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Barry Manilow - One Voice Audio CD

A fair review of the Barry Manilow "One Voice" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Barry Manilow reviews here, or go back to the Barry Manilow tabs.

Barry Manilow Band: Barry Manilow
Title: One Voice
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Release Date: 2008-04-29
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: One Voice 2: (Why Don't We Try) A Slow Dance 3: Rain 4: Ships 5: You Could Show Me 6: I Don't Want to Walk Without You 7: Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed 8: Where Are They Now 9: Bobbie Lee (What's the Difference, I Gotta Live) 10: When I Wanted You 11: Sunday Father 12: They Gave in to the Blues [*] 13: Learning to Live Without You [#][*][Demo Version] 14: Where I Want to Be [#][*][Demo Version] 15: I Let Myself Believe [#][*][Demo Version]

Barry Manilow - One Voice
One Voice has a lot of heartfelt songs on it. I love this cd. One voice is great with Barry doing most of the background vocals in addition to the lead and Why Don't We Try A Slow Dance is one of my favorites. The emotion Barry always puts in his songs is especially seen in Ships and Father and Son. This is a must for any Barry Manilow fan.


This was the first...
But if you listen carefully, One Voice is similar in structure to it's predecessors: It's got the popular tunes ("Why Don't We Try A Slow Dance", "I Don't Wanna Walk Without You", "Ships"), the almost hits ("One Voice", "When I Wanted You", "Rain")and the forgetable rest, but yet it feels a little different. Luis Mejia - This was the first album in which Manilow's music started to become less popular and more personal, specially after his trilogy of success (Tryin' To Get The Feeling, This One's For You, Even Now). It's less arranged, less moving, and the songs have a different structure: they depend more on the rhythm of a smooth organ and guitar touches, and they have turns which do not fit correctly. You can see how Barry tried desperately to pull out the hits in this album, but I guess what it's remarkeable is how you recognize the songs of this album after you spend your lifetime wondering in Barry Manilow live shows 'where the heck does that song come from?'. Buy the popular ones, and then, you can enter into the very personal world Manilow gave to his songs starting in One Voice.


Great re-release
This one is a good buy!!! Probably not the greatest hits you expect to hear,but great songs anyhow and the unreleased demos are beautiful;they should've been in the original album.


1979 Barry Music
It is AWESOME! The more I listen to it, the more I LOVE it!!!! Some standard songs like "One Voice, I Don't Wanna Walk Without You, Ships, Who's Been Sleeping in my Bed, & When I Wanted You. "One Voice"--yeah, but whaddah voice! Great album. " They are all great, of course. "Who's Been Sleeping in my Bed" is a wee bit different version than the other version I have and it's cool. It has this guitar-drum bridge that is awesome--I mean, it ROCKS!!! I LOVE it! The song lasts over 4 1/2 minutes, too. Man, play that one loud in the morning and blast down the interstate! (and I do, too!) Everytime I hear this song, I wanna DANCE!!!

There are some new-to-me songs "Why Don't We Try A Slow Dance, Rain, You Could Show Me, Where Are They Now, Bobbie Lee, Sunday Father" and 4 bonus tracks "They Gave in to the Blues" is one plus there and 3 demos "Learning to Live Without You, Where I Want to Be, and I Let Myself Believe. " (and these last 3 are outstandingly beautuful). 15 songs in all--digitally remastered. "Why Don't We Try A Slow Dance" makes me think of the high-school dances--you know, slow dancing with a boy. Very pretty song, Heck, they're all such pretty songs! "Rain" has a catchy tune and beat to it. Makes me wanna dance. Kinda in between slow and fast. Sort of an easy beat, like 35 miles per hour. "Rain" (I can't stop the rain, kissin my love goodbye) so pretty. Also, in Rain, they make these plunk, plunk rain sounds on the guitar all through the song. Really creative. Really cool.

Great album, great sound quality! Runs a wee bit under 51 minutes. I highly recommend it. On a scale of 1 - 5, I give it at least an 20. I find myself getting hopelessly addicted to it. I have to listen to it at least once a day, if not more. It has definitely become one of my favorite Barry albums! Oh, and there's a booklet included with the words to all the songs, so you can sing along with Barry Blue-Eyes.

Update July 2008: This has become one of my absolute favorite Barry albums, along with Summer of '78. It was really hard for me to pick favorites. People sometimes write and ask me. I truly love everything Barry does.
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