Barry Manilow will cover hit songs from the 1950s for his new album, which re-teams the singer with longtime collaborator Clive Davis.

?The Great Songs of the Fifties,? featuring 13 tracks from the pre-rock?n?roll era, is due Jan. 31 via Arista.

The tentative track list includes such songs as the Everly Brothers’ “All I Have To Do Is Dream,” Elvis Presley’s “Are You Lonesome Tonight,” Tony Bennett’s “Rags to Riches,” Dinah Washington’s “What a Difference a Day Makes” and Bobby Darin’s “Beyond the Sea.”

Phyllis McGuire of the McGuire Sisters guests on a medley of “Sincerely” and “Teach Me Tonight.”

“Being given the opportunity to co-produce, co-arrange and sing these rarely sung golden standards is a privilege,” said Manilow, according to Billboard. “I hope they affect a new generation of listeners as deeply as they did those of us who were there.”

The set will be offered as a CD and as a DualDisc release with behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the album.

Manilow is currently performing his revue “Music and Passion” in Las Vegas, for which he is scheduled through December 2006.

Here is the tentative track list for “The Greatest Songs of the Fifties? (according to Billboard):

“Moments To Remember”
“All I Have To Do Is Dream”
“It’s Not for Me To Say”
“It’s All in the Game”
“Young at Heart”
“Love Is a Many Splendored Thing”
“Are You Lonesome Tonight”
“Rags to Riches”
“Beyond the Sea”
“Unchained Melody”
“What a Difference a Day Makes”
“Sincerely/Teach Me Tonight” (medley)
“Venus”






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