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When Where Articles/Reviews October 6, 2017 The Morning Call "REVIEW: Barry Manilow's PPL Center concert: 'It's a Miracle'" by John J. Moser ALLENTOWN — It was no coincidence that Barry Manilow opened and closed his concert Friday at Allentown’s PPL Center with his 1975 hit “It’s a Miracle.” The depth and breadth of Manilow’s career does, indeed, seem like a miracle: He has produced 50 Top 40 songs, making him the most successful adult contemporary artist ever, and his hits-laden set list showed it. It may be even more of a miracle that Manilow, at 74, still is out performing those songs with the vigor he showed Friday. For nearly the entire 21-song, 85-minute set, he stood at the front of the stage, mic in hand. Dressed in a open-collared shirt and burgundy suit coat and backed by a full orchestra and three background singers, he played such favorites as his gold hit “Can’t Smile Without You,” which became an audience sing-along - or more, precisely, audience-led, since they sang louder than Manilow did. He even occasionally danced slightly with those background singers. His No. 1 gold hit “Looks Like We Made It” was surprisingly rich and stirring. And his early hit “Could It Be Magic” started as a piano-and-voice piece and morphed into a disco hit. Because it was such a hit-laden show, nearly all of the songs were from the 1970s, when Manilow’s sound was so popular that he literally couldn’t miss: His first 14 albums went gold or platinum. Only four of Friday’s songs were from the 1980s: “The Old Songs,” “Somewhere Down the Road,” his 1982 cover of the Four Seasons’ “Let’s Hang On,” and “I Made It Through the Rain.” But as if to show he can resonate with new music, Manilow in the middle of the concert sang the title track from his new album, “This is My Town,” which debuted at No. 1 on the pop chart in April. It was very show-tune - not in a bad way; Manilow does that type of bombast well. He followed with two other of the disc’s songs - its surprisingly thumping, muscular cover of the Drifters’ “On Broadway” and "New York City Rhythm.” [On] “I Am Your Child,” his voice was impassioned. The slower “Weekend in New England,” one of the few times he sat all night behind the piano, [was] nicely impassioned. He even sang part of the slow, tender “Somewhere Down the Road” a capella... “Every time we come to this area, we have a great time,” he said. Later, he recalled playing the Allentown Fair — which also delighted the crowd. In fact, some of the night’s best songs were lesser hits. “Somewhere in the Night” was better and more stirring than remembered, and Manilow sang it strongly — reaching for a big ending note. “Even Now,” a lesser hit from 1978, built and soared to a big end. The crowd was enrapt. “Wow! you make me feel like Justin Bieber!” he said. Manilow wound down the main set with what has become his signature song, his 1974 breakthrough No. 1 gold hit “Mandy.” It, too, was slow and impassioned, with a snippet of “Could It Be Magic.” Then he sang his 1978 gold hit “Copacabana (At the Copa)” before closing the night with a brief reprise of “It’s a Miracle” [and] the song with which Manilow closed the main set, [his] 1975 hit “I Write the Songs” — the song that became his second No. 1 and second gold record. With Manilow again behind the piano, and with a red-robed, 20-member choir backing him, it turned into another crowd sing-along - a joyful one. “Oh my music makes you dance / And gives you spirit to take a chance / And I wrote some rock 'n' roll so you can move,” Manilow sang. “Music fills your heart / Well, that's a real fine place to start.” It is, indeed. And after a 45-year recording career, Barry Manilow still is writing, and more importantly performing, the songs. October 6, 2017 Broadway World Barry Manilow to Bring 'A VERY BARRY CHRISTMAS' to Chicago, NY and LA Pop culture icon Barry Manilow announced today that for the first time ever he will be performing his special holiday concert in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. These spectacular shows are scheduled to take place in December at The Forum in Los Angeles, Allstate Arena in Chicago and NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island. Manilow's A VERY BARRY CHRISTMAS concerts will feature his hit songs and holiday favorites. His past holiday concerts have surprised audiences with a children's choir, Santa Claus, and even snow! Holiday concerts are scheduled for the following dates: Chicago Dec 5th - Chicago, IL - Allstate Arena New York Dec 7th - Uniondale, NY - NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles Dec 20th - Inglewood, CA - The Forum Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, October 13th at 10 AM (local time). Visit www.manilow.com/tickets for more details including pre-sale information. Having sold more than 85 million albums worldwide, Barry Manilow is one of the world's all-time bestselling recording artists. He's had an astonishing 50 Top 40 singles including 12 #1s and 27 Top 10 hits and is ranked as the #1 Adult Contemporary Artist of all time, according to Billboard and R&R magazines. October 5, 2017 The Morning Call "Barry Manilow, coming to Allentown's PPL Center, still writing the songs" by John J. Moser In 2015, singer Barry Manilow did a tour he called One Last Time!, a clear indication he was giving up touring. Yet here it is, late in 2017 and the singer of such iconic adult pop songs as “Mandy,” “Copacabana” and “Looks Like We Made It,” will play Allentown’s PPL Center Friday, Oct. 6 in a concert that is among two dozen he expects to do this year. “We’re doing like three shows a month, maybe four shows a month - every few weekends,” Manilow says in a phone call from his home in Palm Springs, Calif., where he lives with his manager-husband [Garry] Kief. “You know, I like performing, I don’t want to stop that. I just had to get off the road, meaning, the road where it keeps you on the road for weeks at a time, you don’t come home for weeks at a time. You go from city to city, hotel to hotel. I had to stop that. But I don’t mind performing. You know, I certainly like doing the job.” Doing that job has made Manilow, 74, a legend. Billboard magazine says he is the No. 1 Adult Contemporary artist of all time. In a recording career of nearly 45 years, he has had 50 Top 40 hits. Twenty-five of those songs hit No. 1, including “I Write the Songs,” and "Even Now." Manilow has sold more than 85 million albums worldwide, making him on of the best-selling solo artists of all time. Thirty-two of those discs sold gold or platinum. While he has slowed down on touring, his recording output has continued. His most recent disc, “This is My Town: Songs of New York,” was released in April and debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop chart. “I’m surprised that I’m still able to make an album, so let’s start right there,” Manilow says with a laugh. “Because, you know, I’ve been doing this for a long time and the people that I began with way back in the ’70s are either retired or dead. And I’m still making albums and running around the stage and it doesn’t seem like anything’s changed.... I always figure, ‘Well, this is the last album.’ And then it isn’t the last album. I got the next one, and then there’s the next one. I’m just one of the lucky guys whose career is still flourishing and I do still have an audience that seems to be interested in what I have to say.” Manilow knows his audience has gotten older, and the public’s buying patterns have changed. So while he once could count on anything he put out being a hit -- incredibly, his first 14 albums from 1973-85 went gold or platinum -- his more recent albums have been thematic releases. He says the idea to do thematic albums came after his hit “Read ’Em and Weep,” which was No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for seven weeks in 1984. “After I had that big run, 10 years of singles and albums that had singles on them, I thought, ‘You know, I don’t [know] how to top myself after this,’” he says. “And anyway, I think the radio started getting bored with me, and I started getting bored with me. I had to do something, so I told Clive [Davis, founder and president of Arista Records] I just have to do something different for the next album, and he said, ‘I think you’re right.’” The next album Manilow released was 1984’s “2:00 AM Paradise Cafe,” a collection of jazz songs that also went platinum. “I had a batch of great jazz musicians and it was a wonderful experience, and every album after that always had an idea to it,” he says. “It was either a big band tribute [1994’s ‘Singin’ with the Big Bands’] or another one was a Broadway album called ‘Showstoppers’ [in 1991] and then there was [2006’s] ‘The Greatest Songs of the Fifties’ and ‘[Greatest Songs of the] Sixties.’ Every album had an idea to it.” Manilow’s previous album, 2014’s “My Dream Duets,” used technology to have him singing with late musicians such as Louis Armstrong, John Denver, Whitney Houston and Sammy Davis Jr. The disc gave Manilow his 15th Grammy Award nomination - he has won just one, for Pop Male Vocal Performance for “Copacabana” in 1979 - and his highest-charting disc in nearly a decade. “It’s a technical marvel,” Manilow says. “We found a company that was able to take the orchestras off these classic records and just leave me with the vocals, and so I was able to rearrange the songs and make all these songs into duets. And you listen to that album, it sounds like I’m standing right next to, you know, Dusty Springfield. It’s an amazing sounding album.” The theme for the new disc brought him back to his native New York; he was born in Brooklyn. “It made sense for me to do a tribute to my hometown,” he says. “I always had the idea about making an album that paid tribute to New York.” At first, he says, he wanted “to make it a small jazz album, for a little combo. But when I looked at the standards that I had the choice of singing -- because I wanted to do half standards and half originals -- well, they really didn’t fit into a jazz album with a small combo. You can’t do ‘Downtown/Uptown’ with that kind of approach. So it turned into a bigger album than a little jazzy album.” Then, Manilow says, he started considering songs of different music genres. “Which is exactly what New York is,” he says. “New York is, as you know, a melting pot of different styles. You know, there’s Broadway and city stuff and jazz. Well, that’s what this album is. I do think it represents New York very well, because it’s all different styles.” That ability to sing a breadth of songs has not only helped Manilow extend his career, but gave him success on Broadway, television and in film. In 1977 he won a Tony award for his “Barry Manilow on Broadway” - his concert series that pre-dated Bruce Springsteen’s runaway hit this year by 40 years. That same year, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special: Comedy, Variety or Music for “The Barry Manilow