"Even Now" spun off four of Barry's best singles in 1978: "Can't Smile Without You", the title track, "Copacabana", and "Somewhere In The Night." "Copa" is the best disco song ever by a non-disco act. (This is high praise in my book. Everybody tried to get a disco hit in the late '70's and the failures make a fantastic tape.) It still sounds great today, and how can anyone get tired of that intense storyline? I've heard "Can't Smile" and "Somewhere In The Night" on other artist's records; the arrangements here run rings around them all. Proof of BM's skills as an arranger. The moody title track is also a highlight.

Most of the remaining tracks are worth the purchase. "Leavin' In The Morning" is catchy bubblegum-rock with coproducer Ron Dante's fingerprints all over it. "I Was A Fool (To Let You Go)" is an early example of the jazzy pop Barry eventually came to favor during much of the '90's. There used to be some intrigue as to whether "A Linda Song" was about our hero's real-life girlfriend Linda Allen. Or maybe not. And there are echoes of the Stylistics in the arrangement for "I Just Want To Be The One In Your Life," a pretty love song. On the down side, Barry's New Yawk accent is a bit too noticeable on a couple of songs; his phrasing definitely improved over time. The bonus track "No Love For Jenny" is average, but better by far than the album's worst song, "Losing Touch." Overall, one of Barry Manilow's best albums ever, and worth getting if you have any interest in him at all.

This was always my all-time favorite number one album of all of Barry's CD's. (That is until Here At The Mayflower!)

This album has many of the tunes you'll know including the Grammy award winning Copacabana, Can't Smile Without You (A crownd pleaser!) and Where Do I Go From Here?

My favorites on this album will always be Somewhere Down The Road and the title track Even Now. The arrangments of the strings and woodwinds on this album are the best I have ever heard.

The songs speak of Love, Hurt and Hope. Technically I think this and Mayflower are the best engineering for sound and mixing.

This is a must for every Manilow collection!

This is not my favorite Barry CD. (I have a respectable collection.) This is a good CD, with 14 tracks, many I've never heard before. It has been digitally remastered from the original 1978 release. Song quality is great. Total album time is a wee bit over 48 minutes. There is a booklet included, with the words of most of the songs, so you can sing along if you want to.

There are classic versions of the Barry classics: "Copacabana" runs a tad shy of 6 minutes. The subtle-sexy "Somewhere in the Night" is included "..lovin' so warm, movin' so right, closin' our eyes, and feelin' the light.." (I LOVE that song). "Even Now" and "Can't Smile Without You" are also included in their familiar versions.

"A Linda Song" and "No Love for Jenny" are not included on many albums, but are included here. They are good songs, just sad songs. I do like the beat in "Leavin' in the Mornin'" even though that's a bit sad too. "I Was a Fool to Let You Go" is kind of almost a blues. I like "I Just Want to be the One in Your Life" a lot. The others are all good songs: "Sunrise; I'm Comin' Home Again; Where Do I Go From Here; and Losing Touch."

I love everything Barry does. With that said, the album is mainly "slow songs" and some of it is a bit sad for my taste. Not to say there is anything wrong with that. Some people need to sort of vent their own experiences through sad songs, so they can release the grief or sadness they are holding within themselves. Sad songs have a definitive purpose. You NEVER want to hold on to grief, anger, sadness, etc. They will make you ill.

With that said, for me, I prefer more upbeat songs overall, but this is still a great album.

The variety in this album has never been paralleled. From the kitschy "Copa" to the incredibly stirring "Somewhere in the Night", this album touches every type of music that only Barry can perform. My all-time personal favorite, that alas, I have never had the pleasure of hearing him sing in concert, is "I Just Want To Be the One In Your Life." This album is a classic that every Manilow fan must own.

When my Mom bought this album brand new back in 1978, it was played all the time in our house. I would forget the mellodies of Barry Manillow over time as I got to know other great artists. It is sad that he is so dated as only a hero of the New York City sound of the 1970s, and now an old crooner who no longer is on the Bilboard charts.

The songs are beautiful and magical especially Somewhere in the Night and Even Now as well as Starting Again plus Sunrise and Where Do I Go From Here as well as Losing Touch. I love the extended version of Copacabana {At The Copa} which is better than the original version. Yes I know that the original was special for so many, but this version I never heard, and it is GREAT. The haunting Linda Song is so typical the fractured fairy tale of a songwriter and the woman who he ignores, for so many artists struggle and starve, with love being lost on the way. I was a fool to let you go is a great tribute to the Jazz of Big Band. So classic New York City Piano Bar! I Cant Smile Without You is another great song about lost love and the same with the beautifully Rock driven Leaving in the Morning.

The album cover is so romantic and special for I love New York City so much and it gives a true romantic feel and capture of that skyline at sunset or sunrise and at dusk as well as nightime.

God bless you Barry as a true symbol of a time long gone when songwriters who knew what they were doing dominated the charts.