Word: manilow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year- old creative and financial partnership between two men -- Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli -- that is highly unusual, if not unique, in the world of business. Gaudio, 46, is a composer, pianist, arranger and producer who has worked on records with Sinatra, Ross, Diamond, Michael Jackson and Barry Manilow. Valli, 53, is the veteran pop singer whose high-pitched voice (a critic once likened it to an air-raid siren) still packs in audiences at basketball arenas, concert halls, nightclubs and casinos. Both men were original members of the Four Seasons, the famed rock group that next month will launch...
...more than 15 years ago and his career took off on a different course from Valli's, their fortunes have remained intertwined. Reason: they are still partners despite their professional separation, and they split all income -- whoever earns it -- down the middle. When Gaudio co-produced the music for Manilow's TV special Copacabana, he gave half of his earnings to Valli, who had nothing to do with the show. When Valli headlined a big concert last year at New Jersey's Meadowlands Arena, Gaudio got half the profits even though he was in London producing the sound track...
Bette's pianist and arranger was young Barry Manilow, just a few years short of his own, more comfortable stardom. Their first rehearsals were "nothing special, almost dull," as Manilow recalls them. "I played and she sang. But then we did it in front of an audience. She came downstairs in this turban and an outfit that could have come from my grandmother's closet. She was a tornado of energy and talent. I was six feet away, and this vision was one of the thunderbolts in my life." Another fan-Aaron Russo, signed on as Midler's manager...
...Girl Productions, "she's basically shy. She'd never think of wearing anything low cut. She calls herself a librarian." No dust on this star's bookshelves. "She's a cleanliness freak," notes Bruckheimer-Martell. "She calls herself Harriet Craig, after the Joan Crawford character who was constantly cleaning." Manilow recalls Bette's perfectionism, "from neatness at home to the 95th take of a song. Once we were walking on a Chicago beach, deep in conversation. She kept picking up bottles and caps, all this crap in the middle of our heavy talk, dumping it into the garbage pail...
...Saturday--Engelbert Humperdinck and Barry Manilow headline the stadium concert highlighting the festivities...