The Greatest Songs of the Fifties

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The Greatest Songs of the Fifties
Studio album by Barry Manilow
Released	January 31, 2006
Studio	Ocean Way Recording and A&M Studios (Hollywood, California) Schnee Studios (North Hollywood, California) Chalice Recording Studios and Peppertree Studios (Los Angeles, California) O'Henry Sound Studios (Burbank, California) Digital Insight Recording Studios (Las Vegas, Nevada)
Genre	Pop easy listening
Length	39:48
Label	Arista
Producer	Barry Manilow Clive Davis David Benson
Barry Manilow chronology
The Essential Barry Manilow (2005) The Greatest Songs of the Fifties (2006) The Greatest Songs of the Sixties (2006)

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The Greatest Songs of the Fifties is an album by American singer Barry Manilow, released in the United States on January 31, 2006. A significant album for Manilow, it finds the Brooklyn-born crooner taking on songs that were popular in his youth. The project also marked Manilow's return to his former label, Arista, with the company's founder, Clive Davis, setting the singer up with 1950s pop classics much in the way that he steered Rod Stewart in the direction of jazzy standards in his successful The Great American Songbook project.

The album was a hit in the United States. It entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1, giving him the second chart-topping album of his career. His only other No. 1 album was Barry Manilow Live, in 1977. This is also the highest-debuting album of his career, selling over 150,000 copies in its opening week and besting the No. 3 opening of Ultimate Manilow in 2002.