New York City Rhythm

New York City Rhythm is the fictional story of two guys from New York. One is Barack Alon Manilow a pop songwriter, record producer, Broadway songwriter and singer. Barry as his mom always called him is a Jewish boy from Williamsburg Brooklyn New York. Two is Brian Alan Murphy a pop singer. Brian is an Irish boy from Astoria Queens New York. Back in 1973 Barry wrote four songs which he showed to his new friend Ron Dante. They decided to make a demo record and peddle it to different record labels. The last label they peddled it to Bell Records who bought the four songs. Bell Records had just signed to their label singer Brian Murphy. Bell Records bought Barry's four songs for Brian Murphy to record. Brian Murphy's first album shot straight to number one on the Billboard Hot 200 Album chart. When Brian found out Barry had wrote the four song he asked Barry to write some more songs. Also Brian got Barry and Ron to produce his early record albums. That freed Barry up so he could write musicals for Broadway. In 1978 Barry and his two songwriting partners Bruce and Jack got their first musical Copacabana on Broadway. Copacabana became a huge success on Broadway. Copacabana won all the Tony's it was nominated for in 1979. Brian became a huge pop star that all the women fell for. He toured all around the world. Brian even won a Grammy for singing Barry, Jack and Bruce's song Copacabana on his Even Now album. Around 1983 Barry and his songwriting partners wrote a batch of jazz songs. Once the songs were written they had trouble trying to come up with a musical to use those songs in. So they chose to shelve the songs. However Barry wanted the public to hear those songs so he decided to record those songs himself. His songwriting partners thought Barry was nuts. But Barry went a head any way and put the songs on an album. His first album called 2:00AM Paradise Café a jazz album that became a huge success. 2:00AM Paradise Café came out in October 1984. It debuted a number one on Billboard's Hot 200 Album chart. Number one on Billboard's Jazz Album chart. The first single When October Goes debuted at number one on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. Both the album and the first single came out certified quadruple platinum. Then the following year 1985 2:00AM Paradise Café won Grammy Awards for  Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best Jazz Vocal Album, Producer Of The Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. Now Barry had a main secondary career as a singer. He went on his first tour to promote 2:00AM Paradise Café.  That first tour was a complete sell out. Standing room only at every venue he performed at. Barry did go to Europe however he got booed off the stage. He went to Asia and the same thing happened again he got booed off the stage. Barry did have good luck in the US, Canada,  Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand. On a subsequent tour Barry decided to go to South Africa, Mexico and South America. Again when Barry went to these areas of the world he got booed off the stage. So Barry chose to stay with the countries where he wasn't being booed. He finally went to Russia and they embraced him with open arms. No booing this time in Russia. Brian had better luck with the countries where Barry was booed. Barry had four managers throughout his career. Miles Laurie, Garry Kief, Marc Hulett and David Taylor. He also had five personal assistants throughout his career Paul Brownstein, Rodger Wall, Marc Hulett, David Taylor and now Eric Schaefer. Brian on the other hand had only one manager Gregory Knoffler. He had only two personal assistants Ross Jackson and AJ Marcus. Barry from day one had been totally open about his sexuality which was straight.  Some of his celebrity friends thought he was gay and only had romances with men. Which wasn't really true at all. He had girlfriends throughout junior high and senior high. He even married his high school sweetheart Susan Deixler. Barry and Susan were married for a year and nine months before they got their divorce. He took a couple of years no girlfriends to concentrate on finishing Julliard Music School. Before he started having girlfriends again. Lorna Luft, Linda Alsn, Roberta Kent, Dana Robbins, Abigail Stern, Julie Ann Berkovic, Skylar Herzbach and Carly Nichole Simon were Barry's girlfriends. Carly his last girlfriend was the one that Barry realized was the one he wanted to be with forever. Barry wished he had met Carly years ago. Because if he had he would have married her back then. Luckily Barry found Carly six years ago in 2001. In 2013 Barry proposed to Carly. Two years later in 2015 Barry and Carly got married. Brian on the other hand didn't hid his sexuality either. All of his family, fans and friends knew that he was gay. Brian  had a slew of boyfriends before he met his partner and manager Gregory Knoffler. In 2008 Brian and Gregory got married on the beach in the back of their Malibu beach house. Suzie who was also friends with Brian was his best woman. Barry had gotten an invitation but he couldn't go. He was in the middle of a UK tour when Brian and Gregory got married. Barry heard that Liza Minnelli sang at their wedding. Barry didn't know what Liza sang at Brian and Gregory's nuptials.  Brian and Gregory had all their celebrity friends at their wedding. Barry only had two celebrities at his wedding. His very dear friends Melissa Manchester and Richard Marx. In fact Melissa Sang at his and Carly's wedding. She sang Looking Through The Eyes Of Love from Ice Castles as he and Carly walked down the aisle. One thing most people didn't know about Brian and Gregory they had a two kids.  In 2010 they got their friend  Halley who was in her thirties to carry a baby for them. That baby came from Gregory's sperm.  On Wednesday September 7, 2010 at 8AM their daughter Eliza Cathleen Knoffler-Murphy was born. Then three years later Halley got pregnant again this time with Brian's sperm. So on Thursday July 18, 2013 at 6PM Brian Gregory Knoffler-Murphy was born. Eliza was now 7 and Brian was now 4. As for Barry and Carly their kids were furry and had four legs. They had four dogs two Labrador Retrievers and two Pit Bulls.