123K views · 7.1K reactions | On a night just like tonight, Barry won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 1979 GRAMMYs for Copacabana. Good luck to all nominees and Congratulations on 65 years to the Recording Academy! #GRAMMYs #copacabana #fanilow #65years | Barry Manilow | Facebook

ON THIS DAY, January 23rd, 1996, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS released the single 1979. It was the second single from the band's third album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The video below is a live acoustic performance of the song at the Brixton Academy in London, England, on May 15th, 1996. "1979" became the band's highest-charting single, reaching number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock Tracks charts. The song was nominated for the Record of