Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow
After Manilow’s debut album went largely unnoticed, Arista Records president Clive Davis encouraged him to record a cover of “Mandy”. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a week in January of 1975 and shot Manilow into stardom. It also topped the charts in Canada, reached #11 in the UK (staying...
[Verse 1]
I remember all my life
Raining down as cold as ice
Shadows of a man
A face through a window
Crying in the night
The night goes into
[Verse 2]
Morning, just another day
Happy people pass my way
Looking in their eyes
I see a memory
I never realized
How happy you made me
[Chorus]
Oh, Mandy
Well, you came
And you gave without taking
But I sent you away
Oh, Mandy
Well, you kissed me
And stopped me from shaking
And I need you today
Oh, Mandy
[Verse 3]
I'm standing on the edge of time
I've walked away when love was mine
Caught up in a world
Of uphill climbing
The tears are in my eyes
And nothing is rhyming
[Chorus]
Oh, Mandy
Well, you came
And you gave without taking
But I sent you away
Oh, Mandy
Well, you kissed me
And stopped me from shaking
And I need you today
Oh, Mandy
[Bridge]
Yesterday's a dream
I face the morning
Crying on a breeze
The pain is calling
[Chorus]
Oh, Mandy
Well, you came
And you gave without taking
But I sent you away
Oh, Mandy
Well, you kissed me
And stopped me from shaking
And I need you today
Oh, Mandy
[Outro]
Well, you came
And you gave without taking
But I sent you away
Oh, Mandy
Well, you kissed me
And stopped me from shaking
And I need you
Mandy was written by Scott English & Richard Kerr.
Mandy was produced by Barry Manilow & Ron Dante.
Barry Manilow released Mandy on Mon Oct 07 1974.
According to an interview he did on The Paul Leslie Hour, co-writer Scott English didn’t like Manilow’s cover of his song:
“In the beginning, I hated it,” English said. He objected to how Manilow changed the song and made it “real poppy” sounding. But then the “checks started coming in” for the son...