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Manilow released his version as a single in 1976 from the album Tryin' to Get the Feeling. It charted in the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 10. The song also hit number 1 on the adult contemporary chart.[1] An alternate version, at a slightly longer time length, appears on The Complete Collection and Then Some....
The Carpenters' version of "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again" was recorded during the Horizon sessions in 1975, but it had been shelved as being "one too many ballads". Years later, Richard was looking for the master backing track for "Only Yesterday" and discovered on that same tape the lost, earlier attempt at "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again" with Karen's "work lead." (A work lead can easily be identified by such anomalies as Karen flipping a sheet of paper over at about 1:50 into the play time of the song as she sight reads and sings.) Richard felt that the vocal was good enough to finish production of the song and release it, as he did in 1994, almost 20 years after it was recorded.
