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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 410530" data-attributes="member: 23">This week I finally got round to importing Barry&#039;s Because It&#039;s Christmas album to iTunes. Discovering it was sequenced, I ended up spending more time with it than planned as I created &quot;clean&quot;, shuffle-friendly versions. Within a short time, I was back on a Manilow jag, playing and replaying old favourites and discovering a couple of new ones.Beyond a number of familiar tracks (mostly some of his better-known tracks, I must confess) I haven&#039;t really dived too deep into Barry&#039;s albums. This felt like the right time to rectify that, soooo....Today I took the plunge and ordered no less than SIX of Bazza&#039;s albums.Five of them are studio albums, coming from Amazon Japan since his albums are evidently out of print here and not the cheapest to buy. The ones on the way run consecutively from 1975&#039;s Tryin&#039; To Get The Feeling through to 1980s Barry album (his first two and the rest of his Eighties albums, sadly, weren&#039;t available to order). Three of these should arrive by the end of the week. The other two will (I hope) follow in due course.And because I couldn&#039;t wait, I also ordered Barry Live In Britain - which came back into print this year - from Amazon UK. That should be arriving tomorrow. I&#039;m expecting some heavy-duty nostalgia with this one as it featured in my parents modest vinyl collection when I was young so was frequently-played.I&#039;m hoping the mastering on all six albums is decent. No credits are to be found online for the Japanese editions, but I&#039;m hoping they&#039;ll be either based on or on a par with Mark Wilder&#039;s Manilow masterings which I like very much.Whatever the case, I&#039;m expecting to enjoy some old favourites and find some new ones in the coming weeks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 410530, member: 23"] This week I finally got round to importing Barry's [I]Because It's Christmas[/I] album to iTunes. Discovering it was sequenced, I ended up spending more time with it than planned as I created "clean", shuffle-friendly versions. Within a short time, I was back on a Manilow jag, playing and replaying old favourites and discovering a couple of new ones. Beyond a number of familiar tracks (mostly some of his better-known tracks, I must confess) I haven't really dived too deep into Barry's albums. This felt like the right time to rectify that, soooo.... Today I took the plunge and ordered no less than SIX of Bazza's albums. Five of them are studio albums, coming from Amazon Japan since his albums are evidently out of print here and not the cheapest to buy. The ones on the way run consecutively from 1975's [I]Tryin' To Get The Feeling [/I]through to 1980s [I]Barry[/I] album (his first two and the rest of his Eighties albums, sadly, weren't available to order). Three of these should arrive by the end of the week. The other two will (I hope) follow in due course. And because I couldn't wait, I also ordered [I]Barry Live In Britain - [/I]which came back into print this year - from Amazon UK. That should be arriving tomorrow. I'm expecting some heavy-duty nostalgia with this one as it featured in my parents modest vinyl collection when I was young so was frequently-played. I'm hoping the mastering on all six albums is decent. No credits are to be found online for the Japanese editions, but I'm hoping they'll be either based on or on a par with Mark Wilder's Manilow masterings which I like very much. Whatever the case, I'm expecting to enjoy some old favourites and find some new ones in the coming weeks. [/QUOTE]

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