Copacabana (song)
1978
Copacabana is a song from 1978, sung by Barry Manilow, written by Jack Feldman, Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman. It is also known under the title Copacabana (At the Copa ). The package is implemented entirely in the spirit of the disco era of the late 1970s.
Background
The title of the song refers to the famous eponymous New York nightclub. It tells the story of Lola, a nightclub hostess, and her lover Tony, a bartender of the club, which is of Rico, a Mafia boss with an amorous interest in Lola, murdered.
Publication and success
Copacabana reached the Billboard Top 40 charts on July 7, 1978 Place 8 The recording brought Manilow in February 1979 his first and only recipient of the Grammy Award and the first gold single for a song composed by him.
The recording was a very crooked Tour ( Foul Play ) ( 1978) with Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn in the film used as background music and occurred in about a dozen other movies. The single version lasts 4:08, the longer disco version Copacabana (At the Copa ) ( Disco ) 5:46. Instead of a conventional 12 " single was the long version on the B - side of the 45's and is also found on Manilow's first Greatest Hits album.
Manilow has published shortly after the English a Spanish version as a 12 " Disco Single, Copacabana ( En el Copa ) that it may not make it into Billboard's Hot 100, but was used by dance club DJs.
A - but cut - demo recording can be found in 4CD/1DVD Box Set The Complete Collection and Then Some ....
Musical
1985 extended Manilow and his co-authors Sussman and Feldman the song in a TV musical of the same name. They wrote songs for many additional and extended from the outlined in Song history. This film version was later extended by their authors in a two-act stage musical, the West End was shown over two years at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London before it took a long tour of the United Kingdom. A subsequent American production toured for over a year by the United States. Over 200 productions of the show have been performed since then worldwide.