Thanks For The Memory...Great American Songbook IV

Tracks:

I've Got a Crush on You - featuring Diana Ross
I Wish You Love - featuring Chris Botti
You Send Me - featuring Chaka Khan
Long Ago and Far Away
Makin' Whoopee- featuring Elton John
My One and Only Love
Taking a Chance on Love
My Funny Valentine
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
Nevertheless - featuring Dave Koz
Blue Skies
Let's Fall in Love - featuring George Benson
Thanks for the Memory

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Accuse Rod Stewart of what you like--through the years he's been called a philanderer, a has-been, a pageant-ish progenitor of puff rock--but as he has consistently proved with his Great American Songbook series, the concept of dignity is not lost on him. There is a time, after all, for leaping across stages in leopard-print spandex while shamelessly parading an unparalleled gift for scratchy-voiced seduction, and he is past it. Past his prime is another thing. On this fourth installation of the Clive Davis-produced series, Stewart again makes excellent use of his rolodex: Diana Ross, whose affection for this material comes through as convincingly as her spike-haired partner's, cuddles up for opener "I've Got a Crush On You," Chaka Khan packs her bags but not her mighty vocals for "You Send Me," and Sir Elton shelves the recent balladeer's instincts for a rip-roaring run through "Makin' Whoopee." A handful of marquee instrumentalists also returned Rod's calls-- Dave Koz blows sax on "Nevertheless," and trumpeters Chris Botti and Roy Hargrove turn up the heat on "I Wish You Love" and "My One and Only Love" respectively. As on earlier discs, though, it's when Rod rules the spotlight alone that he can be most compelling: Cue up "My Funny Valentine" in the right frame of mind and you may never need to hear it sung by another. Retiring the satin shirts in favor of this material was the smartest move Stewart ever made. --Tammy La Gorce

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Customer Reviews:

Spare the Rod.......2007-07-09

Great listening. Not the smoothest voice, but a real stylist. And I want his HAIR

Rod Stewart: Songbook IV.......2007-07-04

We have purchased all four of the songbook CD's, and enjoy all equally. This is a nice and easy listen, for relaxing times. Stewart seems to feel the moods of the songs, and performs them with style. My wife plays them at her restaurant and gets many good compliments also.

raves for rod.......2007-06-27

as always rod is fabulous. anything he does he does beautifully.it is a great album for those of us who appreciate theseb classics.

Thanks For The Memory...The Great American Songbook IV.......2007-05-15

Wonderful album of Rod Stewart! Fast shipping and great customer service.

Vibrating, exciting and mesmerizing recordings!.......2007-04-09

Rod Stewart, apart to be a living legend on stages through over three decades and a half, , is a singer who has known to reinvent himself over and over. This successful idea, so desired for many others singers have found in his original voice, the perfect instrument to bring us back to all these vanished memories,
Unforgettable melodies that found the widest resonance in the decade of the forties, fifties and sixties.

Supported by a fabulous big leaguer musical team, Stewart has know to sharp every song he sung, with adequate emotion, accuracy and commitment. The result of this initial experiment has been materialized until this date in four extraordinary registers.

In what concerns this special album the result has been particularly gratifying. The achieved maturity has been reached until the last consequences. He is a crooner of a huge charisma and extraordinary melodic vein, reason which this CD has figured so many weeks in enviable ranking sellers as one the most fortunate since its release the last year.

Under any circumstance you should miss this fabulous compilation, that somehow complements decades that will never get back but that certainly feed and flamed the romantic imagination and were motives of special and pleasant attention for many couples around the world that nowadays are grandfathers or even great grand fathers.

Thanks for the Memory...Great American Songbook IV

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Thanks for the Memory...Great American Songbook IV

Manufacturer: Sony/BMG
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000B9UHUI
Release Date: 2005-10-18

Album Description

Rod's back with another chaper in the American songbook. This time he has teamed up with Diana Ross for 'I've Got a Crush on You', Chaka Khan on 'My One and Only Love' and Elton John on the classic 'I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm'. Also included are the timeless classic's'My Funny Valentine', 'Makin' Whoopee', 'Let's Fall in Love' and the tilte track 'Thanks for the Memory'. J Records. 2005.

Thanks For The Memory... The Great American Songbook Volume IV

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Thanks For The Memory... The Great American Songbook Volume IV
Rod Stewart
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000LZL422

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