Putting It Together

Barry Manilow had a huge surprise for his fans. Barry had been secretly working on an album he knew the fans would love. Since tons of fans kept begging for another show tunes album. This album was called Barry Manilow  The New York Pops Orchestra Putting It Together The Songs of Stephen Sondheim.  Barry went on the internet and looked at all of Stephen Sondheim's musicals to find the songs he liked the best. A Little Night Music, Company Finan's Rainbow, Follies, Gypsy, Saturday Night, Side By Side, Sunday In The Park With George, Sweeny Todd and West Side Story. He picked the songs Putting It Together, Make The Most Of Your Music, All I Need Is The Girl, Fair Brooklyn, Ah Paris, Getting Married Today, Marry Me A Little, New York Sequence, No Place Like London, Old Friends, Look To The Rainbow, Somewhere, Being alive, I Love You Et Cetra, One Hand One Heart, Send In The Clowns, Not While I'm Around, Someone Is Waiting, Tonight and Something's Coming. Twenty of Stephen Sondheim songs in all. Barry Manilow, The New York Pops Orchestra and studio musicians were recording the album in January 2016. The album would come out in May 2016. He asked Barbra Striesand if he could use herversion of Putting It Together from the Stephen Sondheim's musical  Sunday In The Park with George. He loved the opening of her version with the guys talking while she sang. Barry was also going to ask Barbara Cook to duet with him again on Look To The Rainbow from Finnan's Rainbow for the album. Just like she did for his Showstoppers album in nineteen ninety,