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Manilow's music making Australians edgy

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ROCKDALE, Australia, July 17 (UPI) -- An Australian town's efforts to drive away loitering car buffs at a park by playing Barry Manilow music has worked but neighbors say they're going crazy.

For the past four weeks on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights between 9 p.m. and midnight, a city loud speaker system has been continually playing such Manilow hits as "Copacabana," "Mandy," "Can't Smile Without You," mixed in with the Doris Day classic, "Que Sera, Sera," the Sydney Daily Telegraph reported.

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It's driven away the car buffs but now is fraying residents' nerves.

"I don't know how I will cope," resident Moya Dunn told the newspaper.

The Rockdale Council agreed to turned the volume down and Deputy Mayor Bill Saravinovski said he empathized.

"I'm not disputing what the residents are saying. I can't swallow some of the tracks like 'Mandy'," he told the Daily Telegraph. "I don't mind Barry Manilow but I'm more of an ABBA and Celine Dion fan.

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