Hi Everyone, This month’s MTV has just about every style of song I’ve ever recorded. It’s from May 5, 2000 in Wilkes-Barre, PA, a city that has always been filled with great and excited audiences. We called the tour “Manilow Live” and for the first time, I brought a full orchestra along. That was because I had just finished recording one of my favorite albums – “Manilow Sings Sinatra”. That album had some great arrangements and orchestrations and I felt that in order to sing songs from it proper

On this date in 1976, Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again hit #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. | Barry Manilow

On this day in 1976, 'I Write The Songs' reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. "I remember hearing the demo of this song and thinking, 'I can't record this song. Everyone will think I'm this incredible ego-maniac!' Well, Clive Davis, president of Arista Records, convinced me that it would be a number one record for me and that no one would think that I was an ego maniac if I recorded it. Besides, the song wasn't about me anyway. He was right about the hit record!" -Barry | Barry Manilow