Special,” then a second in 2006 for his “Barry Manilow: Music and Passion.” In 1978, his song "Ready to Take a Chance Again" from the Goldie Hawn film “Foul Play” was even nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. “It’s overwhelming,” he says. “I hear what you just said and it just doesn’t sound like you’re talking about me, because, you know, I keep my nose to the grindstone. I just don’t look up. You know, I don’t look up. I just keep going. I keep writing and having another project - the next one, and the next one. And I don’t look back. I just stay focused on what I’m doing right now. So when you mention all of that that was in my past, it sounds like you’re talking about somebody else. I just never think like that. Uh, it’s an amazing career. It’s been an amazing ride - I can’t believe it actually happened to me.” That wide-ranging career this year won Manilow an Icon Award at the 65th annual Broadcast Music Inc. Pop Awards, in recognition of his “prodigious musical legacy and an unparalleled career encompassing the worlds of Broadway, Film, TV and popular culture.” “It means a lot because one of the most important things of what I do is writing,” he says. “That’s really what I always wanted to be. My first love is arranging music - that’s what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wanted to be Nelson Riddle. I wanted to be David Rose. I wanted to be Don Costa. The guys behind the singers.” And that’s what Manilow did for many years, producing and arranging albums for artists including Bette Midler and Dionne Warwick before releasing his debut disc in 1973. “But my second love, of course, is writing. And when BMI gave me the Icon Award, that is a writer’s writer’s award, and it was a very, very important one for me,” he says. Manilow also was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. Manilow says in retrospect, it’s a miracle to him not that he’s still out performing concerts, but that he became a performer at all. “I never wanted to be a singer or a performer or the leader of a band,” Manilow says. “I mean, I never went after that. So not only is it fantastic that this actually happened, it’s a miracle because I never went after it." “You know, most singers, you ask them about it, they always wanted to stand on a stage and sing. Or they always wanted to be in the paper; they wanted to be a star. That wasn’t me. It never dawned on me that that would even be a career for me. I was always happy being in the background -- you know, writing jingles or arranging songs for other people. So this career of that -- you hear that expression ‘you chose your career’? Well, my career chose me,” he says with a laugh. DETAILS: Barry Manilow, When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6. Where: PPL Center, 701 Hamilton St., Allentown. How much: $19.75-$149.75. Info: www.PPLCenter.com, 610-347-TIXX October 4, 2017 The Morning Call "What singer Barry Manilow, coming Friday to PPL Center, remembers about playing Allentown Fair" by John J. Moser Barry Manilow, who plays at Allentown’s PPL Center on Friday, hasn’t played the Lehigh Valley in 17 years, and hasn’t played in Allentown in more than 23 years. But in a recent phone call to promote his upcoming show, the singer says he remembers his concerts at Allentown Fair in 1993, when he sold out the fair’s grandstand, and again in 1994. Manilow, 74, who with 50 Top 40 hits according to Billboard magazine is the No. 1 Adult Contemporary chart artist of all time, will hit the PPL Center stage at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, at $19.75-$149.75, remain available at www.PPLCenter.com, 610-347-TIXX or at the PPL Center Box Office at 701 Hamilton St. He’s promoting his latest album, “This is My Town: Songs of New York,” which, released April 21, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop chart. But he also will perform his greatest hits, such as "Copacabana" and "Mandy." Manilow last played the Lehigh Valley in May 2000 at Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena. But in the telephone call, Manilow says he remembers playing Allentown Fair. “Allentown has always been good to me,” he says. “Haven’t played it very much, but I did a couple of state fairs there, and that was a wild, wild ride. They were great. They were great fun. They set the stage up near the throw-up rides. That was always fun. You could hear people screaming and throwing up as I was singing the ballads. It was always fun,” he says with a laugh. Manilow also says he remembers fondly shows in Wilkes-Barre, though after a career of nearly 45 years, the timing eludes him. “Those shows I’ll never forget,” he says. “They were always wonderful. So I’m looking forward to it.” DETAILS: Barry Manilow. When: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6. Where: PPL Center, 701 Hamilton St., Allentown. How much: $19.75-$149.75. Info: www.PPLCenter.com, 610-347-TIXX October 3, 2017 NJ.com "'I'm one of the lucky guys': Barry Manilow" by Natalie Pompilio Barry Manilow says he doesn't have a favorite among the songs he's written, at least not a consistent one. But if pressed, at this moment, his choice would be "Could It Be Magic." he said in an interview with New Jersey Advance Media. "Because it's from the very first album, which I released in 1821," joked Manilow, 74, referring to his self-titled 1973 debut record. "It was based on a Chopin prelude. The prelude begins the record and then it goes into the song I wrote based on it and it lasted for eight minutes. Eight minutes.... When i listen to it, i think, 'That was a pretty brave thing to do and that was a great song.' But ask me next week and I might have a different answer." With 47 Billboard Top 40 singles to his credit, Manilow has many songs to choose from. When he performs at the Prudential Center Oct. 5., expect selections from his latest album, "This is My Town: Songs of New York," and many of his greatest hits. "We're doing all of them, all the way through, starting with 'It's a Miracle' and ending nearly two hours later with 'I Write the Songs.'" he said. "I'm one of the lucky guys who has a catalogue of songs that can fill up two hours on stage." Anyone who brings a new or gently used instrument to the Prudential Center box office will receive two free tickets to the show. The instruments will then be given to local public schools as part of the Manilow Music Project, the non-profit the singer started in 2008. Since then, the organization has collected thousands of instruments and donated them to hundreds of schools. Manilow often donates a piano to the schools as well. After more than four decades on the road, Manilow said he no longer tours. Instead, he performs, sometimes one weekend a month, sometimes twice. After his Garden State show, Manilow will perform in Allentown and then end this spate of East Coast appearances. Despite famously not writing one of his biggest hits - "I Write the Songs" - Manilow is credited with more than 400 other songs, including "Can't Smile Without You." In May, he was honored with a BMI Icon Award. "I was very honored," he said. "t was important to me because one of my favorite parts of my career is song writing and when BMI honors you, that means you've made it as songwriter, that you've written enough songs and they've been popular enough to actually have been noticed." His latest album, an ode to his hometown of New York City, five original compositions and includes a virtual duet with the late Mel Torme. Among the other songs is "NYC Medley," which has Manilow tackling everything from "New York, New York" to "Empire State of Mind." The album immediately landed in the Billboard Top 40 chart, the 26th Manilow album to hit that mark. The variety of styles on the new title harkens back to the days when Manilow called himself a "musical misfit." "The 'My Town' album is filled with different musical styles. One song is a bit of a Broadway type of a song and the next song is R&B and the next one is pop and I thought, 'It's like New York. New York is filled with different styles and different people.' I think that's a perfect way to pay tribute to the city." BARRY MANILOW: Prudential Center. 25 Lafayette St., Newark. Tickets: $19-300, available online at www.prucenter.com. Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m. October 2, 2017 NorthJersey.com "Barry Manilow writes the songs - and sings them, too" by Jim Beckerman Wampum, Bitcoin, credit cards -- all money by another name. And now Barry Manilow has come up with his own form of currency. Have any unused musical instruments -- new or in good condition -- gathering dust in the house? Bring them to Newark's Prudential Center on Thursday Oct. 5, and you can exchange them for two tickets to his show. "Just bring them to the arena, they'll have someone to collect them, and we give them two tickets," Manilow says. "[Sometimes] we get between 75 and 100 instruments a night, and it's great. And I feel great about doing it." The Manilow Music Project, now in its 10th year, is all about putting instruments into the hands of public school students who might not be able to get them otherwise. Manilow himself donates a piano to each city he visits. "We collect as many instruments as we can, and then we give them to the schools that are running out of them," he says. "Because they're running out of everything. Music and arts are always the first thing that goes. Certainly in the public schools... As a musician, when I heard that, it killed me." This admirable project is one of several legacy gestures that Manilow, 74, is making in a storied career that is now -- apparently -- on the verge of winding down. He's already announced that he won't be doing extended tours anymore. This Prudential appearance is a one-off. "No more touring for me," he says. "We are doing one-nighters, because I don't want to stop. We're doing I guess three shows a month... But I did want to get off the road. No more touring, no going from city to city, being away from home for weeks at a time." His new album is another summing-up gesture. Manilow, who came to fame in the 1970s with such monster hits as "Mandy," "Can't Smile Without You," "Copacabana (At the Copa)" and "I Write the Songs" — that one, ironically, not written by him — was born in Brooklyn. He studied at City College of New York and the New York College of Music, and came to prominence in the 1970s as the musical director for Bette Midler in venues like New York's Continental Baths. His new album is a tribute to the town that gave him his start. "This Is My Town: Songs of New York," released in April (Decca Records and Stiletto Entertainment), features a mix of originals and less-obvious covers like Leonard Bernstein's "Lonely Town" from the musical "On the Town." "I've always wanted to do a New York album," Manilow says. "I come from New York. I'm a New Yorker. It made perfect sense." Another legacy gesture was perhaps less intentional, though it ultimately turned out well. On April 5, Manilow