"It’s a Miracle" Barry Manilow

I need to sit down and recreate the single edit of "It's A
Miracle".

I'm told from inside sources that Barry hates "Oh Julie" and has final say on every compilation CD that Arista/Sony puts out, and he simply doesn't allow this song to make it to CD (not even one time.) That's why the boxed set from the '90s (which would have been the perfect place) doesn't even have it. I actually like the song a lot. Luckily, it's found one place on CD - the Japanese '94 CD release of the '82 "Here Comes the Night" album. But be careful - there's also a Japanese '88 CD release of the album, and it contains "Oh Julie" with a lot more instruments and voices added on top of the original mix. It's actually a "fuller" mix in terms of overall aesthetics, but of course, most of us completists want the original mix on CD. For a time, I liked both mixes equally, but now I'm favoring the "fuller" mix a bit, even though it wasn't the official mix, and nobody still seems to know where that came from. I assume it was mixed in '82, and that Barry & Arista decided to chuck it and simply use the stripped down mix.

I'm not surprised "The Old Songs" single edit (with a few seconds cut out) hasn't been released on CD, but it IS surprising the actual edited single mix of "It's a Miracle" hasn't made it to one CD.

As for "Could It Be Magic" single mix/edit making it to CD, that's because of one person I know in L.A. that was somewhat involved with the project and informed them about the single mix/edit and really pushed for it to be included.

Edited by EdisonLite

The Hits Man wrote: I wonder if he also influenced them to include the 45 version of "Copacabana" too.

As far as I know, the only Manilow CD that has the short 45 of "Copacabana" is his 1978 Greatest Hits album (the Foul Play soundtrack doesn't count--that wasn't a Barry Manilow album per se). Every other CD of his either uses the long 45 or the (4:04) Even Now vinyl LP version.

Which reminds me, Pat never did change the notation for all (4:04) versions of "Copa"--those versions are all the Even Now vinyl LP version (while the Even Now CD uses the long 45 version).

Edited by sriv94

I was speaking above of "Copacabana."

I keep making that mistake. It's not on the Essential BM.
Disregard.

Edited by The Hits Man