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Can't Smile Without You (ver. 2) by David Martin - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
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"Can't Smile Without You" is a song written by Christoph Arnold, David Martin, and Geoff Morrow, best known in its rendition by Barry Manilow. "Can't Smile Without You" was the first single to be released from Manilow's album Even Now in 1978. The song was released as a single in 1978 where it reached the number one spot on the U.S. A&C, and the number three spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Previously, the song was recorded by The Carpenters on their album A Kind of Hush in 1976, and was featured as the B-side of their hit "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" the following year. Manilow's version had slightly different lyrics from the Carpteners, such as the Carpenters's line "I can't smile and I can't walk / I'm finding it hard even to talk," was changed in Manilow's version to "I can't smile and I can't sing / I'm finding it hard to do anything" On behalf of the songwriters,.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
David Martin (22 December 1915 - 1 July 1997), known as an Australian poet, was born Lajos or Ludwig Detsinyi, into a Jewish family in Hungary (then part of Austria-Hungary). He used as well the names Louis Adam and Louis Destiny. He also wrote novels and short stories, and plays. He was brought up in Germany, where he first became a communist at age 17. He then worked in the Netherlands, and emigrated to Palestine. He fought in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, writing about this in My Strange Friend (1991); and then worked for the BBC in London from 1938. After World War II he settled in Australia from 1950, making his mark with the satirical poem Rob the Robber (1954). In 1991 he was given the Patrick White Award for important though under-recognised writers. "Can't Smile Without You" is a song written by Christoph Arnold, David Martin, and Geoff Morrow, best known in its rendition by Barry Manilow. "Can't Smile Without You" was the first single to be released from Manilow's album Even Now in 1978. The song was released as a single in 1978 where it reached the number one spot on the U.S. A&C, and the number three spot on the U.S..
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