Loads of Love [Import] [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered]

Editorial Reviews
Album Details
Japanese version 24 bit digitally remastered in a LP style sleeve cover.

Tracks:

Wild Is Love
Loads Of Love
My Future Just Passed
There's A Boat That's Leavin' Soon For New York
Ten Cents A Dance
Only The Lonely
The Second Time Around
Do It Again
It's Love
That's No Joke
Love For Sale
Who Am I
On The Street Where You Live
The Great City
That Old Black Magic
Mack The Knife
Come Dance With Me
Let Me Love You
After You've Gone
Wouldn't It Be Loverly
Go Away Little Boy
I'm In The Mood For Love
The Good Life
Wee Small Hours

Customer Reviews:

Loads of Fun!.......2001-04-03

I must confess: I much prefer the early Shirley Horn to the present-day Shirley Horn. I think that constraints and prescriptions and proscriptions do their part in allowing an artist to create excellent work. And in spite of what many listeners and reviewers have thought of this early-60s album, Horn, here, is in peak form, in command, and in great voice.

The first song, "Wild Is Love" is very 60s, and you'll dig those crazy horns blowing...you'll almost want to do The Twist as you think of "The Dating Game."

There are nods to several standards, one of which is to Gershwin on "There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York." "Great City" is also fun, and will put you in the frame of mind of New York, the greatest city, in its glory days; Horn's articulation and timing see to that...

The strangest song on here is probably "Mack the Knife," so different from Ella's versions and Louis Armstrong's versions...Horn swings this song in typcial, restrained Horn fashion...but it's the lyrics that puzzle somewhat...thrown in here, among the familiar Lucy Brown, Slooky Tawdry, and Lotte Lenya, is Sister Sadie...whoever she is...but this song is quite fun and you'll dig Horn's spin on it...

The balads are quite beautiful here..."The Second Time Around," "Do It Again," and "The Good Life" are all possessed by Horn's now-famous loving and sophisticated restaint...this album isn't even enough solely for after-hours listening, but you can certainly program in the songs you like and listen to this collection that way...

If you like Horn, or like jazz, I think you'll really like this collection.

Good Listening!

--dan

Not your standard Shirley Horn record, but still great.......2000-10-05

According to the liner notes, Shirley herself doesn't think much of these recordings, but I love them. These are VERY different from any other Horn records I have heard. Either she hadn't settled into her own style yet, or, more likely, the producers wouldn't let her do her own thing. (They wouldn't even let her play piano, according to the liner notes.) She never digs in emotionally to the extent that she does on later albums, and there are a few tracks that should have stayed in the vault. BUT! That's OK, because some of this stuff swings like MAD, and its a particular breed of swing that Shirley never bothered with again, even though she could obviously tear it up.

If you're looking for your first Shirley Horn record, try my favorite: Live at Vine Street: I Thought About You. Then check this one out.

An Atypical Shirley Horn with Orchestra but Chemistry Failed.......2000-07-09