Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. As Time Goes By (From Casablanca)
2. Secret Love (From Calamity Jane
3. Unchained Melody (From 'Unchained' And 'Ghost')
4. Can You Feel The Love Tonight (From The Lion King)
5. The Way You Look Tonight (From Swing Time)
6. Love With The Proper Stranger (From Love With The Proper Stranger)
7. Puttin' On The Ritz (From Pattin' On The Ritz)
8. When You Wish Upon A Star (From Pinocchio)
9. The Windmills Of Your Mind (From The Thomas Crown Affair)
10. Ebb Tide (From Sweet Bird Of Youth)

Disc 2:

1. True Love (From High Society)
2. My Heart Will Go On (From Titanic)
3. The Look Of Love (From Casino Royale)
4. In The Still Of The Night (From Rosalie)
5. Moon River (From Breakfast At Tiffany)
6. Ruby (From Ruby Gentry)
7. Suite Sinatra: I've Got You Under My Skin (From Born To Dance)/One For My Baby (From Sky's The...
8. And I Love Her (From Hard Day's Night)
9. Can't Help Falling In Love (From Blue Hawauu
10. As Time Goes By (Reprise)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44289 in Music
• Released on: 1998-10-27
• Number of discs: 2

Amazon.com
Don't look for "Kentucky Woman"- or "America"-level energy in As Time Goes By, Neil Diamond's double-disc collection of movie themes. These tracks are much more orchestrated (conducted by soundtrack legend Elmer Bernstein, even), and although they're just as emotive, they're ultimately too smooth for most of us. It's an interesting mix of old and new--songs range from "Moon River" to a surprisingly effective "My Heart Will Go On"; there's even a Sinatra medley. Diamond is certainly in top form (just not the form some of us wish he was still in), and Bernstein's music is effective. The real flaw is the pacing--seemingly upbeat numbers just never seem to take off. "And I Love Her," "Puttin' On the Ritz," and "True Love" beg for the jazz singer we once knew. Does every diamond in the rough eventually get polished? Suppose so... --Jason Verlinde

People
Hardcore Diamond fans will love this album. The same can't be said of hardcore fans of great film music.

Customer Reviews

Neil Diamond "As Time Goes By: The Movie Album
His voice is as gorgeous as always, but the tempo drags on nearly every song. Some things should just be left to Sinatra ...

Worst Diamond album of all time.
It is close between "Up on the Roof" and this thing. "The Movie Album "just plain stinks. I sense Neil had this one forced on him by the record company.

Rip-off
I'm not going to critique the music, that's totally subjective. I happen to like about 8 of the songs a lot and the others are so-so. Just my opinion, others will differ. In general, I like Neil Diamond's music a lot. Prospective buyers should know, however, that the price of this 33 minutes-per-CD set is a rip-off. That's right, there's only a total of 66 minutes of music, and therefore, no excuse to put the music on 2 CDs and charge a double-CD price. Columbia Records was obviously out to fool the brick-and-mortar buyer who hadn't read online reviews.