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“I Write the Songs” is a popular song written by Bruce Johnston in 1975 and made famous by Barry Manilow. Manilow’s version reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1976 after spending two weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart in December 1975. The song won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year and was nominated for Record of the Year in 1977 The title has been misunderstood to mean that the singer (or songwriter) “writes the songs,“ but the actual songwriter, The Beach Boys’ Bruce Johnston, has stated that the “I” in the song is “music”.. Manilow was initially reluctant to record the song, stating in his autobiography Sweet Life: “The problem with the song was that if you didn’t listen carefully to the lyric, you would think that... Read on...