<Table> <Tr> <Td> "Could It Be Magic" (1975) </Td> <Td> "I Write the Songs" (1975) </Td> <Td> "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again" (1976) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "Could It Be Magic" (1975) </Td> <Td> "I Write the Songs" (1975) </Td> <Td> "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again" (1976) </Td> </Tr> <P> "I Write the Songs" is a popular song written by Bruce Johnston in 1975 and made famous by Barry Manilow . Manilow's version reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1976 after spending two weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart in December 1975 . It won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year and was nominated for Record of the Year in 1977 . Billboard ranked it as the No. 13 song of 1976 . </P> <P> The original version was recorded by The Captain & Tennille, who worked with Johnston in the early 1970s with The Beach Boys . It appears on their 1975 album, Love Will Keep Us Together . The first release of I Write the Songs as a single was by then teen - idol David Cassidy from his 1975 solo album The Higher They Climb, which was also produced by Bruce Johnston . Cassidy's version reached #11 on the UK Singles Chart in August of that year . </P>

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