Everyone I'm Back

Hi everyone I'm back. Kevin and Amy Jackson's renewal vows were wonderful. Amy looked oh so beautiful in her tea length pale cream dress. Her sister Christy was her matron of honor. Ken's best man was his brother Andrew. The ceremony was held on one of the beaches in Malibu. There is a restaurant in Malibu that over looks the pacific where they had their reception. The wedding cake was a white cake with raspberry filling and whip cream frosting. I see Carly got you up to speed on the latest 411. While I was out in LA someone said they heard I was endorsing the democrat candidate  for president. I told the person I'm not endorsing anyone for president. I'm not a political person. Nor is politics my thing. Making music and Broadway theatre is. When I go on Facebook it's to post stuff on my page, read the stuff you guys post. Check on the Facebook pages I do follow. Some were ones recommended by Carly. Ray Charles the Golden Retriever, Sunny Blue the Golden Retriever,  Zoe the seeing eye dog and Harlow and Sage. I follow Guiding Eyes For The Blind, America Vetdogs and BARC. I follow Broadway.com, Broadway World, Playbill and Theatre Mania. All my friends in the music business Eddie Arkin, Kenny G., Kevin Jackson, Billy Kidd, Dave Koz, Mike Lent, Michael Lington, Melissa Manchester, Joey Melotti, Bette Midler, Brian Murphy, Ron Pedley, Dana Robbins,
David Rosenblat and Dionne Warwick. Just so you all know I've never ever followed Suzie Q? on Facebook. She has sent me a few friends requests which I have denied. I have much better things to do than to read her drivel on Facebook. All about her hormone therapy stuff and ETC, Plus she still swears that I am gay and that Carly is my beard. Boy is she dead wrong on both accounts. Gees I'm a happily married man.  Hey Carly if you read the post I Love You forever and always. Yes it was "To have and to hold from this day forward for better for worse for richer for poorer  in sickness in health to love and to cherish as long as we both shall live." Even though we were married in an orthodox
Jewish wedding ceremony. I signed the Ketubah before the actual ceremony. I then went up to the front with my cousins Olivia and Dennis. I stood under the chuppah turned around to watch Carly walk down the aisle with her parents. We recited the orthodox Jewish wedding vows. Then we each took a drink of wine from the glass. The rabbi finished the wine wrapped the glass in a hankie placed it on the floor. I busted the hankie cover glass with my foot and everyone yelled Mozel Tov.  Mozel Tov means good luck in Hebrew. I know Suzie Q. wishes I was with Scott Nevins instead of Carly. Scott would love nothing better than to be my life partner and to be married to me. Well that's never
ever going to happen since I'm not gay nor am I interested in men. That was one of reasons I moved back to New York City. To get away from Scott and Suzie Q. pestering me. Beside the fact that I spent more time here than I did in Palm Springs. Beats me why I moved to LA then to Palm Springs in the first place. All my Broadway friends kept saying "Barry your making a big mistake moving out west. You'll come to regret it later. Which I did  come to regret back in two thousand seven. That's why I started house hunting back in my old stomping grounds of Brooklyn in two thousand eight. Tomas Sanchez my realtor found me the townhouse on Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights where I now live. It has everything I wanted.  A garden floor with family room, small kitchen, half bath and Carly's computer room. Parlor floor half bath, living room, dinning room, big kitchen and coat closet. First floor master suite floor bedroom and bathroom. Second floor two guest bedrooms, bathroom with tub and laundry room. Third floor which is my at home songwriting, recording studio, home office, kitchenette and half bath. Closet space for dog food and treats and all our other stuff. A nice sized back yard for Max, Bailey and Bialy our Labrador Retrievers. Easy access to the subway that can take us into Manhattan. Also easy access for Carly to get to the zoo from our house. We're not to far from the Brooklyn Bowl where we can go bowling and eat their fried chicken. It is so good to be back in my hometown of Brooklyn. Moving on did  Carly mention the question about your favorite Broadway song that wasn't on my nineteen ninety one Showstoppers album? Well put your thinking caps on and  start thinking guys. Why? 