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"Brandy", later called "Mandy", is a song written by Scott English and Richard Kerr. [2] It was originally recorded by English in 1971 and reached the top 20 of the UK Singles Chart . "Brandy" was recorded by New Zealand singer Bunny Walters in 1972, but achieved greater success when released in the United States in 1974 by Barry Manilow .
"Mandy" was originally used for an Army-themed musical revue called Yip Yip Yaphank during World War I. For the number, soldiers in the show dressed in blackface and in drag. [4] This song and chorus line was also re-created for the 1942 play and the 1943 Warner Brothers film This Is The Army.
Barry Manilow's 1974 "Mandy" was a cover of a song originally titled "Brandy", released in February 1972 by Scott English; however, Manilow changed the title following the success of the Looking Glass single, so as not to get the two songs confused. [8]
"O Superman", also known as "O Superman (For Massenet)", is a 1981 song by performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson. The song became a surprise hit in the United Kingdom after it was championed by DJ John Peel, [3] rising to number 2 on the UK Singles Charts in 1981. [10]
The album version of "I'm Mandy Fly Me" features an intro in the form of one of the bridge sections of the band's 1974 song "Clockwork Creep". The section, whose lyrics are "Oh, no you'll never get me up in one of these again / 'Cause what goes up must come down", is rendered soft and tinny, as if heard playing from a portable transistor radio or an in-flight audio system.
The song "Oh, Mandy" was released as a single. The song was also featured as the soundtrack to a TV commercial for Sears, the payment for which funded the band's first European tour. [3] [4] In 2008, the band signed to Park the Van Records and released its second full-length album Moonwink.
After Mercer's death, his widow, Ginger Mehan Mercer, arranged to give some unfinished lyrics he had written to Manilow to possibly develop into complete songs. Among these was "When October Goes." Manilow applied his own melody to the lyric and issued it as a single in 1984. [2] The song's first appeared was at Manilow's album 2:00 AM Paradise ...
Mandy.com (Formerly known as Casting Call Pro), UK digital casting website "Mandy", a street name for the drug MDMA, better known as ecstasy "Randy Mandy", nickname for the 2010 Red Bull RB6 Formula One racing car, given to it by driver, Sebastian Vettel