officially came of the closet in an interview with People Magazine, garnering headlines nationwide and causing fans to tweet -- and shrug. "Every article was followed by a batch of comments, and every comment was positive," he says. "Not one negative. I expected that. I know these people. These people care about me. And they couldn't have been happier to find out that I was in a relationship for so long, and happy. That's all they care about." The few critical comments were mostly along the lines of, "Why did it take him so long"? And in fact, it might have taken him longer. His hand was forced, he says, by The National Enquirer, which broke news of his 2014 marriage to his longtime partner and manager, Garry Kief (they've been together 40 years), at Manilow's Palm Springs, Calif., estate. "If the Enquirer hadn't done it, I still wouldn't have done it," he says. "But it was too late, so of course we had to go with it." Not that he has any qualms, or embarrassment, about making the news public, he says. But privacy has always been extremely important to a guy who gets so little of it. "I don't like the public knowing what my dogs' names are," he says. "It's the one little piece of the pie I have. It's the only thing that's kept me sane for all these years of being in the public eye. … It's my private life, thank you very much, and you can't come in unless I invite you in. Wouldn't you feel the same way? Anybody would. So that’s me. I never came out [for that] reason. Now that it's out there, and everybody's happy for me, that’s great." Fans -- "Fanilows" they're sometimes called -- are really more interested in his songs, he says. "It's always 'Copa,' 'Can't Smile Without You' is number two, 'Mandy' and 'I Write the Songs' -- those are the biggies," he says. "But I'm one of those lucky guys who has a catalog of songs that can fill up nearly two hours on a stage, and most of these songs the audience is familiar with. That's an amazing thing to say." Familiar doesn't cover it. Often as not, Manilow's audience knows every word of his biggest hits. And they're not shy about singing along. "It was surprising the first time I heard that," he says. "I understand now, that’s part of the fun. How many people can say they’ve written or recorded songs that ten thousand people know? It's an amazing thing. I couldn't be prouder." Indeed, you may not know you know some of Manilow's songs. In addition to his career as a pop hitmaker, Manilow also wrote, or sang, many of TV's best-known ad jingles. "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there," is one of his. So is "Stuck on Band-Aid." And he gave voice to the wonders of McDonald's by singing "You Deserve a Break Today." Jingle writing, he says, was his pop music university. It taught him to think it terms of hooks. "I like writing melodies you can remember," he says. "When I got into the jingle world, that's what they wanted. But what I learned was how to do that within 15 seconds, 30 seconds... When I got into pop music, well, writing a hook, you still have to write a hook that is 15 seconds, or 20 seconds, in any pop song. They call it a hook because it hooks you. When you finish listening to it, you can sing it back. That's what the wanted when I was writing jingles, and frankly that's what they want on the radio with a pop song. And having done that for four years, when I got into pop music that was very valuable." WHO: Barry Manilow. WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Thursday Oct. 5. WHERE: Prudential Center, 25 Lafayette St., Newark. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. HOW MUCH: $27 and up. October 2, 2017 The Morning Call "Get two free tickets to Barry Manilow's show Friday at Allentown's PPL Center" by John J. Moser If you can't smile without Barry Manilow but don't have tickets to his concert Friday at Allentown's PPL Center, we're about to tell you how you can get a pair free. All you need is an old music instrument. Manilow, who Billboard magazine says is the No. 1 Adult Contemporary artist of all time with 50 Top 40 hits such as “Mandy,” "Copacabana" and “Can’t Smile Without You,” will play PPL Center at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6. Tickets, at $19.75 to $149.75, are available at www.PPLCenter.com, 610-347-TIXX or at the PPL Center Box Office at 701 Hamilton Street. But Manilow, through his Manilow Music Project, will give a pair of tickets to anyone who brings a new or gently-used band or orchestra instrument to the box office before the show. “If they can bring down instruments that they’re not using anymore – they’re just collecting dust in the attic or the basement – bring it down before the show, between now and then, and we give them two free tickets to the show,” Manilow said in a recent telephone interview from his home in Palm Springs, Fla., to promote the show. "Then we collect them, we fix them up, we take them to the school district, and they give them to the schools that are running out of instruments.” Dan Fremuth, director of public relations for PPL Center, said he confirmed with the tour that if someone brings an instrument as a donation, they indeed will get two tickets to the show. Manilow said he does a similar drive in every city in which he plays. He says the idea started in Palm Springs, where “a friend of mine came to me like 10 years ago and said did I have access to a sax, ‘cause she’s a saxophone player, and the school was running out of saxophones and she was really hoping that she could get one. I said, ‘The school is running out of saxophones?’ And when I looked it up, all the schools are running out of instruments because of budget problems. You know, the first thing they do is cut music and arts out of the schools and it’s awful. And so, as a musician, I said I got to do something. And so that’s why I formed the Manilow Music Project, and we’ve been doing this for a long time, collecting instruments or doing benefits with that in mind. And then in every city that we go to, we collect – sometimes we get a hundred instruments back. And I hope that they’ll come along with me and just give us as many instruments as we can collect.” Manilow’s concert is promoting his newest album, "This is My Town: Songs of New York," which, released April 21, hit No. 1 on the Pop Album chart. He also will perform his greatest hits, such as "Copacabana" and "Mandy." It is the first time the singer has performed in the Lehigh Valley in more than 17 years. He was last here in May 2000 at Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena. He played to a sold-out grandstand at the Allentown Fair in 1993, and played the fair again in 1994. Manilow, 74, has had 47 songs that hit the Top 40 on various charts, ranking him as the top Adult Contemporary chart artist of all time according to Billboard magazine. Twenty-five of those songs hit No. 1, including “I Write the Songs,” and "Looks Like We Made It."

When Where Articles/Reviews September 29, 2017 WFMZ-TV "William Allen Chorale practices to sing with Barry Manilow" by Jaccii Farris They're preparing for one of the most exciting moments in their young lives EVER. "I got an email from out of the blue from Barry Manilow's tour manager," said William Allen Chorale Director Brandon Remp. That's right, the Grammy winning, Vegas headlining, 47 Top 40 single making legend Barry Manilow. Anyway, Barry's people reached out to the William Allen Chorale. "And were like, we need a choir to sing with Barry when he is coming to Allentown and I said that's awesome," said Remp. Yeah it is. For the past few weeks, Remp has been getting the students ready for the Oct. 6 concert at the PPL Center. "I just think it's going to be amazing to be there and performing. I've been to concerts but I think that being on stage for one is going to be a totally different dynamic," said chorale member Anna Tjeltveit. "Everyone's excited about it my parents are thrilled about it you know," said chorale member Josie Latorres. Some of the students were a little unfamiliar with Barry, but say their families are sharing their love for the man who makes the whole world sing. "One of his records that they gave to me they want me to try to get it signed for them," said chorale member Joshua Roth. This is the second time Barry has asked William Allen to sing with him. The last time was at the 1994 Allentown Fair. "So would you say that you are now a '[fanilow]'?" asked reporter Jaccii Farris. "Um, I wouldn't necessarily say that I am a '[fanilow]', he has some good music that I can bump to," said chorale member Delacey Lora. The students say they really enjoy Manilow's music and will listen to it long after their performance. "I'm sure it's going to be an experience being in front of all those people, and working with the legend like Barry Manilow that the students will never forget," said Remp. September 28, 2017 Boston Globe "Manilow can’t smile without you, 'Fanilows'" by Lauren Daley Barry Manilow is “pretty sure” this happened: Bob Dylan walked up to him at a party, hugged him, and whispered in his ear: “Keep doing what you’re doing. We’re all inspired by you.” “Either he was stoned or I was stoned, but...” Manilow, 74, recalls with a laugh. Of course, maybe all that matters is Manilow believes it happened. “The only way I could keep going were the people who kept telling me not to listen” to the critics, he says. Manilow is refreshingly unscripted: You hear his sense of humor, his keen self-awareness, his penchant for self-deprecation. He’s also almost painfully aware of his critics (“I really wasn’t very good. The audiences were so kind to me, though,” he says of his early days) and grateful to his devoted tribe of “Fanilows” who helped turn a jingle writer from Brooklyn (“I am stuck on Band-Aid, ’cause a Band-Aid’s stuck on me” and “Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there”) into an international adult [contemporary] superstar, whose hits include “Mandy” and “Copacabana (At the Copa).” We caught up with the Emmy, Grammy, and Tony winner for a wide-ranging interview, as he readies to sing old favorites and new tracks off his latest record, “This Is My Town: Songs of New York” at TD Garden Tuesday. He expects this show in Boston to go over a lot better than his first one, 40-plus years ago at Paul’s Mall. Boston Globe (BG): Tell me about your new album. What sparked the idea for this love letter to New York? Barry Manilow (BM): I always had an idea to do a tribute to New York. I always knew it was going to be half standards and half originals. The hard part was choosing the standards. I went on Google just to see songs about New York, and there must’ve been 500 songs. BG: What are your first memories of music growing up? BM: I was raised by my grandparents and my mother — this was not a musical family, but they all knew I was musical, even when I was very young. They had no money, they were barely putting food on the table, and the best they could do was put an accordion in my hands, and [get me] an