Greatest Love Songs

However there are many highlights ~ "A SONG FOR YOU", a Leon Russell song, taps once again Cocker's ability into the world of gospel ~ "SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD", opening with Deric Dyer on saxophone, this Elton John song has grit and plenty of it ~ "OUT OF THE BLUE", as we reach into our hearts, this tune pours all the love one has for each other, heartfelt lyrics flow from the Cocker interpretation.

Hip-O Records, Bill Levenson (producer), Pat Lawrence & Dana Smart (executive producers) and the musicians who backed and performed with Joe Cocker...this album is truly a love of people, brought to us through music, gotta love it!

Tracks:

It's Not Unusual
With These Hands
My Foolish Heart
Hello Young Lovers
When I Fall In Love
(It Looks Like) I'll Never Fall In Love Again
I'm Coming Home
Only A Fool Breaks His Own Heart
Why Can't I Cry
Help Yourself
Let It Be Me
Love Me Tonight
Let There Be Love
Without Love (There Is Nothing)
I (Who Have Nothing)
Can't Stop Loving You
Till

Customer Reviews:

I Love Tom Jones.......2007-05-13

Tom Jones is the man, he was back in the old days and he still is today.
He has a beautiful voice and I like to listen to him at least 3 times a week.

Greatest Love Songs Tom Jones.......2006-02-23

A fantastic recording! There is not a more romantic voice in the world and this recording shows the master at his best.He has the ability to have every person feel he is singing just to them in person and the CD has the same affect. I have no favorite track. Love th entire thing. Thank you, Tom.

"legendary crooner weaves his spell of love".......2003-01-28

Hip-O Records presents the power and presence of Tom Jones, with his latest album "Greatest Love Songs", as we hear the legendary crooner weave his spell with some classic love songs. This son of a Welsh coal miner came up the hard way, with his very own television show in the late '60s. Tom sets the mood with emotion that his husky voice conveys with each articulate lyric.

Just think, seventeen selections focusing on one of his big hits "IT'S NOT UNUSUAL", from the 1965 self titled album...where were you when you first heard this one...can you believe this was banned by the BBC. Another favorite is "(IT LOOKS LIKE)I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN", how many of us have felt that way once or twice in our lives, Tom gives a haunting rendition that stays with you. A very big hit for Eddie Fisher was "WITH THESE HANDS", and "I'll never let you go and I will sing to you", Tom gives one of his best performances. With "HELLO YOUNG LOVERS", he swings lightly with a Nelson Riddle arrangement. This Victor Young composition"WHEN I FALL IN LOVE", is the classic Nat "King" Cole hit from a long running career of standards that made us feel every word. Just "HELP YOURSELF", to my lips and my arms, then let's really start to live...this says it all. Love is the thing that the whole wide world needs plenty of "WITHOUT LOVE(THERE IS NOTHING)", words to live by, specially in these trying times. You are my reason to live, all I own I would give as Tom sings "TILL", from the Roger Williams Songbook, as we look back to the '50s...Mr. Jones sings this from the heart, just in time for Valentines Day.

My own personal stand outs are "MY FOOLISH HEART", another Victor Young composition with lyrics from Ned Washington, the night is like a lovely tune, beware my foolish heart...there's a line between love and fascination...the words grab you immediately, and Tom carefully sets the stage for each syllable. One can reach into the Tom Jones bag of hits and close this review with "LOVE ME TONIGHT", lyrics rise like smoke in the night with "please let my stay, don't send me away, hold me now my heart is breaking, something is burning inside and cannot be denied"...Tom ends this on a high note and holds the same for almost 15 seconds...it could have been longer, gotta love it!

Hip-O has outdone itself with the help of some talented people Bill Levenson (producer), Pat Lawrence & Dana Smart (executive producers), Ellen Fitton (mastered by)...and of course the man who stole our hearts and gave so much of himself...TOM JONES!

Tracks:

Time In A Bottle
Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)
Salon And Saloon
Alabama Rain
Dreamin' Again
It Doesn't Have To Be That Way
I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song
Lover's Cross
Thursday
These Dreams
A Long Time Ago
Photographs And Memories

Customer Reviews:

love.......2007-02-15

This is a delightful item that is sure to go right to the heart.