'cause Showstoppers II will become a reality in the very near future. Ok Aussie and New Zealanders get ready because I'm heading down under in two thousand eighteen. That's June two thousand eighteen to exact. While I'm down under the BMIFC and I are planning a convention Melbourne. It will take place from Wednesday June fourteen thru Sunday June seventeen. There will be two concerts included in the convention price. I'm doing two concerts while in Melbourne Saturday June sixteenth and Sunday June seventeenth. So guess what Aussie and New Zealanders you'll get to help me celebrate my seventy fifth birthday. BMIFC director Alicia Galay and I are thinking up some cool stuff to do during the convention.  Australian cities Perth, Darwin, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. New Zealand Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. The Australian and New Zealand tour schedule will be up in June of next year. Then July of next year is when the convention itinerary will be posted. The tour schedule will be under the concerts section of my Facebook page Also on the Barry Net under concert schedule. The convention itinerary will be up on the convention of my Facebook page. Plus on the Barry Net under up and coming conventions. So far there's the Weekend In Canada March two thousand seventeen. The Denver convention June two thousand seventeen. Then the Melbourne convention in June two thousand eighteen. Kevin my co-producer got the crazy idea I should sing Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport while I'm down under. I told him I'd look into the lyrics. We  shall see about that guys. I'm in the middle of working on my coffee table book. The running title for right now is "Barry Manilow All Around The World." It's going to be a book filled with photos of my adventures since nineteen eighty four when I started touring as a recording artist. Yes there will be some never before seen photos of me and the people who toured with me. I'm shooting for sometime in early two thousand eighteen.  Also you can go check the tour section of my Facebook page. Tickets for my NYE in NYC at RCMH go on sale this Friday September twenty third at ten am eastern time. Also going on sale on Friday December twenty third is the tickets for the BMIFC NYE party on Saturday December thirty first. Prior to the concert at Radio City Music Hall there will be a formal sit down dinner. Oh and yes I'll be there to dine with everyone. Then after the concert we'll have our New Years Eve party. I'll be there for that too. I also looked into hotel rooms at the Grand Hyatt Hotel for fans coming to New York City for the Radio City concerts. I was able to get a the rate of one hundred twenty five per night per room. So that's  one hundred twenty five for one person. Sixty two fifty for two people. Forty one seventy for three people. Thirty one twenty five for four people. That's per night for each person. Then on October tenth starting at ten am eastern time  you will be able to signup for the Weekend In Canada. October twelfth at ten am eastern time is when tickets will go on sale for the Canadian shows. Remember I'm always open to new idea. Oh and one other surprise before I let you go. I'm doing a video called The Making Of Here At The Mayflower. Back in two thousand one when I went into the recording studio to record Here At The Mayflower I video taped the recording sessions. That's what I did in April and May when I recorded Here At The Mayflower II (Many more stories inside.) That will come out with Here At The Mayflower II (Many more stories inside.) CD on November thirteenth.