accordion teacher. I was good at it, I didn’t mind it, and the best thing is I learned to read music. The beginning of my knowledge of music was when my stepfather Willie Murphy came into my life. He brought a stack of records with him that may as well have been a stack of gold. Those records were the beginning of my musical adventure. Whatever I was feeling when I would play those records, I wanted to keep that feeling forever. I was only 13. But I knew it. BG: And you started out writing jingles. BM: [To work as] a performer and singer and a guy who makes records — it never dawned on me that that’s where I’d end up. I was happy doing everything in the background. I was happy playing for other singers; I was happy arranging and conducting for other people. I was doing real well writing jingles. They still play a few of them, even 40-something years later. I only got $500 for “State Farm is there.” [Laughs] Because they buy you out. Nobody expects it to last more than a month. BG: Then you started accompanying Bette Midler. BM: She was just one singer I was playing piano for and arranging for, but of course she was the best of all of them. It was so obvious she was brilliant. I went on the road with her for no money. For the first few years we were all broke, going from city to city in a little Volkswagen. And [then] it just exploded, the way everyone thought it would for her. In the meantime, I’d started to write songs of my own, with my collaborators, and because I had no money to hire a bona fide singer, I sang my own demos. And I wasn’t bad -- I wasn’t great, but I wasn’t bad. Those were the years, in the early ’70s, when singer-songwriters were really the thing -- James Taylor, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, all the record companies were looking for that. Bell Records offered me a record contract, which was crazy because I wasn’t a singer. I told Bette, “I think I got a record contract.” She said, “Doing what?” [Laughs] I said, “Singing.” She said, “You don’t sing!” So I made the first record, and you’ve got to go on the road and promote it. So I put a band together, and went on the road [in 1974]. I actually played in Boston, I played in a terrible place called Paul’s Mall. My God, they hated me at Paul’s Mall. That was the first gig ever, ever as a performer. I mean, yes, I agree, I was terrible. I called my manager and said, “I can’t do this. I can’t go anywhere else.” He said, “Just go one more place, in Philadelphia.” I said, “OK, I’ll go to Philadelphia.” And from Philadelphia on, everything turned better. Audiences liked me. But I’ll never forget Paul’s Mall. So I went on the road as a performer, and the records started to sell. Then we did “Mandy,” and my life exploded into a million pieces. BG: You must’ve been blown away by the success of that. BM: It was a confusing, terrifying, and exciting time. BG: You’ve said there was an era where you felt hated? BM: The critics were after me, oh my God. I really wasn’t very good. The audiences were so kind to me, though. When I was at the piano, I was fine, but when I got up and tried to be funny, I was terrible. But [fans] didn’t mind; they were saying, “Keep going, we like what you’re doing.” Critics couldn’t stand it. As soon as I had that number one record, oh my God, they tried to annihilate me. I’d pull covers over my head and go into self-pity. And then the band, the record company, my family, then all these strangers would tell me, “Keep going, there’s something happening.” The only way I could keep going were the people who kept telling me not to listen [to the critics]. BG: You got a lot of support from your fans when you came out about your marriage [to longtime manager Garry Kief in 2014]. BM: Man, did I. We’ve been together about 40 years, and I was a little nervous about how people would react, but gee, it couldn’t be more positive. The fans I have, they care for me. It’s deeper than I would’ve ever thought. They really care about me. When they read that I wasn’t alone with a dog all my life, that I had someone with me for 40 years, and we’re two guys, and we’re still together, and still happy, they couldn’t have been happier. BG: Do you have any other memories of Boston that are better than Paul’s Mall? BM: After [that], all those shows we did in every area of Boston were wonderful, wonderful. I played at the Wang Center, that was beautiful; we’ve played theaters, outdoor places, indoor places, I’ve played Boston so many years. And whenever I get to “Time in New England” [from the song “Weekend in New England”], forget about it. I have to repeat that line four times before I can move on. [Laughs] BARRY MANILOW: TD Garden, Boston, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets from $25, www.livenation.com September 15, 2017 Rome Sentinel RFA choir group to perform with Barry Manilow Rome Free Academy’s a cappella choir group, Fermata Nowhere, will perform three songs with singer Barry Manilow during his concert appearance Saturday at Turning Stone Resort Casino Event Center, the school district announced. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m., and students are expected to perform with Manilow at 9 p.m., the district announcement added. The students will join Manilow on stage for for the songs “Copacabana,” “I Write the Songs,” and “It’s a Miracle,” the district said. The choir group -- one of several choir groups at Rome Free Academy, is directed by Michelle E. Rushford, who said “what a wonderful experience this is for these students. We are so excited for this opportunity to sing with Barry Manilow for a second time.” Students in Fermata Nowhere also performed songs on stage with Manilow during his March 2016 concert appearance at Turning Stone. In addition to the songs the RFA students will perform, Manilow has an extensive catalog of pop songs in a career that has spanned more than 50 years. Manilow has recorded 47 singles that have reached the Billboard Top 40 charts, including 12 that hit number one. Manilow is reported to have gotten his “big break” in the business as a performer with Bette Midler in the early 1970s. September 13, 2017 Bucks County Courier Times "Looks like Barry Manilow made it back to Philadelphia" by Marty Franzen All kinds of music are offered to fans this week... Here are highlights ... Barry Manilow’s career has spanned five decades so far, with the singer-songwriter-pianist selling more than 80 million records worldwide. He has resorted to releasing theme albums over the last 10 years, covering individual decades and topics like favorite dream duets, Christmas, love songs and night songs. When Manilow plays the Wells Fargo Center, at 3601 S. Broad St., Philadelphia, Friday night, he will showcase his latest themed CD “This is My Town: Songs of New York.” Among the tunes concertgoers might hear are “New York City Rhythm/On Broadway,” “Lovin’ at Birdland,” “On the Roof,” “I Dig New York” and “The Brooklyn Bridge.” Casual fans shouldn’t worry about being left out, as Manilow will fill most of his set with hits like “Daybreak,” “Can’t Smile Without You,” “Let’s Hang On,” “Mandy” and “I Write the Songs.” You see, he has so many hits, he has to play as many as he can. For the record, Manilow has notched 47 top 40 singles — 27 of them top 10 and 12 of them No. 1 hits. He can’t play all of them, but he does put a lot of energy into his shows. For the doubters out there, consider that when Bob Dylan met Manilow, he hugged him and told him to keep doing what he was doing. That might explain Dylan’s recent Frank Sinatra-styled albums. Show time is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $19.75 to $249.75. Call 800-298-4200. September 13, 2017 Newsday "Barry Manilow’s Nassau Coliseum concert to feature Uniondale show choir" by Janelle Griffith They’ve covered Beyoncé, Bruno Mars and Justin Timberlake. And Wednesday, the Rhythm of the Knight Uniondale Show Choir readied itself for the “Copacabana,” rehearsing some of Barry Manilow’s biggest hits at their high school on the eve of his concert at NYCB Live’s Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, for which the group will serve as closing act. Thirty-five members of the nationally ranked show choir sang Manilow classics including “Copacabana,” “It’s A Miracle,” “Let Freedom Ring” and “I Write the Songs” — all of which they will perform Thursday alongside the music legend. The group will ditch its signature sparkly sequin outfits for red robes for the routines that were choreographed by a member of Manilow’s team. Included in their performance is the “Carlton” — a dance popularized by a 1990s television show a bit closer to their time: “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” Thursday night will mark the second time the students, ages 14 to 18, will share a stage with the 74-year-old musician. In May, show choir director Lynette Carr-Hicks was contacted by Manilow’s camp about partnering for a show that same month at the Coliseum, after his people watched videos of the group on YouTube. Manilow is gifting Uniondale High School a new Yamaha piano and 117 tickets to the Coliseum show for the families of the performers and faculty. “Barry isn’t their time, but when they heard ‘Copacabana’ they were so excited,” said Carr-Hicks, a Uniondale school district teacher and former Broadway performer. “They said, ‘Oh that’s him.’ I always try to introduce them to good music.” Uniondale High School senior Sebastian Irizarry said despite his age, he was already familiar with Manilow’s music, thanks to his grandmother, when he learned the choir had landed the first gig. “Sometimes she would play it around the house while we were cleaning on Saturdays,” said Irizarry, 16, a fourth-year show choir member. “So I grew up listening to him.” His favorite Manilow song is one Carr-Hicks said all of the students recognized. “I love ‘Copacabana’ so much,” Irizarry said. “It’s such an upbeat song, you’ll never forget the lyrics. It’s so catchy.” September 13, 2017 The Inquirer "Barry Manilow reveals the Philly nightclub he played with Bette Midler that inspired him to go solo" by A.D. Amorosi Don’t call what Barry Manilow is doing at the Wells Fargo Center a “tour.” The singer, songwriter, pianist and arranger gave up the road’s long slog in 2015 when he married his manager, Garry Kief, turned 72, and decided his 50-year career — writing and producing commercial jingles, playing piano for Bette Midler at New York’s Continental Baths, selling over 80 million records worldwide — should slow down. Yet, he’s dropped a new album, This Is My Town: Songs of New York that hit the Top 10 upon release, is readying another record, and continuing his instrument-giving Manilow Music Project, in which he trades musical instrument donations for free tickets to his show (drop off any instruments to the Wells Fargo Center box office through Friday, or call 800-298-4200 for more information). “Bring them down to the Wells Fargo,” Manilow says. “We’ll fix them up, and give them to a school that need them.” The Inquirer (TI): So you got married, took a break, but it didn’t wind up as much of a break. Did you get bored? Barry Manilow (BM): Yes and no. A new album was part of the plan, as were one-off shows — maybe a weekend or two — as I never want to stop performing. I just wanted to get off the road and hotels. I’ll never do that again. TI: Throughout the time that you were a touring artist, you never had a chance to sightsee. Now, that you’re chilled, have you gone anywhere? BM: No [laughs]. I just didn’t feel like leaving home. Getting those suitcases out, emotionally, kills me. And I never got to truly enjoy my home until now. I can live my life now. TI: Age is a number. From the Rolling Stones and the Who to Tony Bennett and Marilyn Maye: They maintain, carry on, create and have aesthetically rewarding careers. Is there a career you’ve watched grow up gracefully that acted as inspiration? BM: You’re right about age as I just can’t seem to connect with that number. Luckily, nothing has changed about me. Not my hair, my weight. I’m still skinny, the hair is full and I have all this music in me. Projects galore are set to follow. I feel like I’m 35, so I’m not getting old. Not yet. TI: Concerning the New York album, Did living in San Diego make you yearn for the NYC you remembered? BM: Well, that was my beginnings, and so exciting, realizing that I could have a career in music. When I got out of Brooklyn as a piano player, then going form gig to gig and recording studios in fast cabs for another company I had to jingles for — so thrilling. TI: What gave life to this new album then, because it is not the pop sound of our youth or yours? BM: When I slowed having pop hits, the albums that followed Read ‘Em and Weep were … well I couldn’t keep doing records that just had 10 love songs. I would bore myself with that. I had to find a concept that turned me on. 2 A.M. Paradise Café, Showstoppers, they all had these big ideas to them. Since I always wanted to pay tribute to my hometown, I ran the idea by Danny Bennett [Tony’s son, who runs the Verve label] and he loved it. TI: You wrote and/or co-wrote nearly all the songs on the new album. After the thousands already out there, how does one write an original song about NYC? BM: When I looked up New York songs on Google I had to stop at 10 pages, because I did want to make the new album half my songs and half others. And there are amazing, legendary songwriters who’ve tackled the subject. I just kept it personal. I loved Coney Island, because that was my coming up. I stuck to my experiences and came up with “On the Roof.” Sometimes, I work with a lyricist [Bruce Sussman], but the ideas are mine, so only two New York guys could’ve come up with “This is My Town.” TI: Because you are a quote-unquote pop legend, people forget how talented an arranger you are. You really sink your teeth in here, as the arrangements subtly merge bop, Broadway and orchestral music. What are you looking to do, as they don’t sound like anyone else? BM: It’s an amalgamation of all the styles I’ve loved. Big band, jazz, Tin Pan Alley pop — I think that I’ve put all of that into my arrangements. I can’t do rap and you won’t hear hip hop, because that isn’t me. You’ll always get big modulation, strings where they’ll surprise you, you’ll always get a grand finale, because that’s the Broadway stage in me. TI: “The Brooklyn Bridge” has you sampling Mel Torme’s voice, but using your arrangement on his version of the track. Sinatra did it before him. What’s your relationship with that tune, and Torme too, as you guys worked on Paradise Café together? BM: Right. Sinatra did it as a ballad and Torme bopped it up. I was trying to re-arrange it, but couldn’t hear it without Mel. I put my own stuff underneath, but it was very close to his — I couldn’t make it better. He was great, one of the few encouraging people when I came out of pop, into jazz. He was the guy who told me ‘It’s about time, Barry,’ when I mentioned doing jazz. TI: You were a behind-the-scenes musician at your start. When did you realize that you could be out-front? BM: Seriously, at the old Bijou Café in Philly. I was playing for Bette who was the greatest entertainer ever, and was just starting to sing out, first doing openers for Bette’s tours. I couldn’t figure what to do with my legs, I was terrible. But during the end of our run there, I did “Could It Be Magic” and a commercials medley and the audience was so welcoming. After that, I got confidence. I learned on the job. But Philly was crucial. TI: We have to discuss your Philly instrument-gifting program, the Manilow Music Project. BM: Whenever I play, I donate a piano, and then during my show, I’ll ask the audience if they have any old instruments gathering dust [and donate to those in need]. As a musician, I can’t stand seeing kids without instruments. Music: Barry Manilow. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St. Tickets: $19.75-249.75. Information: 800-298-4200, WellsFargoCenterPhilly.com September 12, 2017 Newsday "Barry Manilow encouraging instrument donations in exchange for Coliseum show tickets" by Frank Lovece Pop singer Barry Manilow is donating a new Yamaha piano to Westbury High School, launching a local music-instrument drive as part of his longtime Manilow Music Project to benefit music education. “One of my friends said that his daughter was really interested in learning how to play the sax, but her school didn’t have a sax,” Manilow, 74, says on how the project began, about a decade ago. “He said, ‘Yeah, the high school is running out of musical instruments.’ And I couldn’t believe it, of course, but after that I couldn’t stop thinking about it. So I looked it up and most of the public high schools around the country, because of budget cuts, are all running out of anything to do with music -- music stands, band outfits, sheet music -- because the first thing that goes is music and art. So I thought, ‘I’ve got to do something.’” Manilow, who plays the renovated Nassau Coliseum on Thursday, regularly donates a piano at places where he tours “and I ask the audience if they have any instruments that are just collecting dust in the attic or the basement to bring them down to the arena. Then we fix them up if they’re broken and give them to the school districts and they distribute them,” he says. Anyone who donates a new or gently used instrument will receive two free tickets to the concert. A Coliseum spokeswoman said people were encouraged to donate at the box office in advance of the show, daily from noon to 5 p.m. “No refunds will be granted if they’ve already purchased tickets, but they have the option of claiming two more free tickets,” she said. “Once [school budgets] start cutting sports equipment, you will hear the biggest scream coming from everybody,” notes the singer-songwriter, who donated a piano to the Uniondale school district when he played the Coliseum in March 2015. “But the arts -- I don’t know whether people realize how important it is to young people. I speak to principals and teachers and ... sometimes I’m told that [some students] would drop out if there wasn’t a music class. It’s really important -- it’s not just playtime. They turn into better human beings.” Manilow, a Grammy, Tony and Emmy Award-winner, recently released his 31st studio album, “This Is My Town: Songs of New York,” featuring both original and existing compositions. Raised in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee -- who actually retains a bit of borough accent in his speaking voice -- still considers himself a New Yorker. “Listen, when you come from New York, like I do, it’s always there,” he says. “I will always be a New Yorker, even though I [have] lived on the West Coast longer than I lived on the East Coast. I am a New Yorker: I talk fast, I walk fast, I think fast. I’m always fighting,” he adds metaphorically, “for a seat on the subway.” September 12, 2017 Billboard "Melissa Manchester & Barry Manilow Shine On 'For Me and My Gal' Duet: Video Premiere" by Alex Vitoulis Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and actress, Melissa Manchester released her 21st studio album, The Fellas, on Friday (Sept. 8) via Long Run Entertainment. Manchester sounds vibrant and in top form as she sings her way through the set that pays homage to male singers influential to her. The album is Manchester's "tribute to several of the great men singers who rocked my world and informed my soul," the artist tells Billboard, noting that she has wanted to record such a set since she released her female companion album Tribute back in 1989. Manchester, always very passionate about giving back and cultivating the musicians of tomorrow, has also long been very involved with teaching and mentoring the students at Citrus College, in Glendora, California, and enlisted current students, alums and a few faculty members to bring this album to fruition. "I was invited to be an honorary artist in residence by Ben Bollinger, the former head of the visual and performing arts division of Citrus College," Manchester says. "I'd enlisted the help of the Citrus Singers to back me at a concert I gave there several years ago. In 2013, I recorded my 20th album, You Gotta Love the Life, at their state-of-the-art studio, which also doubles as a teaching studio for their audio engineering students. The professor, Tim Jaquette, was my engineer. Among the luminaries who performed on that album with me were Dave Koz, Al Jarreau, Joe Sample, Dionne Warwick and Stevie Wonder. I was asked if I could think of a project that would incorporate the Citrus Blue Note Orchestra, made up of students, alumni and faculty. That is how The Fellas came to be." One of the songs on the album, "For Me and My Gal," finds Manchester singing with Barry Manilow. She says she "asked [her] dear friend if he would consider singing a duet on The Fellas. He came up with the scrumptious idea of paying tribute to Gene Kelly in a duet of 'For Me and My Gal.' We both loved the original version, sung by Kelly and Judy Garland, from the film of the same name. Peter Hume did a wonderful orchestration. "Singing with Barry is always a treat as he is a consummate musician," Manchester continues. "We've known each other for so long. We were there at the beginning of each other's long, enduring careers and we are still devoted friends." Manilow originally introduced Manchester to Bette Midler, which led to her becoming one of the founding members of Midler's backing singer/dancer group, the Harlettes, helping set the groundwork for her international stardom. Says Manilow to Billboard, "I jump at any chance to sing (or just be) with my dear friend Melissa. She has one of the greatest voices and singing styles in music today. And she's a wonderful songwriter. I loved being a part of creating and singing 'For Me and My Gal' with her." Billboard is proud to present the exclusive debut of the video for this special collaboration of "For Me and My Gal" by these two icons.

