Song:Ready To Take A Chance Again
Album:Ultimate Manilow
Of course Barry Manilow was very popular in the 70s. He had several big hits. Ready To Take A Chance Again was an orphan because it didn't appear on one of his albums. It is from the 1978 film Foul Play. The film starred Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn and was directed by Colin Higgins. It's a comic homage to Alfred Hitchcock. The score was composed by Charles Fox who is probably best known for writing Killing Me Softly With his Song which was a huge hit for Roberta Flack. That song was an exception but Fox usually wrote songs for TV and film with partner Norman Gimbel. And that was true of Ready To Take A Chance Again. Manilow had just scored a big hit with Copacabana from his 1978 album Even Now. Paramount Pictures no longer owned a record company. So they licensed the Foul Play music to Arista. In return, Arista had Manilow record the movie theme. Manilow and his usual producer Ron Dante produced Ready To Take A Chance Again and it played over the opening credits of the film. It reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100. But it did not appear on a Manilow album. The song appeared on the Foul Play soundtrack which mostly contains Fox's score and an abbreviated version of Copacabana. The soundtrack is available on CD. The one bonus track is the theme from the Foul Play TV series. Not all Manilow comps have this song but Ultimate Manilow does and it's available as a budget comp. This is the only time Manilow recorded a song for a film during his heyday. He recorded a couple of songs for films in the 90s but he wasn't as successful by then. Here's Ready To Take A Chance Again by Barry Manilow as it appeared over the opening credits of the 1978 film Foul Play.
I still remember hearing him back in the 70's. All of the guys in school hated him with a passion!! He was very popular with the women, but to the men he was way to soft for them. I listened to his music but never really liked his music. It sounded to easy and soft and for another day and age, like the 50's or 40's. Still, I wish him well, he did have some great moments and fame.
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