The award-winning songwriter, singer and actress Melissa Manchester discusses her new album RE:VIEW (2024), her versatile career, and more, with Joseph Planta.

Text of the introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

Melissa Manchester joins me now. Her twenty-fifth album RE:VIEW will be released tomorrow, featuring ten songs, fresh takes on her Billboard-charted classic hits; she’s had nineteen of them. Right now, she’s playing the role of Mrs. Brice in the national tour of Funny Girl, but we spoke in early December about the songs on this new album, writing music, singing, her friends, and her fifty-year career which includes a Grammy Award for 1982’s “You Should Hear How She Talks About You,” and nominations for “Don’t Cry Out Loud” in 1980, which are redone on this new album, alongside other hits “Come in From the Rain,” “Confide in Me,” and her first hit in 1975, “Midnight Blue.” The new recording on this album is a duet with Dolly Parton. Another duet partner on RE:VIEW is Kenny Loggins, who with Dave Koz, sing with Ms. Manchester on the album’s opening track, “Whenever I Call You Friend.” Melissa Manchester’s website is at www.melissamanchester.com, where you can read more about her long and versatile career as a songwriter, singer and actress on both stage and screen. In 2021, she was inducted into the Great American Songbook Foundation’s Hall of Fame. She is also the recipient of the Governor’s Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. This new album is from Green Hill, which is a subsidiary of Primary Wave Music. You can get the album tomorrow, Friday, 23 February 2024 everywhere including Apple Music and Spotify. She joined me from Los Angeles. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Melissa Manchester; Ms. Manchester, good morning.

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