When Where Articles/Reviews August 14, 2017 New Jersey Stage Barry Manilow To Perform In Newark The pop music icon Barry Manilow will take the stage at Prudential Center in Newark, in celebration of his newest album, “This is My Town: Songs of New York” on October 5 at 7:30pm. Fans will be in for a treat when they hear Manilow perform his greatest hits like “Copacabana” and “Mandy” as well as songs from his new album on the Prudential Center stage. Manilow has sold over 85 million albums and has 50 Top 40 hits. Manilow's unparalleled career encompasses virtually every area of music, including performing, composing, arranging and producing. A Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, Manilow has triumphed in every medium of entertainment. With worldwide record sales exceeding 85 million, Barry Manilow is ranked as the top Adult Contemporary chart artist of all time. Prudential Center is located at 25 Lafayette Street in Newark, New Jersey. August 5, 2017 Orange County Register "Barry Manilow takes fans to emotional heights in Forum show" by George Paul Hordes of women over 40 howled like teenagers and were easily reduced to tears. Who could cause such a commotion? Yes, Barry Manilow was back in Southern California for a sold-out Forum gig. It was originally scheduled on Mother's Day, but postponed due to the veteran singer's sprained vocal cords. The average age of "Fanilows" in Inglewood actually skewed much older. No surprise there: Barry Manilow's successful run on the Billboard pop singles chart began in 1974 (adult contemporary radio hits continued throughout the '80s). Since then, he's put out more than a dozen concept albums that continue to resonate with longtime followers. During the 2000s, a "Greatest Songs" series of love songs and standards all went gold or platinum. Last spring, Manilow released "This is My Town: Songs of New York," a great musical love letter to his hometown of Brooklyn and surrounding areas. Manilow mixes impressive originals such as "Coney Island" and "Lovin' at Birdland" with covers made famous by The Crystals, Petula Clark, The Drifters, Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra, Jay-Z & Alicia Keys(!) and others. On Friday, an electronica mashup of Underworld's "Born Slippy" and past Manilow hits served as a festive introduction. Then the 95-minute show kicked off in standard fashion with the jubilant "Daybreak." Although the affable entertainer, now 74, stopped doing large scale tours in favor of sporadic live appearances, he said onstage that watching news channels such as CNN "where everybody is so angry" all the time made him realize "people need uplifting music again. So I'm back reporting for duty." Supported by a large band that included horn and string players, plus three backing singers, Manilow was in fine vocal form throughout and managed to hit all the high notes. He introduced the ballad "Somewhere in the Night," by lamenting how music on the radio today often lacks melody. In a recent interview, Manilow admitted "Can't Smile Without You" was one of his least favorites to do live, but he seemed to have fun with it here. Much of the arena was up and dancing for a vibrant "Bandstand Boogie" (the theme to Dick Clark's American Bandstand TV show from 1977-87). The sleek title track from "This is My Town" and "On Broadway/New York City Rhythm" were standouts and the only newish songs played. The latter featured an anecdote about Times Square and whimsical rotating piano/keyboard turns by Manilow and his band. Alone at the keyboard, Manilow did the quiet, emotionally resonant ballads "I Am Your Child" and "All The Time," where he recalled early days making the NYC piano bar rounds and "feeling like a misfit." Back at the black grand piano, the ultra-dramatic "Even Now" and its sustained vocal note whipped the crowd into a frenzy. A snappy "duet" with Judy Garland seen on the screens for "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" (heard on 2014's Grammy-nominated "My Dream Duets") worked well. What followed was the usual sturdy hit parade, including a romantic "Weekend in New England" (prompting loud female squeals), an upbeat take on The Four Seasons' "Let's Hang On" (on which Manilow palled around with his singers) and "Somewhere Down the Road" (capped by a moving a cappella bit). Manilow introduced "Could it Be Magic" by explaining how it was inspired by Chopin and his thoughts on Donna Summer's dance hit version. Toward the set's end, Manilow belted out his dramatic showstoppers "I Made it Through the Rain," "Mandy" (with the now standard 1975 Midnight Special TV clip accompaniment) and "I Write the Songs" (driven by swelling orchestration and assistance from the Los Alamitos Show Choir) with ease. "Copacabana (At the Copa)" brought everyone to their feet again for the party time finale. Barry Manilow. When: Friday, Aug. 4. Where: The Forum, Inglewood. August 1, 2017 WJBD Radio Barry Manilow performing at New York City benefit for Italian-American organization this fall Barry Manilow has signed on to perform at the Columbus Citizens Foundation's 73rd annual gala, scheduled for October 7 at the New York Hilton in New York City. The fundraising event will honor Barnes & Noble founder and chairman Leonard Riggio, while benefiting the foundation's Italian-American Student Scholarship Fund. The gala is traditionally held in advance of New York's Columbus Day Parade, which this year will feature the theme of "A Celebration of Italian-American Authors." Riggio, who will serve as the parade's Grand Marshal this year, chose the theme, which also will be incorporated into the gala. "It is an honor to have renowned performer Barry Manilow as this year's Gala entertainment,” says Columbus Citizens Foundation president Angelo Vivolo. "The Gala holds high significance in the celebration leading up to the Columbus Day Parade, and to have legendary singer Barry Manilow perform shows the importance of the Foundation and its goals." The Foundation's scholarship fund helps support outstanding students of Italian descent that are seeking a quality education and are in need of financial assistance. Tickets to the gala can be purchased by emailing gala@columbuscitizens.org.

When Where Articles/Reviews July 31, 2017 PR Newswire Grammy, Emmy & Tony-Award Winner Barry Manilow to Perform at Columbus Citizens Foundation 2017 Gala: Manilow to Honor Barnes & Noble Founder Leonard Riggio to Benefit Italian-American Student Scholarship Fund Pop music legend Barry Manilow will perform at the Columbus Citizens Foundation 73rd Annual Gala on Saturday, October 7 at the New York Hilton. The Gala will honor Leonard Riggio, the Founder and Chairman of Barnes & Noble, and will benefit the Foundation's Italian-American Student Scholarship Fund. The theme of this year's Columbus Day Celebration and parade is "A Celebration of Italian-American Authors." Mr. Riggio, the parade Grand Marshal, created the theme to recognize the achievements of Italian-American writers. The black-tie Gala will incorporate this theme and feature Mr. Manilow as the guest performer. All proceeds from the Gala will be used to support the Foundation's mission of providing quality education to students of Italian descent who have academic ability but need financial assistance. Having sold more than 85 million albums worldwide, Barry Manilow is one of the world's all-time bestselling recording artists. He's had an astonishing 50 Top 40 singles including 12 #1s and 27 Top 10 hits and is ranked as the #1 Adult Contemporary Artist of all-time, according to Billboard and R&R magazines. He has been nominated for a Grammy Award in every decade since the 1970s and, in addition to winning the Best Pop Male Vocal Performance Grammy in 1979 (for "Copacabana"), is an Emmy, Tony and American Music Award winner three years in a row. "It is an honor to have renowned performer Barry Manilow as this year's Gala entertainment," said Foundation President Angelo Vivolo. "The Gala holds high significance in the celebration leading up to the Columbus Day Parade, and to have legendary singer Barry Manilow perform shows the importance of the Foundation and its goals." Mr. Manilow will be a part of a program that pays tribute to Grand Marshal Riggio, Italian-American authors, and this year's honorees, Tom Iovino, CEO of OHL America, and Dr. Laura Forese, Executive Vice President and COO of New York-Presbyterian. Tickets are still available for this exceptional evening. Please email gala@columbuscitizens.org for further details. ABOUT THE COLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION The Columbus Citizens Foundation is a non-profit organization in New York City committed to fostering an appreciation of Italian-American heritage and achievement. The Foundation, through a broad range of philanthropic and cultural activities, provides opportunities for advancement to deserving Italian-American students through various scholarship and grant programs. The Foundation organizes New York City's annual Columbus Celebration and Columbus Day Parade, which has celebrated Italian-American heritage on New York's Fifth Avenue since 1929. For more information, contact jwilson@columbuscitizens.org July 28, 2017 Starts at 60 The Atlanta concert was a hit with fans Two years ago, Barry Manilow’s ‘One Last Time’ concert series was thought to be the end of the musician’s touring career but it seems absence has made the heart grow fonder. The 74-year-old singer-songwriter was in top condition despite having to cancel two US concerts earlier this year due to “sprained vocal chords.” Fans were gushing about Manilow’s prowess with songs old and new as he sang the hits from his latest album, This is My Town: Songs of New York. Manilow’s July 27 concert in Atlanta was nearly sold out; an impressive feat for a musical sensation after 40 years in the business. [For] any youngsters in the audience, Manilow joked that he “was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s.” While songs from his new album went over well with the audience, they couldn’t get enough of the classics, including "Weekend in New England" and "Somewhere Down the Road." Manilow’s tour of the US will continue, with the musical sensation heading to Chicago this weekend. July 28, 2017 Atlanta Journal Constitution "Concert review: Barry Manilow returns to Atlanta with loose, fun show" by Melissa Ruggieri There’s a snarky line from Judd Nelson’s character in “The Breakfast Club” directed at a school official: “Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?” It’s meant to be an insult, of course. Another jab at the eternal un-hipness of Manilow because...why, exactly? Oh, right. Because at the height of his popularity in the ‘70s and ‘80s, his style of soft rock was a snicker-inducing contrast to the punk, prog rock and flutterings of New Wave