This One's for You (Barry Manilow song)

"This One's for You"
Single by Barry Manilow
from the album This One's for You
B-side "Riders to the Stars"
Released September 1976
Format 7" single
Length 3:25
Label Arista
Writer(s) Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer
Producer(s) Barry Manilow, Ron Dante
Barry Manilow singles chronology
"Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again"
(1976)
"This One's for You"
(1976)
"Weekend in New England"
(1976)

"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. "This One's for You" peaked at number twenty-nine on the Billboard Hot 100, and it was Manilow's fifth number one on the Easy Listening chart, reaching the top position for one week in November 1976.[1] "This One's for You" was followed by the single, "Weekend in New England". The song was covered by Teddy Pendergrass for his 1982 album, "This One's For You." An early version of the song appears on Manilow's compilation box set, The Complete Collection and Then Some....

Chicago radio superstation WLS, which gave the song much airplay, ranked "This One's For You" as the 66th most popular hit of 1976.[2] It reached as high as number seven on their survey of November 6, 1976.

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1976) Peak
position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[3] 28
Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)[4] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[5] 29
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[6] 1
US Cash Box Top 100[7] 21

Year-end charts

Chart (1976) Rank
Canadian RPM Top Singles [8] 193
U.S. (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)[9] 170

See also

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 155.
  2. "The WLS Big 89 of 1976". Wlshistory.com.
  3. "Top RPM Singles: Issue 5118A." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
  4. "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 5148." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
  5. "Barry Manilow – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Barry Manilow.
  6. "Barry Manilow – Chart history" Billboard Adult Contemporary for Barry Manilow.
  7. "Cash Box Top 100 10/30/76". Tropicalglen.com. 1976-10-30. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  8. "Top Singles – Volume 26, No. 14 & 15, January 08 1977". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
  9. Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
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