| Product Summary | | UPC: 00828766927221 | | Release Date: 9/13/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 64005809 | | Item#: M2K95P | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Best Of Me, The (Introduction) ~ Barry Manilow |  | | 2. Sweet Life - (previously unreleased) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 3. I Am Your Child - (previously unreleased) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 4. Could It Be Magic - (with Featherbed) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 5. Could It Be Magic ~ Barry Manilow | | | 6. Brandy - (with Scott English) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 7. Mandy - (previously unreleased, take 1) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 8. It's A Miracle ~ Barry Manilow | | | 9. Sandra - (previously unreleased) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 10. I Write The Songs ~ Barry Manilow | | | 11. As Sure As I'm Standing Here ~ Barry Manilow | | | 12. New York City Rhythm ~ Barry Manilow | | | 13. Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again - (previously unreleased, alternate take) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 14. All The Time ~ Barry Manilow | | | 15. Ready To Take A Chance Again ~ Barry Manilow | | | 16. Somewhere In The Night ~ Barry Manilow | | | 17. Old Songs, The - (previously unreleased, alternate take) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 18. I Don't Want To Walk Without You ~ Barry Manilow | | | 19. If I Should Love Again - (previously unreleased, alternate take) ~ Barry Manilow | | Disc 2
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Copacabana - (home recording) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 2. Copacabana (At The Copa) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 3. Dancin' Fool - (from CBS-TV special) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 4. I'm Your Man ~ Barry Manilow | | | 5. Hey Mambo - (with Kid Creole & The Coconuts) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 6. Big Fun ~ Barry Manilow | | | 7. Riders to the Stars ~ Barry Manilow | | | 8. I Wanna Be Somebody's Baby - (previously unreleased) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 9. Daybreak ~ Barry Manilow | | | 10. Even Now - (previously unreleased) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 11. Life Will Go On - (previously unreleased) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 12. Memory ~ Barry Manilow | | | 13. Ships ~ Barry Manilow | | | 14. If I Can Dream ~ Barry Manilow | | | 15. One Voice ~ Barry Manilow | | Disc 3
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. This One's For You - (previously unreleased, demo) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 2. Lay Me Down ~ Barry Manilow | | | 3. Big City Blues - (with Mel Torm?) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 4. Somewhere Down The Road - (previously unreleased, demo) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 5. Little Traveling Music, Please, A ~ Barry Manilow | | | 6. You Could Show Me ~ Barry Manilow | | | 7. Ave Maria ~ Barry Manilow | | | 8. Look to the Rainbow - (with Barbara Cook) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 9. Joey - (previously unreleased) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 10. Please Don't Be Scared ~ Barry Manilow | | | 11. Baby It's Cold Outside - (with K.T. Oslin) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 12. When October Goes ~ Barry Manilow | | | 13. Ain't It A Shame - (previously unreleased) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 14. Brooklyn Blues ~ Barry Manilow | | | 15. How Do I Stop Loving You? - (previously unreleased, demo) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 16. Just Remember - (previously unreleased) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 17. I Can't Teach My Old Heart New Tricks - ('92) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 18. Weekend In New England ~ Barry Manilow | | Disc 4
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Give My Regards to Broadway - (previously unreleased) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 2. Send In The Clowns / Looks Like We Made It - (previously unreleased) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 3. Can't Smile Without You - (previously unreleased, alternate take) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 4. Beautiful Music ~ Barry Manilow | | | 5. Fugue For Tinhorns - (with Michael Crawford/Hinton Battle) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 6. Medley (with Melissa Manchester): My Girl / No One In This World ~ Barry Manilow | | | 7. Don't Talk to Me of Love - (featuring M Mathieu) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 8. Last Duet, The - (with Lily Tomlin) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 9. Wild Places - (previously unreleased) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 10. Never Met A Man I Didn't Like ~ Barry Manilow | | | 11. Who Needs To Dream ~ Barry Manilow | | | 12. Read 'Em And Weep ~ Barry Manilow | | | 13. Let Freedom Ring - (previously unreleased) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 14. Let Me Be Your Wings - ('92) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 15. If Tomorrow Never Comes - ('92) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 16. Another Life - ('92) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 17. I Made It Through The Rain - (previously unreleased, alternate take) ~ Barry Manilow | | | 18. Best Of Me, The - ('92) ~ Barry Manilow | |
