Brandy (Scott English song): Difference between revisions

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The suggestion that Scott English wrote "Brandy" (which reached number 12 in the [[UK Singles Charts]] but was a flop Stateside) about a favorite dog of his that he had sent away is apparently an [[urban legend]]. English has said (quoted in ''The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits'') that a reporter called him early one morning asking who "Brandy" was, and an irritated English made up the "dog" story to get the reporter off his back. When Manilow went to do the song as "Mandy", he originally recorded it as an uptempo bubblegum pop tune similar to English's original, but reportedly hated the way it turned out; thus, he decided to sing it as a ballad and was much more pleased with the results.

The song was parodied on [[Gift Grub]] under the title "[[Andy (song)|Andy]]" and, on ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' episode ''[[Check Out Drew's Old Flame]]'' where Mandy is replaced with Kyra, and on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode ''[[The Last Temptation of Homer]]'' ("Oh Margie, you came and you found me a turkey, on my vacation away from work-ee").

On a November 2006 episode of ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'' episode ''[[Happenstance]]'', investigator Nick Stokes had to sing the first half the chorus to finger print tech Mandy Webster before she'd give him the findings from an envelope he'd recovered.