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Speaker 1: Hey there, it's very hi, Mr Mandeloe. How are you good? So,

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Speaker 1: Mr Mandeloe, Barry Mandeloe coming back to Las Vegas. I

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Speaker 1: was so sad when you left last time, because that's

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Speaker 1: that's one of those shows that like I took one

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Speaker 1: friend two and then I had to come back and

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Speaker 1: bring more friends because you are phenomenal on stage. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Yeah, you know. Uh have we played five

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Speaker 1: years at the old Hilton and two years at the

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Speaker 1: Paris and they were great years. I have nothing but

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Speaker 1: great memories. And um, this genius, uh, David Siegel bought

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Speaker 1: the Hilton, changed the name to the whist Gate and

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Speaker 1: now and put like multivillions of dollars and it's gorgeous.

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Speaker 1: It's just just fantastic. And they asked me to come

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Speaker 1: back and you know, do a residency there, and it

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Speaker 1: was the right time. I have nothing but great memories

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Speaker 1: of it, and I said yes, and so here we

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Speaker 1: go again, Vegas, watch out, coming back. Barry is back.

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Speaker 1: And uh. One of the things that impressed me when

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Speaker 1: I was there years ago was your your energy level

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Speaker 1: and it was like an out almost two hours that

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Speaker 1: you just sang and played and played and sang and

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Speaker 1: just had everybody on their feet. So I'm thinking, I

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Speaker 1: I was thinking, silly me, Well, you're probably gonna like

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Speaker 1: like cut back and yeah, I don't know, do a

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Speaker 1: smaller version. No, you're doing like you're doing the whole shebang,

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Speaker 1: like almost did the ninety minutes show again. Oh yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: you know, I like it. I just like it. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're not touring the way we used to. You know,

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Speaker 1: I used to go off for months at a time.

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Speaker 1: I don't do that anymore, not because I can't, but

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Speaker 1: because I wanted. I just wanted to be home more

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Speaker 1: than I was. But um um, but that's what I do.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just a full of energy guy and

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Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to be going away at all. And

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Speaker 1: so many offered me to come back to Vegas. It's

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Speaker 1: going to be another one of those fun evenings. It

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Speaker 1: will be full of music and full of production and

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Speaker 1: you know you'll have a good time. So I asked

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Speaker 1: my staff, the Delila producers, you know, do you guys

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Speaker 1: have any questions for Barry? And oddly enough, there there

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Speaker 1: are two people that were jumping through hoops to get

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Speaker 1: to you. One is my best friend from fourth grade,

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Speaker 1: d D, who's here in the studio listening to every

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Speaker 1: word we say and just grinning from here to here,

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Speaker 1: because the two of us had crushes on you, like

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Speaker 1: so bad, so bad, Like I even wanted to get

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Speaker 1: a damn bagel back in the day and name it

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Speaker 1: Bagel just to be like you. But the other person

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Speaker 1: that that was like sending me question after question is

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Speaker 1: my adult daughter, Lenika, who's one of my producers. She's like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, Mom, oh my god, you're really going

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Speaker 1: to talk to Barry. I'm like, um yeah, She goes,

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Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta know these things. So she has

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Speaker 1: a couple of questions here do we have time to

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Speaker 1: ask these? Who the hell is sweet Melissa? Oh? Um? Well,

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Speaker 1: when I wrote that, it was back in the seventies

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Speaker 1: and Melissa Manchester was my best friend. We used to

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Speaker 1: sing on jingles and then I got her the job

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Speaker 1: of a singing background for Bette Midler when I started

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Speaker 1: working with Bed and she was looking for three girls. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: Melissa is one of the great greatest singers ever, and

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Speaker 1: so she wound up singing back out background. Is she?

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Speaker 1: I think She was one of the first hard Letts

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Speaker 1: few months, I think, and then Melissa was so great

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Speaker 1: that she never stayed as a background singer. She became

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Speaker 1: wrote the words Melissa, and I was thinking of Melissa

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Speaker 1: Manchester and it's such a beautiful name. And that's the

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Speaker 1: story of that. You just gave me chills. D D

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Speaker 1: shaking her hands, going Melissa Manchester, My god. We love

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Speaker 1: Melissa Manchester. So are you still friends with these people?

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Speaker 1: Are you and Bet still friends? Are you? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know. I I've did a couple of albums for her,

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Speaker 1: Peggy Lee Tribute and they were very successful. And the

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Speaker 1: Peggy Lee Tribune I could listen to a thousand times. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they were very successful and we had a great time. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so the sweet Melissa thinking of Melissa Manchester. Now. Her

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Speaker 1: next question was, you took a world famous funeral Dirge

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Speaker 1: Chopin's funeral song and turned it into one of the

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Speaker 1: most inspiring love songs ever where. Did that creativity come from?

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Speaker 1: Great question, like how did you go that? That's still

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Speaker 1: from the from that song Could Have Been Magic? Melissa

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Speaker 1: comes from I Could Be Magic, And the whole song

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Speaker 1: I came back to the piano, I wrote this beautiful

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Speaker 1: song that I called it Could Have Be Magic, and

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Speaker 1: Chovam players from C Minor. So if you look at

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Speaker 1: the credits on Could Have Magic, it is always says

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Speaker 1: inspired by the Chow Vampires in C Minor because um,

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Speaker 1: I used his chord changes. It's my melody, but his

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Speaker 1: core changes. It's so gorgeous, so gorgeous, and the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Because when I heard I was going to get to

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Speaker 1: interview you, of course I had to like pull out

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Speaker 1: all of my favorites and that was the one that

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Speaker 1: is my daughter Lenika's favorite and listen to it and

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Speaker 1: it still gives chills. It's still those chord changes in

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Speaker 1: your heart just wells and and you feel that that

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Speaker 1: intoxicating feeling of could it be couldn't be? Magic? Again,

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Speaker 1: I absolutely agree with you, and it couldn't. I couldn't

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Speaker 1: be more flatter like you're saying that, because how long

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Speaker 1: I wrote this, never even thinking that it would ever

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Speaker 1: idea that I would ever wind up to be a singer,

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Speaker 1: So I was writing it for other singers. So when

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Speaker 1: Thank you for saying that, not just not just chills,

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Speaker 1: that love, that intense, magical moment that just ah, you

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Speaker 1: make me smile, you make me cry. Oh, thank you, honey,

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Speaker 1: thank you really, thank you so much for saying those

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Speaker 1: things about my music. You know, my music has meant

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Speaker 1: say those things. It really really means a lot. Now,

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Speaker 1: who shot? Who? It was Tony that died, wasn't it?

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Speaker 1: You have to figure that out. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: I got shot, I played Tony and I got shot.

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Speaker 1: But the record, uh doesn't tell you who got shot?

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Speaker 1: I know it doesn't. I know it doesn't, nor does.

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Speaker 1: You did a video of it too, and the video

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Speaker 1: doesn't give it away. Yeah. See, these are the Delilah dilemmas.

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Speaker 1: We must know the answers too. No, that's up to

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Speaker 1: the list. You've been very generous, Barry. You donated some

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Speaker 1: tickets to your new show in Las Vegas, to premium

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Speaker 1: tickets that we are going to auction off to raise

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Speaker 1: funds for kids in foster care through Point Hope. And uh.

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Speaker 1: And so when you know, when you're performing, when you're playing,

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Speaker 1: you're not just blessing everybody in the audience. You're blessing

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Speaker 1: foster kids that you'll probably never even get a chance

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Speaker 1: to meet. But I just wanted to say thank you

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Speaker 1: for that. My pleasure sounds very important. So I'm happy

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Speaker 1: to be able to do that. All right, So you're playing, Uh, May, June, July,

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Speaker 1: I see your your vacationing hopefully in August, but you're

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Speaker 1: back in September and October, rights and that's when I'll

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Speaker 1: be there, all right, Well, I will see you there,

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Speaker 1: and I can't wait to give you a hug again.

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Speaker 1: It's been probably fifteen twenty years since I've seen you.

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Speaker 1: And make sure that we know you're in the AD

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Speaker 1: and so we can we can see each other. I

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Speaker 1: will do that. Barry Mandelowte, thank you for your time

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Speaker 1: today with the Delilah Show, and just just break a

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Speaker 1: leg and have as much fun as you have every

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Speaker 1: other time I've seen you. Great, Thanks, thanks for this. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Barry. God bless bye bye