WEBVTT 00:00:01.189 --> 00:00:03.750 Nick and Sue. This edition of the Chatterbox 00:00:03.750 --> 00:00:06.150 Redux podcast is brought to you in association 00:00:06.150 --> 00:00:09.210 with the Old Glory iconic music and sports superstore. 00:00:09.490 --> 00:00:16.530 More from them in a bit. Chatterbox. When the 00:00:16.530 --> 00:00:31.000 stars talk they talk to Nick and Sue. Welcome 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:33.520 back to the Chatterbox Redux Podcast with Sue 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:36.039 and Nick and today our special guest is Barry 00:00:36.039 --> 00:01:13.230 Manilow. This is Nick and Sue with Chatterbox 00:01:13.230 --> 00:01:16.870 giving you all you need to know about musical 00:01:16.870 --> 00:01:25.069 entertainment. Chatterbox, the best interviews 00:01:25.069 --> 00:01:29.370 with Nick and Sue. Chatterbox, the best news. 00:01:38.219 --> 00:01:41.000 Hi, this is Barry Manilow. I'm excited to show 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:44.299 you my brand new album called What A Time. And 00:01:44.299 --> 00:01:46.379 now on Chatterbox, we're just lucky enough to 00:01:46.379 --> 00:01:48.760 welcome Barry Manilow. Barry, welcome. How are 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:51.159 you? Hello, Barry. You must be really proud of 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:53.620 your new album, What A Time. How long did it 00:01:53.620 --> 00:01:57.560 take to write the album? Yes, I am. I am so happy 00:01:57.560 --> 00:01:59.900 that I was able to make an album with these songs 00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:03.719 on it. See, I've been writing concept albums 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:08.539 for many years. Swing Street, Showstoppers, Here 00:02:08.539 --> 00:02:10.759 With The May Flowers, Singing With The Big Bands, 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:15.060 greatest songs of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s. And 00:02:15.060 --> 00:02:19.159 these albums took up years. And yet, I kept writing 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:22.139 pop songs with my collaborators, knowing that 00:02:22.139 --> 00:02:25.460 I had no place to put these songs. And finally, 00:02:26.060 --> 00:02:29.569 I've found a place to put these songs. I'm so 00:02:29.569 --> 00:02:32.270 happy about it. I've always been crazy about 00:02:32.270 --> 00:02:34.930 these songs and I'm so happy that we were able 00:02:34.930 --> 00:02:38.729 to finally put them on an album. What a time. 00:02:39.110 --> 00:02:42.349 Barry, you've been singing since the 1960s. What 00:02:42.349 --> 00:02:45.889 is the motivation to keep you writing and singing? 00:02:46.530 --> 00:02:49.409 You know, I'm just one of those guys who likes 00:02:49.409 --> 00:02:52.710 to create. I just like getting up in the morning 00:02:52.710 --> 00:02:56.530 with a purpose. I'm just that kind of a hairpin. 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:01.379 So I create, and I like creating. I've always 00:03:01.379 --> 00:03:04.240 loved doing that. I especially love creating 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:07.639 with somebody. Very rarely do I write a song 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:10.939 by myself. Not that I can't. It's just much more 00:03:10.939 --> 00:03:14.199 fun having a collaborator, and I happen to have 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:18.719 some great collaborators. So yeah, I just keep 00:03:18.719 --> 00:03:21.580 on going. I don't know where they're gonna land, 00:03:21.979 --> 00:03:24.500 but that's not the point for me. The point is 00:03:24.500 --> 00:03:28.370 creating. And I just love creating. Your new 00:03:28.370 --> 00:03:30.590 album, What A Time, sounds like a roller coaster 00:03:30.590 --> 00:03:32.949 of emotions with different styles and songs. 00:03:33.189 --> 00:03:35.569 Well, you know, I've always done that. If you 00:03:35.569 --> 00:03:38.129 look back on the earlier albums that I made before 00:03:38.129 --> 00:03:41.909 I started doing those concept albums, I go from 00:03:41.909 --> 00:03:44.590 one style of music to the next, to the next, 00:03:44.629 --> 00:03:48.550 to the next. You know, take a genius like Stephen 00:03:48.550 --> 00:03:52.349 Sondheim. You put on the first cut of his latest 00:03:52.349 --> 00:03:55.580 Broadway musical. brilliant as it is when you 00:03:55.580 --> 00:03:58.960 play the second cut it's pretty much the same 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:02.400 style as the first one and you put on the third 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.280 cut and the style is pretty much the same they're 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:09.180 brilliant brilliant but I don't do that I've 00:04:09.180 --> 00:04:12.520 never done that I go from one style of music 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:15.979 to the next style to the next style that's what 00:04:15.979 --> 00:04:19.560 you're hearing and I just always love doing that 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:23.939 it must feel good when the greatest young artists 00:04:23.939 --> 00:04:27.459 in the world, like Sabrina Carpenter, want to 00:04:27.459 --> 00:04:32.240 work with you? Yes, it was great. Great feeling. 