Manilow Disorder

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I have it on good authority that when the inmates at? the Guantanamo Camp?get out of hand, the guards play Barry Mainilow's Greatest Hits Album over the PA system.?? The misbehaving?prisoners quickly cease their nefarious activities --- they promise the guards that they
will behave provided they don't have to listen to the record.? Mr. Manilow should be congratulated on his service to our country.????


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill O'Neill <billohno@gmail.com>
To: Boston Radio Interest <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 1:20 pm
Subject: Manilow Disorder


Oh, the humanity. The hits of Barry Manilow are now a court-ordered implement of punishment in a Colorado town for 'perps' who blast their idea of music too loudly. "These people should have to listen to music they don't like," said Judge Paul Sacco for a segment about the program that aired Friday on KUSA-TV Denver.?
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The now-sixty-five-year-old 70s popper, for many, was a deservedly cruel hoax upon the "me generation" of the Seventies. From "Mandy" to "I Write the Songs" to "Ships" and the /'take that you hippie'/ "Daybreak", the sounds of Manilow was to music what the Chrysler K-Car was to wheels. Dependable, ubiquitous, safe, and low-art, Manilow music was, indeed, the K-Car of Seventies music.?
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As a radio disc jockey on 'adult contemporary' stations back in the Eighties, my brain will forever have in deep-storage the sounds of Manilow. Years of fresh air, thoughts of baseball, and an appreciation for silence have moved me far ahead of many fellow radio buddies who were less fortunate to break free from the sound that was Manilow.?
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And no, there is no 12-step program for this Manilow disorder. If there were to be one, we could call it "Onanonanonanon... The Twelve Step Program for People Who Can't Stop from /Getting' that Feelin' /Again."?
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Bill O'Neill?
-- I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.?
/Rodney Dangerfield/?