Music Monday: Barry Manilow and his 1974 hit “Mandy”
Posted By RichC on February 17, 2025
Although this season’s blowout of a Super Bowl has been almost forgotten by all but Philadelphia Eagles fans (and definitely forgotten by Kansas City Chiefs fans), the halftime show stands out as one I could have easily pass on. To each their own I suppose?
Anyway, some of the chatter on social media was “why don’t they invite someone like a Barry Manilow” (suspect the comment was from someone older?); I personally had not thought about him for years, but as I was reading it, up popped his 1974 hit “Mandy” on my SiriusXM 70s on 7 channel (also see “Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl”).
So with two references at the same time, the song lock it’s place in for Music Monday.
| Barry Manilow – “Mandy” | 1974 |
“Mandy” is a song by Barry Manilow that was released in 1974 and became his first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening chart. The song was originally titled “Brandy” and written by Scott English and Richard Kerr, but Manilow changed the title to avoid confusion with Looking Glass’s “Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)”.
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