00:04:33.060 --> 00:04:35.279 But, you know, I'm always surprised when young 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:41.459 people like her even know what I do. These days 00:04:41.459 --> 00:04:45.220 I'm actually being recognised for my music more 00:04:45.220 --> 00:04:48.879 than I've ever been recognised. Not just walking 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:52.660 down the street, but in general. You know, I 00:04:52.660 --> 00:04:55.339 had this problem that took me to the hospital 00:04:55.339 --> 00:04:57.500 for a couple of weeks and it was really kind 00:04:57.500 --> 00:05:02.660 of scary. But people, strangers, came out of 00:05:02.660 --> 00:05:05.800 the woodwork just saying the most beautiful things. 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:10.120 People that I knew and many people that I didn't 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:14.420 know. It was those people that got me through 00:05:14.420 --> 00:05:18.720 the situation that I was in. These people were 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:22.860 so kind. and just so encouraging to me. You know, 00:05:22.939 --> 00:05:25.980 they would say, you'll make it through, don't 00:05:25.980 --> 00:05:28.819 come back too soon, we're all rooting for you. 00:05:29.779 --> 00:05:32.839 It was those people that got me through the scary 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:36.459 situation that I was in. I'm so grateful to them. 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:40.339 Barry, you are back in the UK for some concerts 00:05:40.339 --> 00:05:43.899 this week. Can you remember your first ever concert 00:05:43.899 --> 00:05:46.899 in the UK? Well, you know, the first time I played 00:05:46.899 --> 00:05:51.720 in England, was somewhere in the 1970s. And I 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:55.600 think we played the London Palladium and we sold 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:58.540 out. It was just amazing to me that we could 00:05:58.540 --> 00:06:02.720 do that since I'd never been to Britain. But 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:08.180 the very first show that we did, I felt as if 00:06:08.180 --> 00:06:11.920 I knew them. And I think they felt as if they 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:17.970 knew me. But these audiences... They always felt 00:06:17.970 --> 00:06:21.810 like family to me. You were recently diagnosed 00:06:21.810 --> 00:06:25.170 with lung cancer and underwent major surgery. 00:06:25.310 --> 00:06:29.949 How's the recovery going? The recovery has been 00:06:29.949 --> 00:06:33.910 going slow. That's what the doctors tell me. 00:06:34.970 --> 00:06:38.250 This takes a while to get your lungs back in 00:06:38.250 --> 00:06:42.370 shape. And me, I have no patients, so it's been 00:06:42.370 --> 00:06:46.259 agony. But I think I'm getting better. I think 00:06:46.259 --> 00:06:51.879 I'm slowly getting better and I thank everybody 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:54.500 for being concerned. What would you like to say 00:06:54.500 --> 00:06:56.579 to all those fans that are there with you at 00:06:56.579 --> 00:06:59.740 the beginning? Well, of course I would say a 00:06:59.740 --> 00:07:03.860 big thank you. I wouldn't be here without them. 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:08.100 These are great people, I'm not kidding. I've 00:07:08.100 --> 00:07:10.860 met them and you want to have dinner with all 00:07:10.860 --> 00:07:13.379 of them. You want to sit and listen to music 00:07:13.379 --> 00:07:16.579 with them. I'm very proud to have these kinds 00:07:16.579 --> 00:07:20.259 of people calling themselves fans. I'm very proud 00:07:20.259 --> 00:07:23.980 to have them in my life. Tell us about song number 00:07:23.980 --> 00:07:26.639 one on your new album, Once Before I Go. Okay, 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:29.980 the first song, Peter Allen and Dean Pitchford 00:07:29.980 --> 00:07:34.019 wrote this song. Two friends of mine and Claude 00:07:34.019 --> 00:07:36.939 called me a few years ago and he said, you know, 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:39.579 did you ever hear of a song called Once Before 00:07:39.579 --> 00:07:42.740 I Go? And I said, oh yeah, Peter played that 00:07:42.740 --> 00:07:45.660 for me. in my old apartment when I was living 00:07:45.660 --> 00:07:49.860 in New York, he said, you should do this. You 00:07:49.860 --> 00:07:52.779 should do this song. You know, I loved it then. 