"Barry Manilow is in a mellow mood," or so begins this Billboard.com article detailing the "Copacabana" crooner's upcoming The Greatest Songs Of The Seventies, due September 18. For Manilow—who apparently has moods other than mellow—this is his third volume of decade-driven cover songs after the first two cleared more than 1.7 million copies (!) combined. Along with eight acoustic versions of his own singles, Manilow tackles "contemplative fare" like Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," The Carpenters' "(They Long To Be) Close To You," and Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were." The article then matter-of-factly adds: