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“Could It Be Magic” is a song by Adrienne Anderson and Barry Manilow. It was included on Manilow’s 1973 debut album, Barry Manilow.
Due to its popularity, it was released as a single in 1975, two years after it had originally been recorded, where it reached #6 in the United States.
Manilow’s recording begins and ends with an excerpt of Frédéric Chopin’s Prelude in C Minor, Opus 28, Number 20. The whole song is based on the harmonic scheme of Chopin’s prelude. The “sweet Melissa” is a nod to singer Melissa Manchester.
The song has been covered by a number of other artists over the years, most successfully by Donna Summer in 1976 and UK boy band Take That in the early 1990s. Manilow himself re-recorded an up-tempo version of the song in 1993, using the original...
Read on...Song lines: ♪ Let me feel the wonder of all of you ... Could it be magic now, now, now and hold on fast ... Baby I want you come, come, come into my arms ♫
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