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:55.600 It brought me to tears. But I never thought about 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:57.699 recording it because when Peter showed it to 00:07:57.699 --> 00:08:01.000 me, I was too young to sing a song like this. 00:08:01.779 --> 00:08:05.439 But when Clive reminded me of it, well, time 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:08.660 had gone by and now it doesn't feel so wrong 00:08:08.660 --> 00:08:12.620 to sing a song like this. I was lucky because 00:08:12.620 --> 00:08:15.920 I was on the road and the great Kenny Babyface 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:19.420 Edmonds produced this record and it's a beautiful 00:08:19.420 --> 00:08:23.220 rendition of the song. I hope Peter would have 00:08:23.220 --> 00:08:27.220 liked it, most of all I hope you do. Yeah Barry, 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:30.279 song number two, how did the song number two 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:34.440 come about? So the title of the album is What 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:38.399 A Time and it's a song about looking back. And 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:41.840 I'm a sucker for a song about looking back with 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:44.620 a brilliant and emotional lyric by the great 00:08:44.620 --> 00:08:47.899 John Bettis. I'm very proud of my melody, but 00:08:47.899 --> 00:08:52.139 really, it's the lyric and the idea that's the 00:08:52.139 --> 00:08:56.960 star of this song. This is the title song from 00:08:56.960 --> 00:08:59.970 the album. It's called What A Time. At song number 00:08:59.970 --> 00:09:03.149 three, Sunshine has quite a story attached to 00:09:03.149 --> 00:09:05.669 it. Now here's an interesting story. I got a 00:09:05.669 --> 00:09:08.629 phone call from my friend Gary Barlow of Take 00:09:08.629 --> 00:09:12.690 That fame. He was working on a new original album 00:09:12.690 --> 00:09:15.529 and he asked me to listen to the album and pick 00:09:15.529 --> 00:09:19.570 one song to arrange. I love arranging music. 00:09:19.929 --> 00:09:24.409 So I picked this song called Sunshine and he 00:09:24.409 --> 00:09:27.320 released it on his album. and it's a terrific, 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:30.700 feel -good song. From my rendition of it on my 00:09:30.700 --> 00:09:33.539 album, I played around with it and I loved what 00:09:33.539 --> 00:09:36.519 David Benson and Greg Barth held and I did with 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:39.159 the production. Listen to this, this is called 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:47.340 Sunshine by Gary Barlow and myself. The next 00:09:47.340 --> 00:09:49.399 cut is called Another Life and we're calling 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:53.600 it 2026 because I have recorded this song on 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:58.629 this crazy... box set which included everything 00:09:58.629 --> 00:10:04.250 and everything I've ever opened my mouth to sing 00:10:04.250 --> 00:10:07.610 or to talk. Everybody was doing box sets back 00:10:07.610 --> 00:10:13.090 in those days. And this one barely made it on 00:10:13.090 --> 00:10:15.950 the box set. I've always loved it. It's a real 00:10:15.950 --> 00:10:19.269 rock and roll ballad, man. It was written by 00:10:19.269 --> 00:10:22.730 Preston Sturges and Andrew Hill. It's a real 00:10:22.730 --> 00:10:27.559 interesting concept. because he's moved on, but 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:31.139 she hasn't. We haven't heard a song quite like 00:10:31.139 --> 00:10:34.059 that in a long time. 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Use code CBUKRDUX at oldglory .com 00:11:59.309 --> 00:12:02.429 for 15 % off your entire order. The link is also 00:12:02.429 --> 00:12:04.669 waiting for you in the show notes of this podcast. 00:12:05.049 --> 00:12:31.259 Don't forget, CBUKRDUX. Now this is the first 00:12:31.259 --> 00:12:34.139 bona fide gospel song that Bruce and I had ever 00:12:34.139 --> 00:12:37.220 wrote. Bruce meaning my wonderful friend and 00:12:37.220 --> 00:12:40.240 collaborator, Ruth Sussman. He's so brilliant. 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:43.379 We wrote this for Whitney Houston and had nearly 00:12:43.379 --> 00:12:46.379 made it on her last album. I've always loved 00:12:46.379 --> 00:12:49.259 it. So I took a pass at singing the lead vocal. 