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Track Listing
DISC 1: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION...:
1. Best of Me, The (Introduction)
2. Sweet Life - (previously unreleased)
3. I Am Your Child - (previously unreleased)
4. Could It Be Magic - (with Featherbed)
5. Could It Be Magic
6. Brandy - (with Scott English)
7. Mandy - (previously unreleased, take 1)
8. It's a Miracle
9. Sandra - (previously unreleased)
10. I Write the Songs
11. As Sure as I'm Standing Here
12. New York City Rhythm
13. Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
14. All the Time
15. Ready to Take a Chance Again
16. Somewhere in the Night
17. Old Songs, The - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
18. I Don't Want to Walk Without You
19. If I Should Love Again - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
DISC 2: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION...:
1. Copacabana - (home recording)
2. Copacabana (At the Copa)
3. Dancin' Fool - (from CBS-TV special)
4. I'm Your Man
5. Hey Mambo - (with Kid Creole & The Coconuts)
6. Big Fun
7. Riders to the Stars
8. I Wanna Be Somebody's Baby - (previously unreleased)
9. Daybreak
10. Even Now - (previously unreleased)
11. Life Will Go On - (previously unreleased)
12. Memory
13. Ships
14. If I Can Dream
15. One Voice
DISC 3: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION...:
1. This One's For You - (previously unreleased, demo)
2. Lay Me Down
3. Big City Blues - (with Mel Tormé)
4. Somewhere Down the Road - (previously unreleased, demo)
5. Little Traveling Music, Please, A
6. You Could Show Me
7. Ave Maria
8. Look to the Rainbow - (with Barbara Cook)
9. Joey - (previously unreleased)
10. Please Don't Be Scared
11. Baby It's Cold Outside - (with K.T. Oslin)
12. When October Goes
13. Ain't It a Shame - (previously unreleased)
14. Brooklyn Blues
15. How Do I Stop Loving You? - (previously unreleased, demo)
16. Just Remember - (previously unreleased)
17. I Can't Teach My Old Heart New Tricks - ('92)
18. Weekend in New England
DISC 4: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION...:
1. Give My Regards to Broadway - (previously unreleased)
2. Send In The Clowns / Looks Like We Made It - (previously unreleased)
3. Can't Smile Without You - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
4. Beautiful Music
5. Fugue For Tinhorns - (with Michael Crawford/Hinton Battle)
6. Medley (With Melissa Manchester): My Girl / No One In This World
7. Don't Talk to Me of Love - (featuring M Mathieu)
8. Last Duet, The - (with Lily Tomlin)
9. Wild Places - (previously unreleased)
10. Never Met a Man I Didn't Like
11. Who Needs to Dream
12. Read 'Em and Weep
13. Let Freedom Ring - (previously unreleased)
14. Let Me Be Your Wings - ('92)
15. If Tomorrow Never Comes - ('92)
16. Another Life - ('92)
17. I Made It Through the Rain - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
18. Best of Me, The - ('92)
Album Notes
This 4-CD box set contains 70 songs, 30 of which are previously unreleased or rare recordings, and a deluxe collector's booklet. The booklet includes original release information, color photographs, and liner notes by Bill Zehme, Barry Manilow, Clive Davis and other Manilow collaborators as well as a one-hour home video.
Personnel include: Barry Manilow (vocals, piano, keyboards); Hinton Battle, K.T. Oslin, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Lily Tomlin, Mel Tormé, Melissa Manchester, Michael Crawford, Barbara Cook , Bette Midler, Mirielle Mattieu (vocals).
Liner Note Author: Bill Zehme.
Recording information: 1971 - 1992.
After his start as Bette Midler's musical director and producer, Barry Manilow began his own rise to fame with the 1973 hit "Could It Be Magic." In 1974, with his first #1 hit, "Mandy," he claimed the sentimental romantic ballad as his own. His mastery of the form earned him a string of hit songs and albums from "Mandy" through 1983's HERE COMES THE NIGHT. Since the mid-80's Manilow's expanded his focus to include jazz (1984's 2:00 A.M. PARADISE CAFE) and showtunes (1991's SHOWSTOPPERS).
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