Barry Manilow - Read Em and Weep

[gonecountry]

Not a huge Barry Manilow fan, but I am not ashamed to say I enjoy this one and love 90% of Jim Steinman's work:

I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) - Meatloaf
Holding Out For a Hero - Bonnie Tyler (and of course Total Eclipse)
It's All Coming Back to Me Now - Celine Dion
Left in the Dark - Barbra Streisand
Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through - Jim Steinman

The Air Supply song sucks...


This one hit #18 in 1983.

[areyoureadytojump]

MTV certainly did not play this video in 1983!

[gonecountry]

RIP Jim Steinman and thanks for giving Barry one last hit. I really enjoyed this one.

[areyoureadytojump]

40 years ago this week, "Read Em and Weep" debuted at #53 on the November 19, 1983 Billboard Hot 100. It was the highest debut that week.

American Music Awards in 1985:



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_%27Em_and_Weep

#17 UK
#18 R&R: gghunt.utasites.cloud/charts/bmanilow.html

[johnm1120]

The number of Barry songs I can listen to are few and far between. This is one of them.

[jdanton2]

i prefer most of his earlier songs to this. as mentioned this was his last hit .