00:12:49.820 --> 00:12:52.620 It was such fun to sing the lead on this song, 00:12:53.059 --> 00:12:56.820 backed by a huge gospel choir. Yeah, hope you 00:12:56.820 --> 00:13:00.200 like it. What is the story behind song number 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:03.500 six, The Chosen One? Okay, this next song, I 00:13:03.500 --> 00:13:06.519 wrote this on a hot day in Malibu. I watched 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:09.039 the sea and the sand from the picture window 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:11.899 of the house that we were renting. I usually 00:13:11.899 --> 00:13:14.580 just write the melody and leave it to the geniuses 00:13:14.580 --> 00:13:17.480 that I collaborated with to write the lyrics. 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:20.820 But this time, it came to me to write the lyrics 00:13:20.820 --> 00:13:24.370 and the music. The song is about a guy who thought 00:13:24.370 --> 00:13:28.009 he was the chosen one, but it turns out that 00:13:28.009 --> 00:13:31.370 she chooses somebody else. I think we've all 00:13:31.370 --> 00:13:34.090 been there. I love the production of this song 00:13:34.090 --> 00:13:38.370 because it starts so easy and winds up so passionate 00:13:38.370 --> 00:13:42.470 at the end. I love songs like that. This is the 00:13:42.470 --> 00:13:46.029 chosen one. The song, One More Chance, has some 00:13:46.029 --> 00:13:48.870 amazing lines in it. Another wonderful lyric 00:13:48.870 --> 00:13:51.970 by my longtime collaborator, Bruce Susman. You 00:13:51.970 --> 00:13:55.470 know, it's very difficult for Bruce and I to 00:13:55.470 --> 00:13:58.990 write a pop song. You see, pop songs by their 00:13:58.990 --> 00:14:03.029 nature are all about I love you or I miss you. 00:14:03.250 --> 00:14:06.070 And that's it. Because if you write anything 00:14:06.070 --> 00:14:09.450 other than I love you or I miss you, then you're 00:14:09.450 --> 00:14:12.470 writing a Broadway song. So it's difficult to 00:14:12.470 --> 00:14:14.710 write a pop song with those rules for writers 00:14:14.710 --> 00:14:17.970 like Bruce and I. So Bruce, being the genius 00:14:17.970 --> 00:14:21.889 that he is, placed the vocalist on the phone 00:14:21.889 --> 00:14:25.169 late at night. My favorite lines that he wrote 00:14:25.169 --> 00:14:29.649 on this song say, I talk to friends, ask them 00:14:29.649 --> 00:14:33.330 what to do. Why talk to friends when my best 00:14:33.330 --> 00:14:38.190 friend is you? So here is one more chance. Song 00:14:38.190 --> 00:14:41.710 number eight. Nobody Knows My Song sounds like 00:14:41.710 --> 00:14:44.570 a very special song. OK, the next song, it's 00:14:44.570 --> 00:14:49.179 a wonderful lyric by Enoch Anderson. It's a song 00:14:49.179 --> 00:14:52.220 about wanting the world to know that you are 00:14:52.220 --> 00:14:56.039 an original, that there's only one like you. 00:14:56.820 --> 00:14:58.620 I always thought that this song would appeal 00:14:58.620 --> 00:15:00.799 to young people because they're always feeling 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:03.879 so left out and they want to be individuals. 00:15:04.259 --> 00:15:06.580 It's kind of an uplifting song. And because of 00:15:06.580 --> 00:15:09.899 that, put this lyric to a very aggressive dance 00:15:09.899 --> 00:15:12.940 rhythm. So listen to this. Nobody knows my song. 00:15:13.100 --> 00:15:17.320 Song number nine is a duet. with Sharon Muffy 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:21.919 Hendrix. How did that come about? I made a demo 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:25.659 of this song many years ago and I asked my dear 00:15:25.659 --> 00:15:28.940 friend Muffy Hendrix to do the vocal with me. 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:32.440 Muffy has been with me on the road with me for 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:35.539 oh my god since the very beginning. I've always 00:15:35.539 --> 00:15:38.399 loved this song but there was never any room 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:41.320 for it on the concept albums that I was making. 00:15:41.610 --> 00:15:45.330 I'm so happy I can show this song to everybody. 00:15:46.129 --> 00:15:50.029 It has a beautiful lyric by the late Lisa Sennett, 00:15:50.250 --> 00:15:53.389 who also wrote the lyrics to When Love is Gone 00:15:53.389 --> 00:15:57.309 on the 2AM Paradise Cafe album. She was a prolific 00:15:57.309 --> 00:16:00.769 and terrific lyricist. This is as close to a 00:16:00.769 --> 00:16:04.970 country song as I've ever gotten. I asked Muffy 00:16:04.970 --> 00:16:07.950 to sing the female part of the song since nobody 00:16:07.950 --> 00:16:11.149 could top her vocal. on that first demo. Muffy's 00:16:11.149 --> 00:16:13.409 been with me since the beginning of my career. 