Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 15:32:18 -1000 (HST)
From: Jackie M. Young <jyoung@lava.net>
To: Hawai'i Fans:  ;
Subject: Next Project ;)

Passing this on:


 Date: Fri May 5, 2006 8:08am(PDT)

May 4, 2006 _USA  Today_ (http://www.usatoday.com/)  _"Manilow gets the
feeling for the '60s" by Thomas K.  Arnold_

(http://www.usatoday.com/life/2006-05-04-coming-attractions_x.htm?csp=34)

Having topped the album charts with a CD of  classic songs from the 1950s, 
Barry Manilow has begun work on a follow-up,  The Greatest Songs of the Sixties. 
The BMG album will revisit 1960s songs Manilow grew up with; the song selection 
hasn't been finalized, but candidates include compositions from Burt Bacharach 
and the Mamas & the Papas.

The veteran pop singer also is working on a new music DVD, First and
Farewell, to follow Manilow: Music and Passion, which came out in late
March. Having sold 150,000 copies, the two-disc concert set is the  top-selling 
music DVD so far this year. 

"I'm stunned at the incredible success I've had this year," says Manilow, 
"and deeply grateful to the  public who continue to allow me
to make the music I love so much."

First and Farewell is a two-DVD set featuring an hour-long black-and-white
video of Manilow rehearsing for his first concert tour in  1973, as well as
a two-hour compilation from his 2004 "farewell" tour. The  rehearsal DVD features
Manilow singing his Commercial Medley for the first time, plus a rare clip
of him discussing his early work with Bette Midler in the bathhouses of New
York. The 2004 disc includes backstage and  behind-the-scenes footage from
his final road  trip.


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--Jackie


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