Barry Manilow Songs Trivia Quiz

Barry Manilow: Songs and Sing-Alongs
Trivia Challenge
Barry Manilow: Songs and Sing-Alongs
Twelve questions move from signature hits and story songs into collaborators, movie music, and a few sharper songwriting facts.
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Barry Manilow: Songs and Sing-Alongs focuses on the romantic ballads, theatrical story songs, polished stage performances, and crowd favorites that defined his classic pop years. The questions begin with familiar hits before gradually moving into writers and collaborators.
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What This Quiz Covers

The quiz covers a breakthrough woman’s-name ballad, a theatrical nightclub story, New York roots, an early celebrity collaboration, romantic concert favorites, a movie song, and songwriting credits.

Trivia Study Guide ›
  1. Which 1978 Barry Manilow ballad also served as the title track of one of his best-known albums?
  2. Before his solo stardom, Barry Manilow worked as pianist and musical director for which singer?
  3. Which Barry Manilow song draws its musical inspiration from a prelude by Frédéric Chopin?
  4. Which 1978 Barry Manilow hit had been recorded earlier by the Carpenters?
  5. Which Barry Manilow hit was written by Richard Kerr and lyricist Will Jennings?
  6. In which New York City borough was Barry Manilow born?
  7. Barry Manilow recorded “Ready to Take a Chance Again” for which 1978 comedy-thriller?
  8. Which Randy Edelman composition became a major Barry Manilow romantic ballad in 1976?
  9. Who actually wrote the Barry Manilow hit “I Write the Songs”?
  10. Which upbeat Barry Manilow song was co-written with lyricist Adrienne Anderson and became a concert favorite?
  11. Which breakthrough hit had originally been written under the title “Brandy” before Barry Manilow recorded it?
  12. Which Barry Manilow hit tells the dramatic story of Lola, Tony, and Rico?
Barry Manilow: Songs and Sing-Alongs
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