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Barry Manilow<\/strong> is such an icon that he doesn\u2019t just make a video: He releases a \u201cmusic film.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In this case, it\u2019s for his current single, \u201c<\/span>Once Before I Go<\/span><\/a>.\u201d Filmed at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, where Manilow does his regular residency, it opens in 1976, as a crowd cheers for Barry and a woman sits in a backstage corridor, dejectedly reading a letter.<\/span><\/p>\n The video then cuts back and forth between the woman and Barry in the present day, who keeps imagining her \u2014 along with a young girl and a little boy. According to a press release, Barry is portraying \u201ca character who sacrifices a traditional family life to pursue his dream as a performer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOnce Before I Go,\u201d whose lyrics reflect the fact that Manilow, 82, has been giving farewell concerts in select U.S. cities, was produced by Kenneth \u201cBabyface\u201d Edmonds<\/strong>. Manilow\u2019s next run of farewell shows begins Jan. 6 in Sunrise, Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n Also in 2026, Manilow is set to receive the President\u2019s Award from the American Advertising Federation, in recognition of the fact that, prior to finding stardom, he produced, composed and sang iconic commercial jingles for brands including State Farm, Band-Aids, Dr. Pepper, KFC and McDonald\u2019s. He later famously <\/span>performed those songs<\/span><\/a> on his<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>1977 #1 album<\/span> Barry Manilow Live<\/span><\/em>, under the title \u201cA Very Strange Medley.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ruralradio.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barry Manilow is such an icon that he doesn\u2019t just make a video: He releases a \u201cmusic film.\u201d In this case, it\u2019s for his current single, \u201cOnce Before I Go.\u201d Filmed at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, where Manilow does his regular residency, it opens in 1976, as a crowd cheers for Barry and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2150096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Barry-Manilow-releases-\u2018music-film-for-new-single-\u2018Once-Before.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150097,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150095\/revisions\/2150097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2150096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}