Mandy (Cover Version of Barry Manilow)

Mandy ...

Mandy is always part of my life since I was a teenager.  One of my puppy love was name Mandy.  She did not give me her real name and an year older than me.  It always one of my signature song for any singing competition and need to revive this song back to my life again. Both of my late beloved parents are home-pigeon singers.  Apparently they put the two recessive genes together and I came to this Planet Earth with the love of music which is always part of my life.  It was a lonely life when I was in the high school and often desperately wanted to be singer.  With simple guidance from the local singer Jennifer Yen, I began my singing practices in the bath room and toilet next to the cemetery.  With my voice always pulling cows to the trees, it took me many years to pull trough alone.

My classmate, Patrick Yau, introduced Barry Manilow to me and since then I was obsessed with Barry Manilow, sighing over his “Weekend in New England”-pining over those “long rocky beaches, and you by the bay.” and stay if you wish and lastly it would be Somewhere in the night.

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"Mandy'' as  originally titled "Brandy" was a hit in 1971 for Scott English in the UK and in 1972 for Bunny Walters in New Zealand, but achieved greater success when covered in 1974 by Barry Manilow in the US with the title changed to "Mandy" to avoid confusion with Looking Glass's "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)". 
Written by:  originally titled "Brandy", is a song written and composed by Scott English and Richard Kerr..

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Mandy

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"Mandy", originally titled "Brandy", is a song written and composed by Scott English and Richard Kerr.[1]

"Brandy" was a hit in 1971 for Scott English in the UK and in 1972 for Bunny Walters in New Zealand, but achieved greater success when covered in 1974 by Barry Manilow in the US with the title changed to "Mandy" to avoid confusion with Looking Glass's "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)". His version reached the top of the US Hot 100 Singles Chart. Later on, it was recorded by many other artists. Irish boyband Westlife had a UK number one with their version in 2003.

In 1974, recorded by Barry Manilow under the title "Mandy", the song was Manilow's first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts, and his first gold single.

In the three years between English's and Manilow's recordings, Looking Glass's "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" had hit number-one in 1972. Therefore, to avoid confusion, when Manilow decided to record the selection, he changed the title to "Mandy". It was Clive Davis who suggested that Manilow record the selection. Joe Renzetti arranged the record.[5] Manilow originally recorded it as an up-tempo bubblegum pop tune similar to English's original, but he and his producer, Ron Dante, reportedly hated the way it turned out; thus, he re-recorded it as a ballad and was much more pleased with the results.[citation needed]

In the Manilow version, the first two lines from the fourth verse following the instrumental section, were omitted, being:

"Riding on a country bus/ No one even noticed us."

Lyrics

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

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

Oh Mandy

When you came and you gave without taking

But I sent you away, oh Mandy

When you kissed me and stopped me from shaking

And I need you today, oh Mandy

I'm standing on the edge of time

I walked away when love was mine

Caught up in a world

Of uphill climbing

Tears are on my mind

Nothing is rhyming

Oh Mandy

When you came and you gave without taking

But I sent you away, oh Mandy

When you kissed me and stopped me from shaking

And I need you today

Oh Mandy

Yesterdays a dream

I faced the morning

Cryin' on the breeze

The pain is calling

Oh Mandy

When you came and you gave without taking

But I sent you away, oh Mandy

When you kissed me and stopped me from shaking

And I need you today

Oh Mandy

When you came and you gave without taking

But I sent you away, oh Mandy

When you kissed me and stopped me from shaking

And I need you

Oh Mandy wont you listen to what I've got to say

Oh Mandy don't you let me throw it all away

Oh Mandy wont you listen to what I've got to say

And I need you today

Oh Mandy

Songwriters

ENGLISH, SCOTT DAVID / KERR, RICHARD BUCHANAN

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Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, EMI Music Publishing

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