Name: BarryNet Briefs Date/Time: 11/4/2019 10:21 PM Subject: Introducing Barry Manilow "Introducing Barry Manilow: The 22-year-old was just another run-of-the-mill CBS employee at the time" by Wolfgang Wild Considerable., 04 November 2019 Harold and Edna Pincus’ little boy, Barry Pincus, was born and bred in Brooklyn in 1943. Here, 22 years later, he is pictured funding his studies via a part-time job. Not just any studies, though, and not just any part-time job. In 1965, Barry was a student at the New York College of Music, and the job he bagged was working at CBS records. It was CBS who took these photos. Why? Actually, there was no real reason - CBS didn’t have some kind of musical crystal ball revealing the future transformation of Barry Pincus into Barry Manilow (Edna’s maiden name). Rather, these were run-of-the-mill work shots to record yet another employee ... It was CBS that inadvertently created a future for Manilow when, in 1964, Barry met CBS director Bro Herrod. Herrod asked Manilow to arrange some songs for an off-Broadway production. In return, Manilow slightly over-delivered by providing an entire score. The show ran for eight years. Much of the remainder of Manilow’s 1960s were spent churning out -- and singing on -- advertising jingles, including McDonalds, KFC, Pepsi, Band-Aid and Dr Pepper. Less than ten years later, he was a bona fide star!