Submitted photo / Jamie Overton Engelbert Humperdinck, who will celebrate his 90th birthday on May 2, returns to Packard Music Hall in Warren for a concert on Saturday.

Engelbert Humperdinck’s 2024-25 tour was supposed to be his final one. He even billed it as “The Last Waltz” tour.

Humperdinck quickly decided he wanted to keep dancing or, in his case, singing.

“I sat at home for about two, three months, and I was climbing the wall,” Humperdinck said Monday during a telephone interview. “I called management, and I said, ‘Listen, if you think this is the ‘Last Waltz’ tour, you’re crazy. I’m going crazy. Let’s get back on the road and do another big tour next year, and so we called it the ‘Celebration’ tour.'”

As he approaches his 90th birthday on May 2, Humperdinck has more projects in the works than most performers half his age. In addition to that tour, which comes to Warren’s Packard Music Hall on Saturday, he has a standalone single set for release on his birthday and a separate album project also completed.

The single is “I Got You,” which Humperdinck said was the final song written by Larry Butler, who won a Grammy for writing “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song” and produced many of Kenny Rogers’ hit albums in the late ’70s and ’80s.

Humperdinck recorded the song with Joel Diamond. He co-produced one of Humperdinck’s biggest hits, 1976’s “After the Lovin’,” which topped the adult contemporary charts and was a top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100.

“I just listened to the copy of it that we just sent in, the final mix, and it’s so beautiful,” he said. “It really is a good song.”

“I Got You” had the qualities Humperdinck looks for in a song.

“It’s got to have a lasting appeal and good melody and good lyric content, and it’s got to mean something that people can relate to,” he said. “And it’s very commercial, I think.”

The album project, which will be released by Cleopatra Records, features Humperdinck covering ’80s power ballads by such rock acts as Journey, Aerosmith and KISS. He’s added Journey’s “Faithfully” to his setlist.

“We just thought we’d do something different, and Cleopatra Records was very interested in making a project as such, and it turned out quite good actually,” Humperdinck said. “I mean, you wouldn’t think a person my age would be doing things like that, but I’m doing things that people don’t expect me to do.”

Humperdinck is using 21st century tools to get the word out about those projects. The Philadelphia Inquirer recently described him as “an unlikely Tik Tok star” due to his 200,000+ followers on the platform most associated with young people.

“You’ve got to use everything to get out there,” he said. “And I think it’s important to just keep up with the times.”

He credited the use of his song “Man without Love” on the Disney+ series “Moon Knight” with exposing his music to a younger audience, and some of those viewers went in search of more information about the crooner.

In recent years, Humperdinck’s songs have been featured in the films “Bullet Train” and “Game Night” and in the HBO limited series “Sharp Objects,” and his history of unexpected cover songs includes recording “Lesbian Seagull” for the soundtrack of “Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.”

Professionally, Humperdinck is celebrating his 90th year by keeping busy. He doesn’t know yet what he’ll be doing on the actual date.

“It’s a bit of a secret in my family and my people that are looking after me, so I don’t know. They’re planning everything. It’s a secret.”

If you go …

WHO: Engelbert Humperdinck

WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday

WHERE: Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave NW, Warren

HOW MUCH: Tickets range from $46.50 to $98 and are available through Ticketmaster.