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Beyond Yacht Rock

123. UNDERCOVERS: BURIED MANILOW

Beyond Yacht Rock

Dixon Denim Cutoffs, LLC

Music, Yachtrock, Music Commentary

5892 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Steve presents a learned treatise on the original versions of soft-rock songs best known in their recordings by Barry Manilow.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All the way back in episode 9 of Beyond Yacht Rock original flavor, Dave gave us the genre glam

0:06.1

undercovers, songs you probably knew but likely not in their original British glam rock versions.

0:12.0

Today I'm reviving this concept and taking it down a whole new avenue, an avenue in New York

0:17.7

City. Now, we all know the many hit recordings of my childhood musical hero, Barry Manilow,

0:23.6

but a lot of people don't know that before many of those hits found their way to Barry,

0:27.7

they were first recorded by other fellow travelers in the soft rock universe.

0:32.7

Welcome to a new edition of undercovers that I like to call,

0:36.5

Buried Manilow.

0:39.0

Thank you.

0:42.0

Beyond Yad Rock 2000.

0:47.3

Welcome to Beyond Yad Rock 2000, the greatest music podcast on the internet.

0:51.9

It's all about genres.

0:53.0

We create new genres.

0:54.0

Count down the top 10 songs from 10 to 1. My name is J.D. Riznard. I'm Hollywood, Steve. Hunter. Dave. Why can't Hunter get that? I don't know. It's the delay. It's the vacation delay. I forget that I'm next after Steve. Oh, my God. It's so easy to remember. It's,

1:14.4

but I remember eventually, but only after. After you hear silence. It takes my butt to get to my brain.

1:22.6

Yeah. After I'm sitting next to Steve. After you sit and listen to dead air. That's when he realizes. Yeah. But we're not going to give you a hard time, Hunter. We're happy you're stepping away from your vacation to keep on cordon to not giving me a hard time. And thanks for being here. I really appreciate it. Yeah. No problem. So we like to start off every episode of this show throwing a bow into one of the old genres we created.

1:45.3

Today is my turn.

1:46.7

I'm going to do one that I created.

1:50.1

Yeah, I get a vibe from Steve Piccaro.

1:54.3

It's, that vibe is, hey, stupid mean brothers, look what I can do.

1:58.7

And then he does something really awesome and his brother still don't respect him.

2:03.2

His brother Jeff passed in the early 90s and Mike in 2015, so without fear of

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