music of the era. Looks as if four-plus decades later, someone is still having the last laugh. Manilow’s music has endured because – as he pointed out at his nearly sold-out Fox Theatre show on Thursday – it contains an essential element absent in much of current music: melody. It also still has the ability to provoke zigzagging emotions – the cheery cheesiness of “Can’t Smile Without You,” the throbbing excitement of “New York City Rhythm,” the deep melancholy of “Even Now” – and Manilow knows it. Two years ago, the 74-year-old musician embarked on his “One Last Time!” tour, ostensibly his final bow on the road. But people’s feelings change – which is maybe why you shouldn’t put the word “last” in the anything – and Manilow had reasons to return to the stage for sporadic dates. In April he released a new album, a love letter to his Brooklyn roots christened “This is My Town: Songs of New York.” He also publicly confirmed his longtime relationship (and marriage) to Garry Kief. And, as he noted at the start of Thursday’s two-hour hit parade, he thought people might want a break from all of the “yelling and hollering” about our divided country. Indeed, Manilow seemed looser and happier, even moving more fluidly across the stage during the perky “Bandstand Boogie” and casually slipping a hand in his pants pocket while singing “Looks Like We Made It.” He clowned with his expert 10-piece band and three backup singers during a Latin-styled jam on “New York City Rhythm,” spoke passionately about his Manilow Music Project (“Music will change a young person’s life,” he said, a point that cannot be emphasized enough) and humble-bragged through deserved ovations after hitting show-stopping notes at the close of “Even Now” and “I Made it Through the Rain.” Manilow is a practiced showman, and for those who have seen him before, there are plenty of well-worn, self-deprecating staples. “I was the Justin Bieber of the ‘70s – ask your mother,” he quipped, again (but yes, it’s still amusing). There was the expected joke when the cover of his first album was shown on a video screen about it being released “in 1821.” And fans still seem to relish the clip of a very, very young Clive Davis introducing Manilow on “The Midnight Special,” his shaggy hair falling over his eyes as he croons “Mandy,” which leads to current Manilow sneaking back onstage to pick up behind the piano for the second verse. But the presence of fresh material allowed him to make a few tweaks to the show. The new album’s title track, “This is My Town,” bursts with the kind of simple, yet heartfelt, lyrics that make the song well-suited for a NYC tourism campaign. He also, as he does on record, meshed the Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil classic “On Broadway” with “New York City Rhythm,” for a fulfilling valentine to his hometown. Fanilows accepted these new additions graciously, but saved their deepest swooning for the vivid songcraft of “Weekend in New England” and a tender “Somewhere Down the Road” (one of the few times during the show that Manilow’s voice cracked). Then, of course, the green glow sticks that the audience waved sporadically throughout the show erupted in full illumination for “I Write the Songs,” which featured the Gwinnett Young Singers adding a layer of lushness, and the giddy, goofy fun of “Copacabana.” So, was this Manilow’s true victory lap? If so, he went out proving once again that it’s not only hip to be square, but it makes for quite a respectable career. July 26, 2017 Broadway World A Fanilow Gets a Surprise Proposal with the Help of Barry Manilow! Music legend Barry Manilow stopped his DC concert last night at the MGM National Harbor to help make a very special memory for the newly engaged Bob and Jennifer. Check out the surprise proposal below! Having sold more than 85 million albums worldwide, Barry Manilow is one of the world's all-time bestselling recording artists. He's had an astonishing 50 Top 40 singles including 12 #1s and 27 Top 10 hits and is ranked at the #1 Adult Contemporary Artist of all-time, according to Billboard and R&R magazines. He has been nominated for a Grammy Award in every decade since the 1970s and, in addition to winning the Best Pop Male Vocal Performance Grammy in 1979 (for "Copacabana"), is an Emmy, Tony and American Music Award winner three years in a row. Barry Manilow was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and has his own Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1978, five of his albums were on the best-seller charts simultaneously. He most recently appeared on Broadway in 2013's MANILOW ON BROADWAY. He previously appeared in BARRY MANILOW AT THE GERSHWIN in 1989. July 24, 2017 The Morning Call "Singer Barry Manilow to perform at Allentown's PPL Center" by John J. Moser Grammy, Tony and Emmy Award-winning pop singer Barry Manilow will perform at Allentown’s PPL Center — the first time the singer has performed in the Lehigh Valley in more than 17 years, it was announced Monday. Manilow will perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6. The singer is promoting his newest album, "This is My Town: Songs of New York," which, released April 21, hit No. 1 on the Pop Album chart. He also will perform his greatest hits, such as "Copacabana" and "Mandy." Tickets, prices of which have not been announced, will go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. July 28 at www.PPLCenter.com, 610-347-TIXX or at the PPL Center Box Office at 701 Hamilton Street. Tickets and general information are also available at www.barrymanilow.com. Manilow last performed in the Lehigh Valley in May 2000 at Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena. He played to a sold-out grandstand at the Allentown Fair in 1993, and played the fair again in 1994. In a recording career spanning 44 years, Manilow has released 31 studio albums, six live albums, 17 compilations and four soundtracks. Thirty-two of those discs sold gold (more than 500,000) or platinum (more than 1 million), including his first 14. From 1975-78, he had three straight albums – “Tryin' to Get the Feeling,” “This One’s for You” and “Even Now” – all sold triple-platinum. In all, Manilow has sold more than 85 million albums worldwide, putting him in the Top 62 best-selling solo artists of all time. Twenty-six of those albums have charted in the Top 40, with 15 hitting the Top 10. His [1977] album “Barry Manilow Live” and 2006’s “The Greatest Songs of the Fifties” both hit No. 1. Manilow, 74, has had 47 songs that hit the Top 40 on various charts, ranking him as the top Adult Contemporary chart artist of all time according to Billboard magazine. Twenty-five of those songs hit No. 1, including “Mandy,” “I Write the Songs,” and "Looks Like We Made It." Five of his singles sold gold, with the last being "Copacabana (At the Copa)” in 1977. Manilow has been nominated for 15 Grammy Awards, with nods in every decade since the 1970s, and in 1979 won for Best Pop Male Vocal Performance for “Copacabana.” His most recent nomination was in 2016 for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for “My Dream Duets.” In 1977 he won an Emmy for Outstanding Special – Comedy, Variety or Music for “The Barry Manilow Special,” and a Special Tony Award in 1977 for “Barry Manilow on Broadway.” From 1978-80, Manilow won three straight American Music Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist. He was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2006, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for “Barry Manilow: Music And Passion.” Manilow's career encompasses virtually every area of music, including performing, composing and arranging and producing albums for other artists, including Bette Midler and Dionne Warwick. Manilow also has written songs for musicals, films and commercials, including famous jingles for State Farm Insurance ("Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there") or Band-Aid ("I am stuck on Band-Aid, 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me!") and the"You Deserve a Break Today" campaign for McDonald’s. Manilow won two Clio Awards in 1976 for his work for Tab and Band-Aid. July 24, 2017 WFMZ-TV 69 News Barry Manilow to play Allentown's PPL Center: He's touring in support of his newest album ALLENTOWN, Pa. - The PPL Center will host pop star Barry Manilow 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6. Manilow is touring in support of his newest album, "This Is My Town: Songs of New York." Tickets will go on sale to the general public 10 a.m. Friday at the PPL Center box office, online at the PPL Center website or by phone at 610-347-TIXX. Tickets and information are also available at the Barry Manilow website. Manilow is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and has more than 50 Top 40 songs. July 24, 2017 Philadelphia Patch "Win Tickets To See Barry Manilow In Philly: Find out how to win tickets to see the pop artist here" by Max Bennett Barry Manilow is heading to Philadelphia in September and you can win two tickets to see the pop artist. Manilow will be performing at the Wells Fargo Center Sept. 15 and NBC10 and LiveNation are giving away two free tickets to the show. All you need to do is enter your full name, email, phone number, zip code, and age on the form provided by NBC10. Winners will be announced after Aug. 10 on NBCPhiladelphia.com. You can enter to win now through Aug. 2 and entrants must be at least 18 years old. Enter to win online here. If you don't end up winning, you can still purchase tickets to see Manilow here. Tickets range from $19,75 to $249.75. July 21, 2017 Fairfax County Times "A grand concert for Barry Manilow" by Keith Loria Everyone has a favorite Barry Manilow song. For some, it’s the love ballad, “Mandy.” Others enjoy the up tempo of “Copacabana” or the fun chorus of “Can’t Smile Without You.” With more than 50 hits to his credit, including 12 that reached No. 1, the pop singer is truly one of the legends of our time. Not that it was the career he expected. Manilow was born in Brooklyn and began playing the accordion as a child, which is how he learned to read music. At 13, he switched to piano and was introduced to a wide array of music by his new stepfather, Willie Murphy. “He brought with him a stack of albums that may have well been a stack of gold,” Manilow said. “He introduced me to great Broadway albums and great classical albums, Frank Sinatra, Nelson Riddle – and for a 13-year-old kid to hear that for the first time, it was a life-changing moment for me.” Manilow attended Julliard and in the ‘60s, quickly made a mark for himself in music, writing everything from Off-Broadway musicals to Madison Avenue jingles, including lending a voice on campaigns for Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper and McDonald’s. “I wound up working with a lot of