A MAN OF MANY TALENTS.......2005-09-25

This CD offers some of Jim's greatest love songs. But, why purchase a CD that only limits Jim's talent. His best (CD's) to date is The 50th Anniversary Collection, The Definitive Collection. And if it is ever released on CD The Faces I've Been album would be the icing in any Croce collection. By the way for the record. Jim Croce did not die in a helicopter crash. It was a small plane. Info is from Jim's DVD Have You Heard Jim Croce Live.

wilman i support u.......2004-09-15

Wilma i feel the same way as u do, I love Jim too but he gets too little attention since he died. Until now, his music remains one of my best favorites!!

On September 20, 1973 : Jim Croce dies at the age of 30........2003-10-13

Just wanted Wilma to know.

Respect.......2001-05-19

I love Jim Croce,But I fill like he never gets the respect now that he got back then. He died the same way the great Stevie Ray Vaughan did, They died in a heliocopter crash,But to me,when croce died, almost everybody forgot about him. I fill like he never got any monuments dedicated to him and what he did in his life.I know that I am probably babbling over nothing,but it just that I love him and his music that changed my life forever.I don't even know how old he was when he died,I don't even know where his heliocopter crashed at or what year!

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Greatest Love Songs by Will Downing
Closer To You I Love It !!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome!!!
Will Downing
WILL I'LL GIVE "G.L.S" A 4 1/2 STARS, HIS' VOICE MAKES LOVE 2 MY EARDRUMS (Luther Vandross TALENTED!!)

Greatest Love Songs
Will Downing
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Release Date: 2002-01-15

Tracks:

Free
Where Is The Love? - Mica Paris and Will Downing
Closer To You
Wishing On A Star
I'll Wait
Giving My All To You
I Try
I Go Crazy
Lover's Paradise
Sorry, I
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All About You
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If She Knew
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Only A Moment Away

Customer Reviews:

Greatest Love Songs by Will Downing.......2006-11-02

This CD is great. I just love Will. The duets are wonderful. Nothing but love for this CD.

Closer To You I Love It !!!!!!!!!!!! .......2006-06-19

When I came on amazon.com to listen some of Will Downing's songs and when I came across Closer To You oh boy! Talk about to get my groove on! Yes, this is the song to make a baby and stay in the house for about a week!!!!! LOL LOL LOL

Awesome!!!.......2006-06-05

This CD was great. You can play the whole thing straight through without having to skip any songs. Nowadays that rarely is the case.

I highly recommend this CD to anyone who likes quality music. It is great for a night of intimacy with your favorite woman.

Will Downing.......2005-09-21

He has such a nice voice but its lost in this CD because most the songs are borrowed songs perfomed by other artist

WILL I'LL GIVE "G.L.S" A 4 1/2 STARS, HIS' VOICE MAKES LOVE 2 MY EARDRUMS (Luther Vandross TALENTED!!).......2005-07-02

WILLS' VOICE 2 ME SIMILAR 2 LUTHER VANDROSS & JAHIEMS', PLEASANTLY DEEP BUT SOOTHING! *(I MUST WRITE R.I.P TO LUTHER VANDROSS, "I LOVE YOU BABY SEE YOU IN HEAVEN")*... MY FAVORITE SONGS OFF "Greatest Love Songs" WERE 1,2,4,5,7,8,10 & 15. IT WAS A RAINY NIGHT & I WAS LISTENING 2 "THE QUIET STORM" ON THE RADIO... THEN I HEARD A SEXY MALE VOICE SINGING "WISHING ON A STAR" I SAID THAT'S WILL DOWNING!! AFTER THAT I HAD 2 HAVE THIS ALBUM!! WILL DOWNING CAN STAND IN THE LIGHT WITH LUTHER, FREDDIE OR KEITH WASHINGTON! WILL DIDN'T TRY 2 SING THOSE RENEWED SONGS LIKE THE ORIGINALS, HE ADDED HIS' OWN FLAVOR 2 THEM (& IT WAS LOVELY)!!!!
2 ME WILL DID A SUPERB JOB WITH REMAKING "WISHING ON A STAR", JUST AS LUTHER DID WITH ROBERTAS' "KILLING ME SOFTLY"!! (THEY DIDN'T LET ME DOWN) *I FEEL THAT IF YOU DIDN'T LIKE WILL DOWNINGS' "Greatest Love Songs" THEN YOU MUST NOT LIKE R&B OR JAZZ AT ALL!? WILL IS TOTAL COMPETITION WATCH OUT!!!! ***LISTEN IF YOU & YOUR LOVER WANT 2 SET THE MOOD... THEN PUT IN "Greatest Love Songs" ON NUMBERS 1,2,4,5,7 & 8 & I ASURE YOU WHEN HE/SHE LOOKS INTO YOUR EYES "THEY'LL GO CRAZY"!!!! (A SWEET SERENADE)

