The Continuing Saga

I'm driving home from work the other day. I had the radio on the oldies station where they play hits from the 60's and 70's. Because I'm old. And I want to think back to the days when good music was all around. They rarely play Barry Manilow on this station and if they do it is either "Mandy" or "I Write the Songs".

I was singing along to Bohemian Rhapsody while I was driving, ending the song with a crash of my imaginary gong. "Any way the wind blows" **crash** The next song up was a Barry song. Being that I was still pretty upset, I almost changed the channel. But the song wasn't the normal Barry song but "Let's Hang On".

Let's hang on
to what we've got.
Don't let go, girl
we've got alot.
Got a lot of love between us
Hang on, hang on, hang on
to what we've got.

At first I was mad. "Don't try to sweet talk me, Mr. Manilow!" I screamed at my radio. "It's going to take a lot more than this to repair the damage that has been done!" This one-sided argument continued through most of the song. But of course by the end of the song, the ice was being to thaw and I was smiling in the little Barry piece of my heart.

Thirty-three years is a long, long time to be a devoted fan of something or someone. Especially, if you are constantly ridiculed for being a fan of that person. I had to put up with a lot to be a Barry fan so possibly I can forgive him this one transgression. It was probably more of a publicity stunt than anything, it just surprised me because he doesn't use stunts like that. I just have to remember that the music is all that matters. And I'm a sucker for Mr. Manilow's music.

Comments

[Booklover]

Yes, several of the news items suggested it was nothing more than a publicity stunt. Think about it, thousands of us would never have known that his latest CD was out if he hadn't made that hulabaloo with The View. And women like you who talked about it advertised it even more. :-) Barry certainly knew what he was doing.

[Patia]

You totally crack me up.

[Pandora]

I hope you mean that in a good way Patia! :-)

[Patia]

Of course.