sunriser. you are a composer. you have been a household name for 50 years. you are about to break elvis presley s record here at the westgate in las vegas. what is it like to be barry manilow? i am just a regular guy. you say all those things it s like you keep forgetting i do those things but i consider myself a working musician. that s why am. i have a great personal life. i love my partner and my dogs. i love making music. so when you remind me there is this other part, barry manilow i have to keep remembering that is a part of me also. if mandy hadn t happened all those years ago i probably would be one of the guys in the band. this thing that happened. it was totally unexpected. i had no desire to do it.
mandy. that song. reporter: to be fair, you might ve been upset about mandy. but you nudged that popstar status along with the song called copacabana. copacabana was an ice cream sundae. it was frothy and fun to do and stylistic. but this, this is, we have to put ourselves in the head of 1920s and 1930s germany. reporter: harmonies relevant now is chilling. with war raging in ukraine, innocent lives disrupted by hate. during this musical now, with everything going on, not just in the world, but with anti- semitism on the rise. unprecedented levels on the rise. i think one of the many joys
always wants to keep it fresh for the audience, a lot of these songs he s got to do mandy every night and i write the songs every night. but for him, i d love a chord change here, change the rhythm here. i don t know if the audience is aware. keeps it fresh for you guys. and for him. one way manilow is keeping it fresh? jigsaw stuff. working in new number that plays on tiktok fame. dancing in the aisles wouldn t be a vegas show or barry manilow one without a little a lot of kitsch. want to show you my favorite thing. i mean, you can t top it. no. haven t even that. would you like the towel? or a boua?
everyone with yellow feathers in their hair. of course. lola with yellow feathers in her hair diehard fanilows, the sense of nostalgia is big part of the appeal. i loved you my whole life. thank you. my wife loves you. nice to meet you. can you take a picture? thank you. all right. oh, mandy when you came and you gave without taking but i sent you away oh, mandy, you kissed me and stopped me from shaking and i need you today oh, mandy
for intolerance under a guy corey stewart, now the prince william county board flipped democratic harry s chart is really important. what it shows is democrats are competing everywhere across the state. if andy hadn t been so effective in some of those coal counties, it wouldn t have been enough. if he hadn t been effective in the cincinnati suburbs, kenton county, boone county, it wouldn t have been enough. he s competing everywhere. democrats are doing that everywhere. and i think that s really the key point. that s how we were able to win at scale in 2018. that s how we won at scale in 2019 and we haven t abated. we are a 50-state party. the democratic governor s association was fantastic. the democratic legislative campaign committee, which works on the state races in virginia, was fantastic. the party chairs in both those states were fantastic. and then most importantly, it s