Barry Manilow performs Tuesday, July 7 at the Blue Cross Arena.
Sneer all you want: Barry Manilow has sold more than 75 million records over his four-decade career. What have you done lately? Manilow got his start as a supporting act, playing piano for Bette Midler when she performed on the San Francisco bathhouse circuit. He then went solo with undeniably catchy songs like "Mandy," "Looks Like We Made It," and "Copacabana," feeding lite rock/adult-contemporary radio stations with the kind of aural crack that makes them so impossible to turn off. He's also behind some of the most notable commercial jingles of our time, including State Farm Insurance. Put your irony aside and join the man who writes the songs in all his cheesy, sing-a-long glory this week at Blue Cross.
Barry Manilow
Tuesday, July 7
Blue Cross Arena, 1 War Memorial Sq.
$9.99-$119.99 | 8 p.m. | 232-1900
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crystal said on Jul. 01, 2009 at 5:04pm
Barry Manilow and Bette Midler never performed in any bathhouse in San Francisco and the only one they ever performed in at all was the Continental Baths in New York. That was in addition to the nightclub circuit they worked in the early seventies before Bette was signed to Atlantic Records and Barry was offered a contract with Bell records which later became Arista. They have both said more than once that it was only one bathhouse and only for a few nights but yet that myth persists. I hope this sets the record straight for some people.
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