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This One's for You (Barry Manilow song)
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Wikipedia article
"'This One's for You'" is the title track from the 1976 album by Barry Manilow with words and music by Manilow and Marty Panzer. The song peaked at number 29 on the 'Billboard' Hot 100, and at number one on the Easy Listening chart, reaching the top position for one week in November 1976, Manilow's fifth number one overall on that chart.
An early version of the song appears on Manilow's compilation box set, 'The Complete Collection and Then Some...'.
Reception
'Cash Box' said that the song "is perfectly constructed with a commercial feeling in mind" and "a lovely ballad, with touching lyric."
Chicago radio superstation WLS, which gave the song much airplay, ranked "This One's for You" as the 66th most popular hit of 1976.
It reached as high as number seven on their survey of November 6, 1976.
Chart performance
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Cover versions
*Shirley Bassey on her 1977 album, 'You Take My Heart Away'.
*Teddy Pendergrass for his 1982 album of the same name.
* Filipino singer Kuh Ledesma covered this song in medley with Elton John's breakthrough hit "Your Song" in 1983.
See also
*List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1976 (U.S.)
References
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