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DiscountDelight - The Greatest Songs of the Fifties
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List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $8.64
Your Save: $ 10.34 ( 54% )
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Manufacturer: Arista
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0828767450926
Label: Arista
Manufacturer: Arista
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Arista
Release Date: 2006-01-31
Studio: Arista
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Fabulous
Comment: This CD is wonderful. I play it over and over. My favorites are "Venus", "Sincerely/Teach Me Tonight" and "All I Have to do is Dream" These songs take me back to a time when music was music, and Barry does an excellent job. I look forward to more music of the fifties from him.
Simply great.
A Fan for Life.
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Summary: If you love Manilow, you'll love this...
Comment: I had a little apprehension at first about getting this CD, but it soon vanished. This is an awesome CD of covers that grabs you beginning with "Moments to Remember," the very first song and just keeps on going.
My most favorite song on the CD is "Unchained Melody" which I usually associate with the Righteous Brothers and that scene in "Ghost" with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore at the pottery wheel. After seeing the music video for Barry's version, every time I hear Barry sing it, I'll replace that scene with Barry's "Unchained Melody" music video images of our troops coming home to their loved ones who missed them so much while they have been away doing their duty for our country. Thanks so much guys for defending our freedom!!!!
The bottom line....I've never been one for covers, but this one is a winner with me. If you know Manilow, you know he loves to sing a song with a story, and these songs fit his style perfectly.
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Summary: Flat boredom .
Comment: As is often the case with this style of music ( elevator , hospital lounges , dentist's offices muzak ), this is an unfailingly, numbingly pleasant, but unexceptional album that sounds appealing enough when it's on but isn't compelling enough to get excited about.
This is the sort of album that is almost anaesthetic, you put it on while peeling potatoes or folding the laundry - in fact, best not to put it on at all.
Absolutely safe , lazy , dull , boring , cheesy and fishy...nothing fresh or new.
Flat boredom.
In the same league of the latest albums by Rod Stewart , Selline Dion , Kenny G. , Bette Midler , Carly Simon...you know what I am talking about....
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Summary: Well Done CD
Comment: I too like many of the reviewers were not born when these songs came out.But given that they have all been played over the years on the radio I'm familiar with them. Barry has done a great job with these songs especially his version of Love is a many splendid thing. A hard song to sing he does an excellent job. My least favorite one was an original Elvis song. Never was an Elvis fan. A Recommended Buy.
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Summary: An unworthy effort
Comment: Manilow is obviously sincere in his attempt to resurrect these wonderful old songs. He probably remembers many of them with fondness (as I do) and wants to reinterpret them for a new generation. The goal is laudable. Trouble is, he's not up to the task. His limited vocal range and off-key singing are more often than not embarrassing and at best merely passable. The too-lush production is inappropriate for most of the tunes, adding to the blandness of the vocals. In every case, the original version is better. In spite of its hefty sales and over-hyped promotion, this album is destined to be quickly forgotten.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Clive Davis's ear earns him more accolades than most of his talents' vocal chords. Now it's time to give it up for his enterprising instincts. The Greatest Songs of the Fifties arrives on the heels of another of the famous producer's backward-looking projects, the ubiquitous, uber-successful Great American Songbook series by Rod Stewart. The short story: same vibe, different era. With songs like "All I Have to Do Is Dream," "Venus," and "Unchained Melody" (first recorded in the '50s but best known for its '60s Righteous Brothers rendition), Manilow sidesteps the stuff that rocked the sock hops in favor of cheek-to-cheek selections--the better to remind longtime fans of his nostalgia-steeped '70s hits. Overall, the approach works, especially when the bona fide '50s legend Phyllis McGuire steps in to heat up the "Teach Me Tonight/Sincerely" medley, and Manilow swings across genres to lovingly tackle Dinah Washington's "What a Diff'rence a Day Made." Vocally, a warm haze covers these tracks; whether it's there to evoke fuzzier times or to mask a voice that's gone slightly south is unclear. What couldn't be more crystal, though, is Manilow and Davis's commitment to first-class, sophisticated record-making. --Tammy La Gorce
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