Barry Manilow Duets Album Review and Giveaway!

How would you like an album that is FILLED with easy listening?  Something you can pop in the CD player and putz around the house, listen to in your car, or listen to as you fall asleep? You will want to check out the new Barry Manilow album.

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With the new Barry Manilow Duetsalbum, due out on May 3rd through Arista/Legacy (a division of Sony Music Entertainment), you can do all that and more!

Barry Manilow was quoted as saying this about Duets:

“I’m very proud of this album,” Manilow said recently.  “Recording each song was a thrill because these singers are so great, but listening to all of the cuts back to back was an overwhelming experience.  Getting the opportunity to sing with them was an honor.”

So what exactly makes up Duets?  15 of Barry Manilow’s most memorable performances with top notch singers make up the tracks on Duets.  Below is a listing of the tracks on Duets:

Title                                                             With                              From album (or source)                     Year

1. *  You’ve Got A Friend                   Melissa Manchester              The Greatest Songs of the Seventies    2007

2.     Hey Mambo                                 Kid Creole & the Coconuts   Swing Street                                         1987

3.     Let Me Be Your Wings                 Debra Byrd                           Thumbelina O.S.                                  1994

               (end title duet)

4.     Cherish/Windy                             The Association                    Greatest Songs Of The Sixties              2006

5.     Look To The Rainbow                 Barbara Cook                       Showstoppers                                      1991

6.     Islands In The Stream                   Reba McEntire                      Greatest Songs Of The Eighties           2008

7.     Big City Blues                              Mel Torme (featuring            2:00 AM Paradise Café                       1984

                                                                    Gerry Mulligan)

8.     On A Slow Boat To China            Bette Midler                          Bette Midler Sings The Rosemary        2003

                                                                                                                 Clooney Songbook
9.     Run To Me                                   Dionne Warwick                   Manilow Collection/20 Classic Hits     1985

10.   Summertime                                 Diane Schuur (featuring        Swing Street                                         1987

                                                                    Stan Getz)

11.   Sincerely/Teach Me Tonight         Phyllis McGuire                    The Greatest Songs of the Fifties         2005

12.   Blue                                                     Sarah Vaughan              2:00 AM Paradise Café                       1984

13.   Now And Forever                        Sheena Easton                      The Pebble and the Penguin O.S.        1995
14.   I Won’t Be The One To Let Go    Barbra Streisand                   Duets (by Barbra Streisand)                 2002

15.   The Last Duet                               Lily Tomlin                           Barry                                                   1980

    * indicates previously unreleased mix

I’m not sure if you know this or not, but Barry Manilow is ranked as the top Adult Contemporary chart artist of all time…with 25 consecutive top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, you don’t want to miss anything Barry is producing!

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