Looks Like We Made It

Looks Like We Made It

Infobox Single
Name = Looks Like We Made It


Artist = Barry Manilow
from Album = This One's For You
B-side = "New York City Rhythm (Live)"
Released = 20 April 1977
Format = 7"
Recorded =
Genre =
Length = 3:33
Label = Arista
AS 0244 (USA, 7")
Writer = Richard Kerr and Will Jennings
Producer = Ron Dante
Certification =
Chart position =

  • #1 (U.S.)
  • #5 (United World Chart)

Last single =
This single =
Next single =
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = This One's For You
Type = studio
Tracks =
#"This One's For You"
#"Daybreak"
#"You Oughta Be Home With Me"
#"Jump Shout Boogie"
#"Weekend in New England"
#"Riders To The Stars"
#"Let Me Go"
#"Looks Like We Made It"
#"Say The Words"
#"All The Time"
#"(Why Don't You) See The Show Again"

"Looks Like We Made It" is a song by American singer Barry Manilow, from his 1976 album, "This One's For You", composed by Richard Kerr with lyrics by Will Jennings. It was released as a single on 20 April 1977.

Overview

The song was first released in 1976 on his album "This One's For You", and it was released as a single in 1977 where it reached the number one spot on both the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart.

Despite the optimism suggested by the song's title, the narrator is actually ruminating on the fact that he and his ex-lover have finally found happiness and fulfillment -- though not with each other. They have, indeed, "made it," but apart, not together. In "The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits" by Wesley Hyatt (p. 208), songwriter Will Jennings commented, "Richard [Kerr] and I have often remarked on the people, millions of them in the world, who misunderstood the lyric of 'Looks Like We Made It.' It is a rather sad and ironic lyric about making it apart and not together, and of course everyone thinks it is a full on, positive statement. I don't know. Perhaps it is... in a way."Fact|date=February 2008

Track listing

*7" AS 0244
#"Looks Like We Made It" – 3:33
#"New York City Rhythm (Live)"

References

Hyatt, Wesley. "The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits." "Looks Like We Made It," page 208. Billboard Books, 1999.


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