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For Water Aerobics, a Top-Ten CD
Greatest March Sampling Out There!
For the Lover of Marches
Blood Pumping Music
Blood Pumping Music

Marches: Greatest Hits

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Release Date: 1994-12-06

Tracks:

Various: The Prince of Denmark's March
Various: March from The Anna Magdalena Notebook
Various: March from Cantata No. 207
Various: See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes March from Judus Maccabaeus
Various: Turkish March from The Ruins of Athens, Op. 113, No. 4
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Various: Procession of the Nobles from Mlada Suite
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Various: Grand March from Aida
Various: The Washington Post March
Various: National Emblem March
Various: The Liberty Bell
Various: Colonel Bogey March
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Various: Under the Double Eagle
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Customer Reviews:

For Water Aerobics, a Top-Ten CD.......2005-07-30

I provide music for water aerobics classes. The class members are typically retirees, and like Classical music, yet until this CD the only Classical music with a beat distinctive and steady enough for water aerobics that I'd found was on the "Hooked on Classics" series. Thus, for water aerobics, this is a find.

Also contributing to this CD's popularity for water aerobics are that: (1) many of the songs are upbeat, and (2) "new stereo" recordings (in contrast to my recordings of Sousa marches that were played by Sousa himself; he died in the 1930s.)

In Summary, were you to buy just ten CDs for water aerobics classes, this would be one of them.

Greatest March Sampling Out There!.......2004-04-05

Knowing very little about classical music, I bought several march compilations a few years back, in hopes that I could develop at least a fanboy level of appreciation. Of the compilations I picked up, this is the one that showed me the most diverse sampling of marches. If you want to become familiar with the march genre, this collection runs away with the blue ribbon, with no contendors close behind. The other compilations I came across focused strictly on the American military marches; they were all very good, but this compilation dishes up a diverse menu, from Ludwig Von Beethoven to John Williams.

This CD has a special place in my collection since it turned me on to John Philip Sousa, who has become one of my favorite composers ever. The Sousa selections on this CD are performed by The Incredible Columbia All-Star Band. I enjoyed these tunes immensely enough to buy some Sousa compilations, and found that while the All-Star Band's take on Sousa tunes is very good, I greatly prefer the releases by The United States Marine Band. The Sousa tunes on this CD are a bit rushed for my taste, while The United States Marine Band's delivery seems more pronounced and evenly paced.

My personal favorite track is Kenneth Alford's "Colonel Bogey" performed by John Williams and The Boston Pops Orchestra. They take Alford's memorable placid march, and shape it into a powerful storm-of-an-orchestral march. Absent are the keyboards prevalent in many renditions of Colonel Bogey, but beautifully replaced with a dynamic orchestra.

It's the variety of marches, however, that steal the show, especially if you are a novice like I am, and want to find out which era of marches is your cup of tea. You get a wide range, from Hector Berlioz's Racoczy March from "Damnation of Faust," to Edwin Bagley's "National Emblem March," to Victor Herbert's "March of the Toys," all the way up to the present day with John William's "The Raider's March" from "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

I am still getting my feet wet learning about marches, and this compilation has given me a great head start. No doubt I'll cringe one day if I read this clumsy description of Sousa and Alford tunes, but for the time being, I am having great fun discovering a whole new school of music. This CD is a great starting point if you want to become familiar with marches.

Just one other comment that will only further display my amateur level of classical music appreciation, but I've just got to say it: JOHN PHILIP SOUSA ROCKS!!! There are very few pieces that sound as happy and uplifting as a Sousa march. I proudly salute Mr. Sousa!

For the Lover of Marches.......2002-05-16

This is the best march music CD I have in my collection. It covers a range from Beethoven's "Turkish March" (track 5 and my favorite of the CD) to Sousa. The weakness of the CD comes from the Incredible Columbia All-Star Band tracks. They do a few Sousa marches and the difference between them and the Boston Pops is very noticable. But that's just a minor complaint and certainly nothing to keep you from buying and enjoying this CD.

Blood Pumping Music.......2001-01-30

This CD took me back many years. It has great music that will get your blood pumping. It is a great selection of music and should be in anyones CD collection!!

Blood Pumping Music.......2001-01-30

This CD is a great CD. It includes some the worlds most famous marches with a great recording. I grew up in marching bands in East Texas and loved marches, and this CD gets my blood pumping and takes me back to the old days. If you love great music and marches, this is a sure buy!!!!

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