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | 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: Barry Manilow (vocals, piano, keyboards); Hinton Battle, K.T. Oslin, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, Lily Tomlin, Mel Torm?, Melissa Manchester, Michael Crawford, Mireille Mathieu, Barbara Cook , Bette Midler (vocals). | | Liner Note Author: Bill Zehme. | | The story Barry Manilow, his friends and associates tell in the liner notes to his four-CD/one-VHS box set retrospective The Complete Collection And Then Some... is about a contemporary pop songwriter who is reluctantly transformed into an interpretive singer; becomes an easy-listening, commercial pop superstar to his surprise (and, to some extent, dismay); and, through travail, reclaims his original vision by writing and performing neo-classic pop with tinges of jazz and show music. The trouble with this story is that when you play the album, you still hear a lot of earnest, piano-based romantic ballads, the singer's own tunes virtually indistinguishable from those of others. David Martin, co-author of "Can't Smile Without You," frankly admits that he stole the song's title from a greeting card, but Manilow's own lyric collaborators don't dig much deeper. Manilow's real talents lie in arrangement -- he always puts in enough modulations, tempo shifts, and instrumental development to maintain interest -- and in his singing, which retains sincerity and some buoyancy despite the unrelieved plaintiveness of the melodies and lyrics. It's lonely housewife music, to be sure, but Manilow's performances transform it. His subsequent forays into Latin, jazz, classic pop, and show music are the works of an enthusiastic amateur, but no less winning for that, except for a few occasions that reveal a lack of taste. Like other box sets assembled in the early '90s, The Complete Collection And Then Some... tipped the scales more toward unreleased material. There were a few newly recorded songs, and a few that had been left off Manilow's regular albums, but the bulk of the previously unreleased material consisted of live performances, demos, and alternate takes. Many of the big hits are only heard in alternate versions, meaning that this was aimed at Manilow fans for whom the original demo of "Mandy," on which the singer accidentally sang "Brandy" (the song's original title), was more valuable. The set also included an hour-long video, Barry Manilow Performances, Volume One: The Highlights, which employed footage from Manilow's television appearances of the 1970s and '80s. [The Complete Collection was reissued in 2005 with a bonus fifth disc of DVD material.] ~ William Ruhlmann | | 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). |
Producer: Barry Manilow; Ron Dante |
Musical Guests | | Bette Midler | | Barbara Cook | | Melissa Manchester | | K.T. Oslin | | Mel Torme | | Michael Crawford | | Kid Creole & The Coconuts | | M Mathieu |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/13/2005 | | Original Release Date : 1992 | | Catalog ID : 69272 | | Label : Arista Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 4 | | Studio/Live : Mixed | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00828766927221 |
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| | Bio | | | Barry Manilow Barry Manilow's unparalleled career is made up of virtually every facet of music, including performing, composing, arranging and producing. A 2002 Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductee, Manilow has triumphed in every medium of entertainment. He has received Grammy, Emmy and Tony Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award. Among his 41 albums are such diverse recordings as Manilow Sings Sinatra (1998), Singin' with the Big Bands (1994), Showstoppers (1991), Swing Street (1987), 2:00 A.M. Paradise Cafe (1984), and many others, including 38 Top 40 Hits. In addition, every album he has produced for other artists, including Bette Midler, Nancy Wilson, and Dionne Warwick, has been nominated for Grammy Awards. Manilow's film credits include the Oscar-nominated "Ready To Take A Chance Again" (from Foul Play), a song for the soundtrack of Walt Disney's Oliver and Company, and the soundtracks for the animated features Thumbelina and The Pebble and the Penguin. Manilow's television appearances include the 2002 one-hour CBS-TV special, Ultimate Manilow, taped in Hollywood at the Kodak Theatre. In 2000 alone, he taped Manilow Live! for DirectTV, followed by the Manilow Country special on TNN. A two-hour A&E special, Barry Manilow: Live by Request aired in 1996 as the highest rated music show in the network's history. Manilow also has appeared on the TV comedies Murphy Brown and Ally McBeal. Manilow's career in the theater ranges from his Tony Award-winning Broadway debut in 1977 to the June 2001 opening of Could It Be Magic? Ð The Barry Manilow Songbook. Manilow worked with Mitzie & Ken Welch to create a show in which the music is brought to life by an ensemble of five very talented performers and a six-piece band. The world premiere of his musical, Harmony (with book and lyrics by Bruce Sussman), enjoyed a successful run at the La Jolla Playhouse and is anticipated to head to Broadway in 2004. The musical is based on the true story of The Comedian Harmonists, a singing group of six young men who attempted to find harmony during the discordant times that led to the Third Reich gaining control of Germany. His collaboration with Sussman also created Barry Manilow's Copacabana - The Musical. Inspired by his hit single, the elaborate two-act musical spectacular ran to packed houses on London's West End for 18 months, a national company toured the U.S. Manilow made his literary debut in 1987 with the publication of his autobiographical Sweet Life: Adventures on the Way to Paradise. Manilow is involved with worthwhile charities and humanitarian efforts around the world. He is the national spokesperson for the Foundation Fighting Blindness. He is also a member of the National Academy of Jazz Board of Governors and the Music Center of Los Angeles. His charity involvement includes The Prince's Trust, United Way, the Starlight Foundation, numerous organizations fighting the battle against AIDS, and many others.
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