Hello It's Me Carly

Hello everyone it's me Carly. Barry had to go out of town to LA for a wedding. Barry's co-producer
Kevin Jackson is renewing his wedding vows to his wife of thirty five years Amy. Kevin and Amy
asked Barry to sing at their wedding. Barry's singing The Best Of Me as Amy walks down the aisle. He asked me to fill you fans in on the latest skinny. The weekend in Canada signup is now closed. There are a total of seven hundred and fifty fans coming to that. The Weekend In Canada is Friday March 10th thru Sunday March 12th.The hotels are the Hilton Quebec City and the Hyatt Regency Montreal. The BMIFC and Barry have added another seminar to the convention next year.  That seminar will be all about producing an album. It will be taught by Barry and his co-producer Kevin Jackson. Kevin was the  co-producer behind Showstoppers, Barry Manilow, Here At The Mayflower,  Night Song, New York State Of Mind, Something's Comin'  Up, Here At The Mayflower II and Keep Each Other Warm. On the horizon is Manilow Live At The Palladium two disc set. That will be cued from his Palladium run. It will be a CD/DVD and a booklet. Then next summer during the three nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre David Taylor will be video taping all three nights for a three disc concert set  Barry hopes to have Manilow Live At The Palladium CD, DVD and booklet out next April. Then Barry Manilow Live At Red Rocks three disc DVD will be out next November just in time for Christmas. That will make perfect Christmas gifts for your favorite Barry Buddies.  Barry also mentioned something about maybe taping his Radio City Music Hall New Years Eve show on Saturday December thirty first. Knowing Barry he'll definitely do it. Barry also mentioned he enjoys asking you fans questions. Especially when he asks about your favorite songs. The latest Barry Q as Barry likes to call them is. First go back and look at his Showstoppers album. Besides the songs on that album. Can you name another song from a Broadway musical that you like? Future reference for Showstoppers II. Yes I know Barry once said he'd never do another show tunes album again. Well he's changed his mind. The reason I did go to LA is because this is my weekend to work. Also next month I'm taking two weeks off for a vacation with Barry. Now Barry will be back Sunday evening.
I'm going to let you go. I've three dogs Max, Bailey and Bialy who need to out. Barry sends everyone his love.
Carly

Facebook Post September 12.

Hi Gang It's me Barry again. I know what your thinking. Didn't he just post a message on Facebook? Yes I did but I have some more news to share with all of you. The news is that I'm going to be on the October cover of Keyboard magazine. I'm talking about my latest album Here At The Mayflower II (Many more stories inside.) I've also partnered with Yamaha to create my own piano. It's a Yamaha B17 Avant Grand piano in glossy black. Keyboard magazine is giving readers a chance to win one of my Yamaha B17 Avant Grand pianos signed by me. Plus the winner will get a copy of Here At The Mayflower II (Many more stories inside.) on vinyl. Then next July during the convention you'll get to meet Jay Benson the head of my One Voice Foundation. The One Voice Foundation was created to give animals a voice that they don't get. The One Voice Foundation raises money for these animal charities. America's Vetdogs, Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition and Guide Dogs For The Blind. Now if you remember last year I asked you a question about love songs. The question was Name five love songs that I sang or wrote? While I was over in London I went into the Abbey Road Studios with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to record a love song album called Keep Each Other Warm. Drum roll please Side one 1. Keep Each Other Warm 2. Where Or When 3.Some Sweet Day 4.I Just Want To Be The One In Your Life 5. Something Tells Me 5. Who Needs To dream. Side two 1. Love Is Where You Find It 2. Could It Be Magic 3. With My Lover Beside me 4. Twenty Four Hours A Day 5. No other Love 6. Sweet Heaven 7. You Oughta Be Home With Me. That album is in the mastering studio and will be out right before Christmas on Tuesday December nineteenth. The last time I asked you all a question was in two thousand fourteen. I asked you to name five songs that I wrote and produced for Brian Murphy? That was from the following albums  Brian Murphy, Brian Murphy II, Tryin' To Get The Feeling, This One's For You, Brian Murphy Live, Even Now, Brian Murphy Greatest Hits Vol I, Brian, If I Should Love Again, Brian Live In Britain and Here Comes The Night. Which many of you fans did. Then I took the ones with the most votes and gave them jazz arrangements, Then at the end of two thousand fourteen I put out the album Something's Comin' Up. It was only sold thru the BMIFC just like Keep Each Other Warm will be. I have a few other little things I'm  working on. All of those even Carly doesn't know about. One of those project will be coming out next year. It's a book called On The Road With Barry Manilow. It's photos from my touring travels all wrapped up in a coffee table book. McGraw Hill is the publisher of the book which comes out in November of next year. It's photos from my travels starting in nineteen eighty four Paradise Café Tour to the two thousand seventeen Manilow Live Tours. The March Canadian and the June thru August US summer tours. I'm including them too since I'm going by tour bus again. Ever since I started touring in nineteen eighty four I took a camera with me to take photos. Marc Hulett handled the video recorder. So maybe in the future me, Marc and David will go through the video tapes and do a compilation DVD boxed set. Disc one the eighties, disc two the nineties, disc three two thousands disc four two thousand ten. I bet you would love that wouldn't you. Me going by private jet, being a tourist, sound checks before the shows, back stage getting ready and ETC. Would Brian Murphy do that kind of stuff ? I don't think so. He's not as fan friendly as I am. Beside he's decided to quit touring. The late planes, lousy room service and the hotels. His biggest problem is he never took me (Brian Murphy) time. I've always made time for me (Barry Alan Manilow). Every year I took a vacation. Whether it was here in the US or going over seas. I've gone by airplane, Amtrak, car and cruise ships. I don't get motion sickness like Brian does. So going on a cruise is fine with me. In fact I did one of Dave Koz's & Friends At Sea cruises. It was back in two thousand thirteen. We cruised the Mediterranean and Italy, Greece and Sicily were are ports of call. The cruise was in September the twenty second thru the twenty ninth. Dave uses the Royal Caribbean cruise line and the ship was the Navigator Brian hates doing stuff with his fans.  I was a guest at one of his fan clubs conventions. He kept telling me not to get to friendly with his fans.His manager Gregory Knoffler told me Brian hates connecting with the public. Me I'm the exact opposite I love connecting with the public. Brian doesn't quite understand that the public got him where he is today a successful pop recording artist. Look at me I'm just rambling on again. I do that from time to time. Well I better get back to what I was doing. Oh yeah that's what I was doing looking a the final draft of my On The Road With Barry Manilow coffee table book before it goes to the printers. As Rachel Ray says "See you when I see you."
Love,
Barry

