Customer Rating: Summary: Manilow remembers the 80's..with style Comment: Barry Manilow's fourth album tribute to a decade of music has it's hits and misses. A duet with Reba McEntire covering "Islands in the Streams" is the best cut on the album. Manilow also does justice to Journey's "Open Arms" but misses the mark on such selections as "I've had the time of my life" and "I just called to say I Love you". Overall the album is a fun walk down memory lane. Customer Rating: Summary: Barry, great in any decade Comment: Just when I thought there was no great music from the eighties, Barry came along and proved me wrong. He has an amazing ability to take any piece of music--whether his own composition or someone else's--and make it uniquely his own in a beautiful way. Customer Rating: Summary: barry's cd review Comment: As all of Barry's CD's are, once again he has a great musical product.Now wonder his career continues to be on top. Customer Rating: Summary: A BARRY GOOD CD Comment: IF YOU LIKE BARRY MANILOW AND YOU LIKED THE 50'S, 60'S AND 70'S CD, YOU WILL LIKE THIS ONE. HE DOESN'T AGE! Customer Rating: Summary: LOVE BARRY Comment: I love BARRY MANILOW so anything he does is 5 star with me...and the songs brought back nice memories.
The Greatest Songs of The Eighties is the next release in a best-selling series of tribute albums of popular music which includes The Greatest Songs of The Fifties, The Greatest Songs Of The Sixties and The Greatest Songs Of The Seventies whose cumulative sales, along with Ultimate Manilow have surpassed 5 million units worldwide. The Greatest Songs of The Eighties continues the productive and successful reunion between Manilow and Clive Davis, Arista founder and Chief Creative Officer, Sony BMG. Davis has been Manilow's hitmaking collaborator on virtually all his recordings, since they first worked together on "Mandy". His debut #1 single, as the first artist signed to Arista by Davis in 1974. The two produced The Greatest Songs of The Fifties, The Greatest Songs Of The Sixties and The Greatest Songs Of The Seventies together, and that magic has carried over to the new album as well.