singers in New York when I began. I was a piano player, an accompanist, an arranger, and a conductor,” Manilow said. “That’s what I was going to do with my life. I had never, never thought about singing.” It was meeting Bette Midler in 1971 that would change his course in life and help both of their careers rise to the stratospheric level of where they are today. Manilow was the Divine Miss M’s pianist, conductor and arranger and co-produced her first two albums. It was from her that he said he learned to perform and do a show. He released a self-titled album in 1973, and a year later its follow-up, “Barry Manilow II,” contained the hit single “Mandy,” which would set in motion a pop career that he never envisioned. “I never wanted to be a singer or performer; all I cared about was being a musician,” he said. “When I wound up with a No. 1 record, it was crazy. I exploded into a million different pieces and as thrilling as it was, it was terrifying also and I wasn’t ready for it.” While “Copacabana” is his most popular song, it’s a tune that was never expected to gain any traction. “Clive [Davis] hated the song and didn’t want to put it out. It was a novelty song and we didn’t think it could possibly be a single because ‘Barry Manilow doesn’t have dance records’ and Clive was pushing the ballads,” Manilow said. “Out of nowhere, ‘Copa’ exploded off the album without any help from the record company and it turned out to be the biggest record of my career.” Over a career that’s spanned more than 50 years, Manilow has sold more than 80 million records and that number continues to grow. His latest release, “This Is My Town: Songs of New York” climbed to No. 1 upon its release, showing his musical power is as strong as it’s ever been. The album contains half new songs, half standards, but all with the theme surrounding the singer’s birthplace, evoking the spirit and energy of New York City. “I’ve had that idea for a long time, as I’ve always wanted to do a tribute to my hometown,” he said. “I looked titles up on the internet and I was very surprised at how many really good New York songs there were and I tried them all. It took me months, arranging the ones that felt good, and the best ones wound up on the album.” One of the songs was a medley of tunes that includes “New York State of Mind,” “New York, New York,” “The Sidewalks of New York,” “Native New Yorker” and of course the “Theme from New York, New York.” Last year, Manilow completed his “One Last Time” tour, which the 74-year-old said would be his final full-length concert tour. But he did promise that it didn’t mean the end of performing live – just that it would be a more pick-and-choose sort of thing. On July 24 and 25, the singer is keeping to his word, and will play two shows at the Theater at MGM Nation Harbor. “I’ve realized what the audiences want today,” Manilow said. “I’m doing as many of the hits as I can possibly squeeze into the show. I’m a lucky guy, who has a catalogue that can fill up an evening of music and most of them are familiar songs.” That means to expect songs like “Weekend in New England,” “It’s a Miracle” and “I Write the Songs.” “The biggest reward is being able to see the audience. If you saw what I saw, you would not stop performing, either,” he said. “These people are so happy and having such a great time singing these songs and listening to me do my cornball jokes and playing my music, that they do forget the craziness going on out there in the world. That’s the part that keeps me coming back.” Barry Manilow, Theater at MGM National Harbor. 7:30 p.m., July 24 and July 25. Tickets start at $45. July 19, 2017 The Washington Blade "Two-night-stand with Barry Manilow" by Keith Loria In 2015, news that Barry Manilow was married to Garry Kief, his manager and partner of now 40 years, broke in several publications, and any fears the singer had about what it would mean to his career and how his fans would react were quickly put to rest. With performances scheduled at the Theater at MGM National Harbor, July 24-25, Manilow took some time out of his busy schedule to talk about his shows, his storied career and the headlines asserting that he was gay. Washington Blade (WB): What were the emotions you felt once you decided to come out? Was there a sense of relief once you saw how your fans reacted? Barry Manilow (BM): Over the years, they have told me and showed me how much they care about me, not just the music. I’ve felt that from the very beginning. I have been in a loving relationship for 40 years and I would have been very surprised if they didn’t cheer and weren’t happy for me, and of course they did. They reacted just as I had hoped they would. I never saw one negative response. Everyone was very happy for me. WB: You and Garry have been together for almost four decades now. At a time when many couples don’t last, especially those in the public eye, what’s the secret to your long-lasting relationship? BM: Respect and privacy. We’ve been together going on 40 years and it’s a great relationship, just like any marriage. I grew up around people who were not really in love, with lots of arguing and screaming and I never really saw people respect and love people. Surprisingly enough, this worked out. Garry manages me and I do my work, he does his work, and we’re in great shape. We’ve both handled ourselves as gentlemen and we’re very proud of each other. WB: Last year you announced your “One Last Time” tour, retiring from touring but promising not to give up on performing. You’re sticking to your word by playing gigs here and there, including your shows next week at National Harbor. BM: I always said I would do one-nighters. I have no plans to retire. I’m doing weekends now and then. I had to get off the road. It keeps me away from home for weeks and sometimes months at a time and I’ll never do that again. Shows like these, I’m totally fine with doing. The band and I may need to do an extra-long sound check, but we’ve worked together for so long and know all the songs so well, it’s no problem. WB: What can you preview about what fans can expect from the performance? BM: For many years, I was able to do album cuts and special material and little by little, as the years went by, I could tell the audience wants the songs they grew up with, or that their parents played for them and whenever I tried to do anything else, I could feel that they weren’t as happy as when I did the big hits. I’m doing as many of the hits as I can possibly squeeze into the show. WB: What was the genesis behind your latest release, “This Is My Town: Songs of New York,” and as a New Yorker yourself, how important an album was this for you? BM: I like to make albums that have ideas to them. The days of me doing 10 love songs that have nothing to do with one another, I stopped doing that years ago. I did a Big Band album, I did a show tunes album, I did a decades series and I always wanted to do a tribute to my home town of New York. There were so many great songs that I decided to do a medley of a handful of them because I loved them all but didn’t have enough space for everything. WB: What is your songwriting process like? What inspires you to write? BM: If I started to chase the trend machine, it would drive me nuts. I do what feels good. I write a melody and then send it to my brilliant lyricists and then we talk it through. Or, we do it together. I’m one of these guys who work on demand. I work when I have a project. I’ve tried the other way — writing a song for no reason at all, and I love them all, but they wind up in my trunk and I never use them because they don’t fit on the next album. I stopped doing that. WB: Your stepfather, Willie Murphy, had a big influence on your music career. How did he help shape your musical tastes? BM: He brought with him a stack of albums that may have well been a stack of gold, because I didn’t know much music. I was raised by my grandparents and my mother, and my mother was into the pop music of the day on the radio, which didn’t really turn me on, and my grandparents were into the old Russian folk songs. When Willie Murphy came into my life with that stack of albums, there was music — great Broadway albums and great classical albums, Frank Sinatra, Nelson Riddle — and for a 13-year-old kid to hear that for the first time, it was a life-changing moment for me. I didn’t know music like that existed. WB: Are there still musical goals out there that you want to experiment with and try? BM: Always. The well hasn’t run dry yet. I always have the next idea. I have three ideas in the pipeline now. That’s how I keep young and energetic. You will never find me sitting in front of the TV set. It’s my suggestion to all those people who are getting on -- don’t just sit and watch TV, figure out something to do and do it. WB: What is it that keeps you coming back to the stage time and time again? BM: Garry’s told me, “You can’t cure cancer but you can make them forget about it for 90 minutes.” That’s what I’m seeing out there. These people are so happy and having such a great time singing these songs and listening to me do my cornball jokes and playing my music, that they do forget the craziness going on out there in the world. That’s the part that keeps me coming back. Barry Manilow. The Theater at MGM National Harbor. 101 MGM National Avenue. Oxon Hill, Maryland. July 24-25. 7:30 p.m. $76-309. mgm.theaternationalharbor.com July 19, 2017 CBS Philly - KYW Newsradio Barry Manilow at the Wells Fargo Center Live Nation Presents Manilow Live in Philadelphia! Don’t miss Barry Manilow performing songs from his latest album “This is My Town,” live at the Wells Fargo Center on Friday, September 15th! For tickets and more info visit: ComcastTIX.com Up to five KYW Insiders will win a pair of tickets to the show! CLICK HERE TO ENTER July 7, 2017 Philadelphia Inquirer "Barry Manilow announces fall date at Wells Fargo Center" by Nick Vadala He writes the songs that make the whole world sing, and this fall, Barry Manilow will bring those songs to Philly. Manilow, 74, is scheduled to play the Wells Fargo Center on Sept. 15 in support of his latest album This is My Town: Songs of New York. According to a release, Manilow will play hits including “Copacabana” and “Mandy.” Released in April, This is my Town features original tracks mixed with covers of songs celebrating New York City, Manilow’s hometown. The album also features [songs] from New York-oriented musicians including Billy Joel, Leonard Bernstein, and Alicia Keys. Tickets for the Wells Fargo Center date go on sale to the general public starting July 14 at 10 a.m. via the Wells Fargo Center website and box office, as well as Manilow’s official website. According to the Wells Fargo Center site, tickets will run between $19.75 and $249.75.

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