More Fan Voted Albums.

One thing Barry loves to do is to asked fans questions dealing with what songs they like. He asked the fans What songs that he produced for Brian Murphy did they like? Barry then took those songs and gave them jazz arrangements. Barry took those jazzed arranged songs and put out Something's Comin' Up. Then he asked the fans for their favorite love songs that he wrote or recorded.  So he's
putting out on December nineteenth his Keep Each Other Warm love song album.

The Joy Of Having A Puppy Times Three.

Barry's co-producer Kevin McGuire has two Labrador Retrieves A male name Theo and a female named Claire. Claire earlier this spring had a litter of puppies six in all. Four boys and two girls. So the joys of having a puppy times three. Yes you heard that right two new puppies of their own. Also one new puppy being raised for America's Vetdogs. In early January Carly's nineteen year old Beagle Charlie died. Barry promised Carly a dog for her birthday in March. Then in August while Barry was in the UK his Labrador Retriever Maggie died. Carly told Barry he was a two dog kind of guy since he usually had two dogs  at one time. Kevin  McGuire who was one of Barry's friends had a dog who just had a litter of puppies. Kevin's dog was a female Labrador Retriever had a litter  of six puppies. Four boys and two girls. Theo was  a dark yellow color and Claire was a pale yellow color. Carly chose one of the pale yellow puppies. She named him Bailey. Once Barry got home he called Kevin to see if there were any puppies left. Kevin said there were two left. the oldest a male and the runt a female. Barry chose the female who was also a pale yellow. He named her Bialy. Now once again there would be three dogs in their house. Max, Bailey and Bialy three Labrador Retrievers. Max the male black Labrador Retriever with brown eyes. Bailey the red male Labrador Retriever with brown eyes. Bialy the female champagne Labrador Retriever with blue eyes. Barry explained to Kevin about his dog Maggie passing away. So that's why I'm getting another dog Barry said.  Actually there would be four dog in the house. Barry's male black Labrador Retriever Max age four. His female pale yellow Labrador Retriever Bialy age six months. Carly's pale yellow Labrador Retriever Bailey age six months. Bailey and Bialy are brother and sister. Also a dark reddish colored Labrador Retriever male named Radar age four months.