PT from Paris Las Vegas, the new home to his reimagined stage show which opens on March 5th.  Also, in advance of release week, Manilow performed on The Tonight Show with Conan’ O Brien on Conan’s second to last night hosting the show. Release week, he appeared on The Today Show, Rachael Ray, and performed two song in the studio for Entertainment Tonight. He will also be performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live this Friday, February 5th.
 
On THE GREATEST LOVE SONGS OF ALL TIME, co- produced by Manilow, Clive Davis, and Michael Lloyd (Somewhere in Time and Dirty Dancing), Manilow presents loving interpretations and arrangements of classic love songs for the Manilow and music fan alike. The album selections include American standards, as well as songs from the “Great White Way” and silver screen including Irving Berlin’s ”How Deep Is The Ocean?,” and George Gershwin’s  “Love is Here To Stay.” Other beloved hits include: “You Made Me Love You,”  “I’ve Got A Crush On You,” “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love,” “The Theme From Love Story (Where Do I Begin),” “Nevertheless (I’m In Love With You),” and “It Could Happen To You.”  The album also features great renditions of “The Look Of Love,” “We’ve Only Just Begun,” “The Twelfth of Never,” and an emotional reading of “When You Were Sweet Sixteen.”
Clive Davis has been a perennial collaborator with Barry Manilow on virtually all his recordings, since they first worked together on “Mandy,” Manilow’s debut #1 single as the first artist signed to Arista by Davis in 1974, the first year of the label’s existence.

THE GREATEST LOVE SONGS OF ALL TIME is Barry Manilow’s follow-up to the mega-bestselling series of “Decades” albums that he masterminded with Clive Davis.  The series began in January 2006 with The Greatest Songs Of The Fifties, which entered the Billboard 200 album chart at #1, and was certified RIAA platinum.  The Greatest Songs Of The Sixties (October 2006) entered at #2.  When the RIAA platinum The Greatest Songs Of The Seventies entered at #4 (September 2007), Barry Manilow was distinguished as the only artist to chart three Top 5 debuts during 2006-2007.  The most recent entry in the series, The Greatest Songs Of The Eighties was released November 2008.

Beyond the sensational “Decades” series, Arista is the home to Manilow’s biggest hits including “Mandy,”  “It’s a Miracle,” “Could It Be Magic,” “I Write the Songs,” “Looks Like We Made It,” “Can’t Smile Without You,” “Copacabana (At the Copa),” “Somewhere In the Night,” “Ships,”  “I Made It Through the Rain,” and many, many more.
 
With worldwide record sales exceeding 80 million, Barry Manilow is ranked as the top Adult Contemporary chart artist of all time, according to R&R (Radio & Records); with no less than 25 consecutive top 40 hits to his credit between 1975 and 1983, on the Billboard Hot 100. Manilow has worked on over 40 albums over the course of his career as a singer, songwriter, arranger and producer.