Hey there, it's very hi, Mr Mandeloe. How are you good? So, Mr Mandeloe, Barry Mandeloe coming back to Las Vegas. I was so sad when you left last time, because that's that's one of those shows that like I took one friend two and then I had to come back and bring more friends because you are phenomenal on stage. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, you know. Uh have we played five years at the old Hilton and two years at the Paris and they were great years. I have nothing but
great memories. And um, this genius, uh, David Siegel bought the Hilton, changed the name to the whist Gate and now and put like multivillions of dollars and it's gorgeous. It's just just fantastic. And they asked me to come back and you know, do a residency there, and it was the right time. I have nothing but great memories of it, and I said yes, and so here we go again, Vegas, watch out, coming back. Barry is back.
And uh. One of the things that impressed me when I was there years ago was your your energy level and it was like an out almost two hours that you just sang and played and played and sang and laughed and played and sang and and did jingles and just had everybody on their feet. So I'm thinking, I I was thinking, silly me, Well, you're probably gonna like like cut back and yeah, I don't know, do a smaller version. No, you're doing like you're doing the whole shebang,
like almost did the ninety minutes show again. Oh yeah, no, you know, I like it. I just like it. You know, we're not touring the way we used to. You know, I used to go off for months at a time. I don't do that anymore, not because I can't, but because I wanted. I just wanted to be home more than I was. But um um, but that's what I do. You know, I'm just a full of energy guy and it doesn't seem to be going away at all. And so many offered me to come back to Vegas. It's
going to be another one of those fun evenings. It will be full of music and full of production and you know you'll have a good time. So I asked my staff, the Delila producers, you know, do you guys have any questions for Barry? And oddly enough, there there are two people that were jumping through hoops to get
to you. One is my best friend from fourth grade, d D, who's here in the studio listening to every word we say and just grinning from here to here, because the two of us had crushes on you, like so bad, so bad, Like I even wanted to get a damn bagel back in the day and name it Bagel just to be like you. But the other person that that was like sending me question after question is my adult daughter, Lenika, who's one of my producers. She's like, oh my god, Mom, oh my god, you're really going
to talk to Barry. I'm like, um yeah, She goes, I gotta, I gotta know these things. So she has a couple of questions here do we have time to ask these? Who the hell is sweet Melissa? Oh? Um? Well, when I wrote that, it was back in the seventies and Melissa Manchester was my best friend. We used to sing on jingles and then I got her the job of a singing background for Bette Midler when I started
working with Bed and she was looking for three girls. So, uh, Melissa is one of the great greatest singers ever, and so she wound up singing back out background. Is she? I think She was one of the first hard Letts for a for a for a few h for a few months, I think, and then Melissa was so great that she never stayed as a background singer. She became a Manchester Anyway. When I wrote to the Magic, I wrote the words Melissa, and I was thinking of Melissa
Manchester and it's such a beautiful name. And that's the story of that. You just gave me chills. D D and I are sitting here with our mouth wide open, shaking her hands, going Melissa Manchester, My god. We love Melissa Manchester. So are you still friends with these people? Are you and Bet still friends? Are you? Yeah? Yeah, you know. I I've did a couple of albums for her, you know. I produced the Rosemary Cluny Tribute and the Peggy Lee Tribute and they were very successful. And the
Peggy Lee Tribune I could listen to a thousand times. Yeah, they were very successful and we had a great time. Okay, so the sweet Melissa thinking of Melissa Manchester. Now. Her next question was, you took a world famous funeral Dirge Chopin's funeral song and turned it into one of the most inspiring love songs ever where. Did that creativity come from? Great question, like how did you go that? That's still
from the from that song Could Have Been Magic? Melissa comes from I Could Be Magic, And the whole song was based on the Chauffem President C Minor and um, you know, I sometimes drag out my classic classical music books just to inspire me because that's really where all the great melodies came from. And so that's what I
was doing, uh during that time. And uh then when I came back to the piano, I wrote this beautiful song that I called it Could Have Be Magic, and I realized I had stolen the chord changes from the Chovam players from C Minor. So if you look at the credits on Could Have Magic, it is always says inspired by the Chow Vampires in C Minor because um, I used his chord changes. It's my melody, but his core changes. It's so gorgeous, so gorgeous, and the whole thing.
Because when I heard I was going to get to interview you, of course I had to like pull out all of my favorites and that was the one that is my daughter Lenika's favorite and listen to it and it still gives chills. It's still those chord changes in your heart just wells and and you feel that that intoxicating feeling of could it be couldn't be? Magic? Again, I absolutely agree with you, and it couldn't. I couldn't be more flatter like you're saying that, because how long
ago did I write this. I was a kid when I wrote this, never even thinking that it would ever wind up anywhere. I thought I was writing for other people to say my songs because I had no no idea that I would ever wind up to be a singer, So I was writing it for other singers. So when you say all these years later that it still gives you chills, I couldn't be. I couldn't be more flatter.
Thank you for saying that, not just not just chills, but that swelling feeling in your bosom, that that expands and grows as the song builds and you're thinking about that, that love, that intense, magical moment that just ah, you make me smile, you make me cry. Oh, thank you, honey, thank you really, thank you so much for saying those things about my music. You know, my music has meant so much to me over the years, and when you say those things. It really really means a lot. Now,
who shot? Who? It was Tony that died, wasn't it? You have to figure that out. I mean, you know, I made a movie based on it, and in the movie, I got shot, I played Tony and I got shot. But the record, uh doesn't tell you who got shot? I know it doesn't. I know it doesn't, nor does. You did a video of it too, and the video doesn't give it away. Yeah. See, these are the Delilah dilemmas. We must know the answers too. No, that's up to
the list. You've been very generous, Barry. You donated some tickets to your new show in Las Vegas, to premium tickets that we are going to auction off to raise funds for kids in foster care through Point Hope. And uh. And so when you know, when you're performing, when you're playing, you're not just blessing everybody in the audience. You're blessing foster kids that you'll probably never even get a chance to meet. But I just wanted to say thank you
for that. My pleasure sounds very important. So I'm happy to be able to do that. All right, So you're playing, Uh, May, June, July, I see your your vacationing hopefully in August, but you're back in September and October, rights and that's when I'll be there, all right, Well, I will see you there, and I can't wait to give you a hug again. It's been probably fifteen twenty years since I've seen you. And make sure that we know you're in the AD and so we can we can see each other. I
will do that. Barry Mandelowte, thank you for your time today with the Delilah Show, and just just break a leg and have as much fun as you have every other time I've seen you. Great, Thanks, thanks for this. Thanks, Thank you, Barry. God bless bye bye