I know a lot of people hate Barry Manilow, but I can't. Even if I wanted to, it's just not possible. First of all, I don't care what anybody says, I genuinely like the song Mandy (and I hope the urban legend that it's about a dog is true). He also used to write commercial jingles, a wholly underrated genre of music.
More than that, even if Mandy and the commercial jingles didn't exist, ol' Barry has an ace in the hole; the only other song by him I know is A Nice Boy Like Me:
Hell yeah! That song is Da Shizzle.
And, if you don't like the way Mister Manilow sings it, maybe you'll like the first performance of it I ever heard/saw, by Sandy Duncan on The Muppet Show:
Nobody can convince me that doesn't rock.
Be seeing you.
-Sally
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