Name: BarryNet Message Board Date/Time: 7/12/2020 2:30 AM Subject: My Favorite Things Song for the Day - July 12, 2020: A Christmas song in July... Barry Manilow's version of "MY FAVORITE THINGS" from his 2002 album A CHRISTMAS GIFT OF LOVE! "My Favorite Things" was written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II in 1959 for the Broadway musical The Sound of Music and the 1965 movie version of the musical. Oscar Greeley Clendenning Ritter von Hammerstein II (1895 - 1960) was born on July 12th.