http://meanlittlebumblebee.com/2009/06/17/national-holiday/ Music. Obsessed. Wed, 23 May 2012 07:00:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://meanlittlebumblebee.com/2009/06/17/national-holiday/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:25:41 +0000 http://meanlittlebumblebee.com/?p=150#comment-42 Barry Manilow didn’t even write Mandy; it was written by Richard Kerr and Scott English and Scott had a minor hit with Mandy in the UK as an uptempo pop song a few years before Clive Davis found it for Barry. Early one morning, a reporter who had tracked Scott down called him and asked Scott who Mandy was, to which Scott replied, “my dog but I sent her away. Now you go away.” and banged the phone down before going back to sleep. So now you know, Mandy isn’t about a cat or dog much less Barry’s cat or dog. By the way, Barry was once asked during an interview in Japan if he liked cats and his answer was no so I doubt he’s ever owned one. Right now he owns two labrador retrievers but I don’t know their names.

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