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Barry Manilow - Barry Manilow I (1973) [1986, Japan, 1st Press]

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 7 May 2022 19:25:37

"Barry Manilow" is the debut album by Barry Manilow, released initially in 1973 by Bell Records. The original release was unsuccessful, with only around 35,000 copies sold by 1975. After the success of Manilow's second album Barry Manilow II, the album was re-released as "Barry Manilow I" in 1975 by Arista that had taken over Bell Records. Four songs of the original album were reworked for this version, including "Could It Be Magic" which served as the single for the re-release. The re-released album was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1976 for over half a million copies sold.

~Wikipedia

Barry Manilow's debut album proves to be a far different animal than its glitzier successors; it's fairly raw and unpolished, though his dramatic vocal style is already well established here. The material roams from impassioned balladeering ("I Am Your Child," "One of These Days") to chunky country ("Sweetwater Jones"), driving rock ("Oh My Lady"), and '40s-style swing ("Cloudburst") and that's just side one. "Could It Be Magic," of course, is what pulled Manilow above the pack; it's a textbook summary of the dramatic orchestration and swooning vocals that have long marked his style. Some deft arranging doesn't hurt, either; the song glistens from an arrangement that keeps the backing band well in check, where other producers might have let them step all over it. The musical schizophrenia continues unchecked as the album progresses. Guitars surely never sounded so heavy again on as they did on "Flashy Lady," whose trebly, high-end leads could almost be mistaken for Kiss' own Ace Frehley. But just when you think you've got the artist pegged down, he comes back with the poppy R&B of "Friends" and the more familiar mid-tempo musings of "Sweet Life" a promise, of sorts, that Manilow will adjust to the hand that fame dishes out. He had the confidence to pull it off; anyone opening his debut album with a minute-long spoken-word track that featured his grandfather was obviously not laboring under anybody else's notions of hip. Judging by this unpolished outing, Manilow came across as having plenty to say, but without a clear roadmap of how he wanted to say it. Manilow and producer Ron Dante would clear up that problem on the next album, Barry Manilow II, but if you want a sense of where it began, here's where you start.

~Review by Ralph Heibutzki

Release of the album: 1973, July, 7 [LP Bell Records, Cat.# BELL 1129, USA]
Release of this CD: 1986, September, 21 [CD Arista Records/Nippon Phonogram Co., Ltd. (Japan), Cat.# 32RD-64 / EAN: T4988011301841]
℗ 1973 Arista Records, Inc.
Manufactured in Japan by Nippon Phonogram Co., Ltd. Tokyo. for Arista Records, Inc.
Distributed by Nippon Phonogram Co., Ltd. Tokyo.
Made in Japan

Credits:

Acoustic Guitar – Stuart Scharff
Bass – Stu Woods
Congas, Tambourine – Norman Pride
Drums – Steve Gadd
Electric Guitar – Dick Frank
Producer – Ron Dante
Producer, Piano – Barry Manilow

Tracklist:

01. Sing It (01:18)
(Barry Manilow and his Grandpa Joe Manilow, 1948)
02. Sweetwater Jones (02:30)
(Barry Manilow)
03. Cloudburst (02:27)
(Leroy Kirkland, Jimmy Harris, Jon Hendricks)
04. One Of These Days (02:53)
(Barry Manilow)
05. Oh My Lady (03:30)
(Barry Manilow, Adrienne Anderson)
06. I Am Your Child (02:17)
(Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer)
07. Could It Be Magic (Inspired by Prelude in C Minor, F. Chopin) (06:51)
(Barry Manilow, Adrienne Anderson)
08. Seven More Years (03:39)
(Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer)
09. Flashy Lady (03:57)
(Ron Dante, Marty Panzer)
10. Friends (03:08)
(Buzzy Linhart, Mark Klingman)
11. Sweet Life (03:50)
(Barry Manilow)

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Official DR value: DR12

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