Barry’s first album from which I won’t buy a single song
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By erbii
Sorry Barry. As a lifelong fan of yours, this album is simply not good. Please stop trying to recreate 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe. Your fading ability to enunciate clearly (false teeth?) requires more instrumental orchestration to hide it. I wish you would pick and sing some original pop songs like those that made you famous. Please?
Simple and Perfect
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By CovJack
It feels like you're sitting in Barry Manilow's living room while he plays classic songs on his piano. This album has great music presented simply by a great musician. I love "classic Manilow" as much as the next child of the '70s, but this album is wonderfully sublime and a great companion to the first "Night Songs" and "2:00am Paradise Cafe" (which remains my favorite Manilow album of all time).
Well done, Mr. M! More, please!
its ok, but I prefer full instrumentation
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By TonyFromSyracuse
I also miss the double tracked vocals which used to be his signature sound.