# Help me identify this Barry Manilow song.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-barry-manilow-song/113113>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 9, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-barry-manilow-song/113113 "2002-06-09T16:11:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Barking\_Spider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Barking\_Spider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Spider)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-barry-manilow-song/113113/1 "2002-06-09T16:11:32Z")

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This is a Manilow song that came out in the 70s. The lyrics go something like this:

Spirits move me  
Every time I’m near you  
… … …  
Sweet Melissa  
Angel of my lifetime  
… … …

And then it has a chorus that goes like this:

Come, come, come into my arms  
Let me feel the wonder of all of you.

I also remember the music to the song seems like it was lifted out of a classical music catalogue.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-barry-manilow-song/113113/2 "2002-06-09T16:19:44Z")

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The song was called either “Could This Be Magic?” or “Could This Be the Magic?”, and large parts of the music were lifted directly from one of Frederic Chopin’s nocturnes.

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**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-barry-manilow-song/113113/3 "2002-06-09T19:35:14Z")

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It’s [Could It Be Magic?](http://tine.hypermart.net/lyrics/cibm.html)

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**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-barry-manilow-song/113113/4 "2002-06-09T20:11:25Z")

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It was also done by Dionne Warwick some years back.

Robin

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**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-barry-manilow-song/113113/5 "2002-06-09T22:56:30Z")

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Dionne Warwick? :eek:

Yuck.

Donna Summer also did a cover of it that was rather steamy.