Barry Manilow Revisits Pop Charts Thanks to New Release (1/2)

The Bee Gees' "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" is one of 12 tunes Barry Manilow covers on Greatest Songs of the Seventies. He also recorded classics by Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles, Elton John, The Hollies, Carole King, and other 1970s superstars.

Barry says, "I sent a list of every Number One record in the 1970s to everybody I knew and asked them to pick their favorites." He tallied the results, and found many to be the same songs he and co-producer Clive Davis planned to include on the project.

"I think what we did was not only the greatest titles, the most popular titles, but for me, the most melodic songs I could find, these are the most melodic songs. Songs like 'You've Got A Friend' and 'Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word.' These are not the disco songs or the rock and roll. These are the most melodic songs that we could find. It's a beautifully romantic representation."

Last year, Barry recorded his first two decade-driven albums. Combined sales of Greatest Hits of the Fifties and Greatest Hits of the Sixties reached nearly two million copies in the United States.

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比吉斯乐队的"碎心难圆" 是巴瑞.曼尼洛翻唱专辑"七十年代最佳金曲"中的12首歌之一。除这首歌之外，他还翻唱了西曼及加弗内尔二人组合、甲壳虫乐队、埃尔顿.约翰、赫理斯合唱团、卡罗尔.金以及上世纪70年代其他巨星的经典曲目。

巴瑞说，"我把70年代的每张曾排名首位的唱片名单发给了每个我认识的人，并要求他们选出各自的最爱。"他统计后发现很多都是他和克里弗.大卫斯计划在这张专辑中推出的曲目。

我想我们所做的不仅是列出这些最棒最流行的曲目，在我而言，是尽可能找到旋律最美的歌曲，而这些就是最美的歌。像"你还有我这样的朋友"还有"难以启齿的歉意"这些都不是摇滚或迪斯科歌曲。 这些是我们所能找到的最优美的歌曲，它们是如此的美妙和浪漫。

去年巴瑞灌制了他的两个十年精选专辑。"五十年代精选"和"六十年代精选"这两张专辑在美国的销售量加起来近二百万张。