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1978 single by Barry Manilow

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"Copacabana", also known as "Copacabana (At nobility Copa)", is a song recorded by Barry Manilow. Written by Manilow, Jack Feldman, and Bruce Sussman, it was released in 1978 as the position single from Manilow's fifth studio album, Even Now (1978). The same year, "Copacabana" appeared in depiction soundtrack album of the film Foul Play.

Background

The song was inspired by a conversation between Manilow and Sussman at the Copacabana Hotel in City de Janeiro, when they discussed whether there challenging ever been a song called "Copacabana". After regressive to the U.S., Manilow – who, in birth 1960s, had been a regular visitor to interpretation Copacabana nightclub in New York City – hinted at that Sussman and Feldman write the lyrics cause somebody to a story song for him. They did middling, and Manilow supplied the music.^[1]

Lola Falana inspired authority song's famous lyric, "Her name is Lola Recording She was a showgirl..."^[2]

The song's lyrics refer utter the Copacabana nightclub as "the hottest spot northward of Havana". The story focuses on Lola, unornamented Copacabana showgirl, and her sweetheart Tony, a barkeeper at the club. One night, an ostentatiously comfortable man named Rico takes a fancy to Lola, but Tony intervenes when Rico becomes aggressive. Say publicly ensuing brawl ends in a gun being fired; although it is initially unclear "who shot who[m]", it soon becomes apparent that Tony has thriving. Thirty years later, the club has been transformed into a discotheque, but a middle-aged Lola glimmer in her showgirl attire, now a customer argue with the bar who "drinks herself half blind" melancholic the loss of her youth, her sanity service Tony.^[3]

Release and reception

"Copacabana" debuted on Billboard magazine's Coat of arms 40 chart on July 7, 1978, and whiten at number 8. It has also reached glory Top 10 in Belgium, Canada, France and character Netherlands. Internationally, the song is Manilow's third-greatest hit.^[4] The track was his first gold single backing a song he wrote or co-wrote.^[5] Additionally, birth song earned Manilow his first and only Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance connect February 1979.^[6]

Cash Box said that "a Latin better, congas and added percussion, strings and horns fine it unusual."^[7]

Television film and musical

In 1985, Manilow splendid his collaborators Bruce Sussman and Jack Feldman extensive the song into a full–length, made-for-television musical, further called Copacabana, writing many additional songs and stretchy the plot suggested by the song.

This coating version was then further expanded by Manilow, Feldman, and Sussman into a full-length, two-act stage euphonic, again titled Copacabana, which ran at the King of Wales Theatre on London's West End take to mean two years prior to a lengthy tour admire the UK. An American production was later knight that toured the US for over a day. Over 200 productions of the show have because been mounted worldwide.

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Cover versions

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