00:16:13.409 --> 00:16:17.049 She was there and watched my star ascend from 00:16:17.049 --> 00:16:22.409 the very first big concert in 1974. She watched 00:16:22.409 --> 00:16:25.769 as Mandy hit the number one spot, followed by 00:16:25.769 --> 00:16:28.909 all the rest. I love Muffy. Everybody loves Muffy. 00:16:29.090 --> 00:16:31.990 I love her like a sister. So here's me and Muffy 00:16:31.990 --> 00:16:34.570 doing when somebody says goodbye. Song number 00:16:34.570 --> 00:16:36.830 10, Don't Trouble the Water. And it's another 00:16:36.830 --> 00:16:39.700 great lyric by Nick Anderson. It comes up with 00:16:39.700 --> 00:16:42.200 some really interesting ideas for lyrics and 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:44.759 this is one of them. It's called Don't Trouble 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:47.779 the Water. I put it to a kind of a Calypso beat. 00:16:47.820 --> 00:16:50.580 I've never done one of those ever and I really 00:16:50.580 --> 00:16:53.179 liked it. It was produced by my buddies David 00:16:53.179 --> 00:16:56.559 Benson and Glenn Barthel. One of the things I 00:16:56.559 --> 00:17:00.139 love about the song is the vocal bass line all 00:17:00.139 --> 00:17:03.159 through the song. You'll hear it. It's called 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:05.779 Don't Trouble the Water. Dave Cos joins you on 00:17:05.779 --> 00:17:08.539 song number 11. Look at me now. What is the story 00:17:08.539 --> 00:17:11.279 behind that? OK, it's another wonderful lyric 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:14.539 and concept by John Bettis. And my friend Dave 00:17:14.539 --> 00:17:17.180 Kaas makes a lovely appearance on this song. 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:20.980 He's so great. I'm very proud of my melody and 00:17:20.980 --> 00:17:24.359 the production is done by the multi Grammy award 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:28.500 winning Dave Cobb. He loved this song so much 00:17:28.500 --> 00:17:31.880 that he texted me after he was done and he wrote 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:35.319 that all the musicians loved. playing this song 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:38.019 with all these crazy chord changes that I've 00:17:38.019 --> 00:17:40.720 written. He said, I can't wait for the world 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:44.599 to hear this song. That's what he said. I hope 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:46.920 everybody likes it as much as he does. You know, 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:49.519 I sang this song once or twice in concerts now 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:52.119 and again, not many times, and yet I keep getting 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:55.019 notes from the audience, people in the audience 00:17:55.019 --> 00:17:58.460 that heard me do that song. What is that song? 00:17:58.500 --> 00:18:00.579 Where can I hear it? Where can I get it, really? 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:03.059 So I'm happy that I could put this song on the 00:18:03.059 --> 00:18:06.029 album. I really love it. For those people and 00:18:06.029 --> 00:18:08.789 for everybody. It's a really beautiful piece. 00:18:08.789 --> 00:18:11.109 I'm very proud of it. It's called Look At Me 00:18:11.109 --> 00:18:15.250 Now. Song 12, Nobody Told Me, has quite a story 00:18:15.250 --> 00:18:18.390 to it. OK, so it's a beautiful song with a beautiful 00:18:18.390 --> 00:18:21.829 lyric by John Mattis. It's a wonderful idea for 00:18:21.829 --> 00:18:25.710 a song. It's a terrible situation that the singer 00:18:25.710 --> 00:18:29.670 finds himself in. He falls out of love with somebody 00:18:29.670 --> 00:18:33.869 and then his best friend falls in love with that 00:18:33.869 --> 00:18:37.819 girl. Wow. It's a beautiful song, and I'm very 00:18:37.819 --> 00:18:40.859 proud of it. Here, listen. Nobody told me. And 00:18:40.859 --> 00:18:43.539 last but not least, coming of age. I think this 00:18:43.539 --> 00:18:46.359 is one of Adrienne Anderson's most interesting 00:18:46.359 --> 00:18:49.240 lyrics. It didn't take me too long to put a melody 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:52.000 to her lyric, but it really took a long time 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:56.099 to arrange and conceptualize this song. I found 00:18:56.099 --> 00:18:59.259 my way to the talented producer named Michael 00:18:59.259 --> 00:19:02.509 Nielsen. Together with Michael Lloyd and myself, 00:19:02.769 --> 00:19:05.390 Michael Nielsen did a wonderful job creating 00:19:05.390 --> 00:19:09.170 this rendition of the song. I love what Adrian 00:19:09.170 --> 00:19:12.910 did. Listen, this is a really interesting song. 00:19:13.609 --> 00:19:15.910 Coming of age. 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