NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- As his summer tour kicks off with stops in the New York City area in August, legendary singer-songwriter Barry Manilow revealed to 1010 WINS his favorite song to perform in his five-decade career.
“I guess it’s ‘Could It Be Magic,’” Manilow told 1010 WINS Newsline with Brigitte Quinn on Friday.
“Because it was on the first album. It’s based on a Chopin prelude. It’s kind of an inventive thing to do for a young guy like I was to put it on a first album,” Manilow said of the 1975 hit single. “And it still holds up to me. So that’s the one that jumps out at me.”
Manilow, 79, will perform at a number of arenas in August as part of the “Manilow: Hits 2022” tour, including the Prudential Center in Newark on Aug. 5 and the UBS Arena in Nassau County on Aug. 6. Tickets are available at BarryManilow.com.
During the tour, he’ll award music teachers in each city he stops at with $5,000 in cash and another $5,000 in “Manilow bucks” to purchase instruments for their school’s music program.
“They’re running out of instruments in every school all over the country,” the Grammy and Tony winner said. “It’s awful! So I do everything I can to see if we can make the public aware that this is a problem.”
“Music, as you know, will change a young person’s life,” he added.
Votes for teachers are being submitted on the Manilow Music Project website.
The Brooklyn-raised Manilow also told 1010 WINS that it’d be a “dream come true” for his off-Broadway show “Harmony,” which opened this year, to play a Broadway theater. “We’re just waiting for a theater to open up for us uptown,” he said.
Meanwhile, he said he's finishing a new album that's “filled with original songs and melodies.”
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