Name: BarryNet Message Board Date/Time: 6/2/2020 1:55 AM Subject: The Way We Were Song for the Day - June 2, 2020: Barry Manilow's version of "THE WAY WE WERE" from his 2007 album THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE SEVENTIES! "The Way We Were" was written by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Marvin Hamlisch and was a #1 hit for Barbra Streisand on Billboard's Hot 100 in February 1974. Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (1944 - 2012) was born on June 2nd. Marvin Hamlisch with Liza Minnelli and Barry (1987)