Dr_Bombay on Nostr: In listening to an NPR interview with Barry Manilow this morning, I learned that he ...
In listening to an NPR interview with Barry Manilow this morning, I learned that he also wrote the Band-Aids jingle, the State Farm Insurance jingle (“And like a good neighbor…”), the Pepsi generation jingle, and many others that I can instantly sing, even though they are decades old. What a genius that man is.
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