Richard and Barry

[Proudofyou]

I would have liked to see those two collaborate somehow. Kinda like Billy Joel and Elton John.

 

[Mike Blakesley]

"Barry" who?

Barry Manilow? Barry Gibb? Barry White? Barry McGuire? John Barry?

(I don't think any of them would have meshed well with Richard's style, but who knows?)

 

[Walkinat9]

Well, there *was* of course the collaboration with The Barries in the early '60s

 

[Proudofyou]

Oope sorry. Manilow.

 

[Mike Blakesley]

As good as Manilow was with the ballads, I always liked his uptempo tunes the best. The ballads all sounded the same after a while. "Something's Comin' Up" from his second album is my favorite tune of his. But, haven't listened to him in a long, long time except on the oldies streaming channel.

Richard's ballads never came to the huge bombastic ending like Manilow's did (well, except "Goodbye to Love" but even that didn't have its bombast in the chorus, the way all Manilow's ballads did.) But who knows what could have been.

 

[Matthew S]

As good as Manilow was with the ballads, I always liked his uptempo tunes the best. The ballads all sounded the same after a while. "Something's Comin' Up" from his second album is my favorite tune of his. But, haven't listened to him in a long, long time except on the oldies streaming channel.

Richard's ballads never came to the huge bombastic ending like Manilow's did (well, except "Goodbye to Love" but even that didn't have its bombast in the chorus, the way all Manilow's ballads did.) But who knows what could have been.

I always thought the BL Mitchell single sounded a little like something Barry would have produced. It gets pretty grand in the end, similar to many of Manilow’s tunes.