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.^[1]

"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
Length	3:25
Label	Arista
Songwriter(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)

An early version of the song appears on Manilow's compilation box set, The Complete Collection and Then Some....

Reception

Cash Box said that the song "is perfectly constructed with a commercial feeling in mind" and "a lovely ballad, with touching lyric."^[2] Record World said that it is "sung with [Manilow's] inimitable flair."^[3]

Chicago radio superstation WLS, which gave the song much airplay, ranked "This One's for You" as the 66th most popular hit of 1976.^[4] It reached as high as number seven on their survey of November 6, 1976.^[5]

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1976)	Peak position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[6]	28
Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)[7]	1
US Billboard Hot 100[8]	29
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[9]	1
US Cash Box Top 100[10]	21
US Radio & Records	23

Year-end charts

Chart (1976)	Rank
Canadian RPM Top Singles [11]	193
U.S. (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)[12]	170

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

• List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1976 (U.S.)

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 155.
2. "CashBox Singles Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. September 11, 1976. p. 20. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
3. "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. September 11, 1976. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
4. "The WLS Big 89 of 1976". Wlshistory.com.
5. "WLS Musicradio Survey". Oldies Loon. 1976-11-06. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
6. "Top RPM Singles: Issue 5118A." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
7. "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 5148." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
8. "Barry Manilow Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
9. "Barry Manilow Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
10. "Cash Box Top 100 10/30/76". Tropicalglen.com. 1976-10-30. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
11. "Top Singles – Volume 26, No. 14 & 15, January 08 1977". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Archived from the original on June 10, 2016. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
12. Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.

External links

• Barry Manilow - This One's for You on YouTube