In 1978, a woman named Lola Lamar patronizes the Copacabana lounge in Manhattan, which in that year was being operated as a discotheque.
There, outfitted in worn wardrobe that was new in the middle-to-late 1940s, when she had originally obtained it, she drinks rather heavily and remembers happier days thirty years ago, when she was far younger.
In 1948, wannabe singer Lola meets aspiring songwriter Tony Starr when both are contestants on a radio show.
Dick Clark approached Manilow and cowriters Bruce Sussman and Jack Feldman, persuading them to develop a musical film around the song.
Directed by Waris Hussein and written by James Lipton, the film features a handful of newly composed songs by Manilow.