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This One's for You (Barry Manilow song)

"This One's for You" is the title track from the 1976 album by Barry Manilow with words and music by Manilow and Marty Panzer. The song peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100, and at number one on the Easy Listening chart, reaching the top position for one week in November 1976, Manilow's fifth number one overall on that chart.

Reception
Cash Box said that the song "is perfectly constructed with a commercial feeling in mind" and "a lovely ballad, with touching lyric." Record World said that it is "sung with [Manilow's] inimitable flair." Chicago radio superstation WLS, which gave the song much airplay, ranked "This One's for You" as the 66th most popular hit of 1976. It reached as high as number seven on their survey of November 6, 1976. ==Chart performance==
Chart performance
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Cover versions
Shirley Bassey on her 1977 album, You Take My Heart Away. • Teddy Pendergrass for his 1982 album of the same name. • Filipino singer Kuh Ledesma covered this song in medley with Elton John's breakthrough hit "Your Song" in 1983. • Ray Fisher, an American singer in Northern California, released the song on his album, Forever Fanilow, in May of 2023 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Barry Manilow's first album release and 80th birthday. ==See also==
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