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Media Type: CD
Artist: WILLIAMS,DENIECE
Title: GONNA TAKE A MIRACLE-BEST OF
Street Release Date: 03/12/1996
Domestic
Genre: SOUL/R & B

Track Listing

1. Free 5:57
2. I found love 3:37
3. Cause you love me, baby 4:07
4. That's what friends are for 4:26
5. God is amazing 4:00
6. Baby, baby, my love's all for you 4:10
7. When love comes calling 3:27
8. If you don't believe 7:59
9. Silly 5:57
10. It's gonna take a miracle 4:10
11. Waiting 4:29
12. Do what you feel 4:24
13. I'm so proud 3:55
14. Too much, too little, too late (duet with Johnny Mathis) 2:59
15. Black butterfly 4:25
16. Let's hear it from the boy 4:20

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3729 in Music
• Brand: WILLIAMS,DENIECE
• Released on: 1996-03-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

The Best of Deniece Williams: Gonna Take a Miracle
For those who have never heard of Deniece Williams, this is an excellent compilation disc to initiate you to her heavenly voice. It's a great disc that covers her secular music career as well as adding her bone chillingly wonderful gospel song, GOD IS AMAZING.

I was happy that that particular song was included because to her fans, it was the perfect way for her to tell her fans that her calling & future in music would be in the gospel realm. I also appreciated the inclusion of the magnificent BLACK BUTTERFLY - as a child, our choir always sang this song during celebrations for Martin Luther King Day so it holds a special place in my heart.

Again for those who've never heard any music from this true songbird, this is an excellent compilation to introduce you to her amazing voice. And to fans, it's an excellent addition to your collection.

Underappreciated brilliance
One can't really complain about any CD that includes both "Free" and "Black Butterfly", but...where's "You're All That Matters"? This CD also contains a few more gospel songs than necessary (why not release a second best-of containing only Ms. Williams'gospel music?), but overall, it is well worth buying. (One more complaint, though: It would have been cool to include "Never Say Never". There; I said it.)

Good Collection, Great Voice
Deniece Williams always had that voice that lifted you a little higher- soft, sweet, happy and heartbreaking. This is a decent collection of her best. The biggest hits are here: the dreamy brilliance of FREE (which she co-wrote), the blockbuster TOO MUCH, TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE (duetting with Johnny Mathis), the Thom Bell produced classics SILLY and IT'S GONNA TAKE A MIRACLE, and finally, the "Footloose" hit, LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE BOY.

Their also several minor hits which, if the casual listener is not familiar with them, may be a pleasant surprise: the best being up-tempo tracks like I FOUND LOVE, BABY MY LOVE'S ALL FOR YOU and WHEN LOVE COMES CALLING. There's also the inspirational ballad BLACK BUTTERFLY, which over the years has gained more prominence as one of Niecy's best.

The collection is not perfect: chronologically, this is all over the place, with early hits like TOO MUCH near the end of the CD, and there are a couple of notable omissions (1986's R&B Top 10 hit NEVER SAY NEVER is missing, as is WHAT TWO CAN DO, a Top 20 hit from 1981, and her 1988 album AS GOOD AS IT GETS is not represented, either), but overall this is a decent overview of one the unsung talents of a prime era in R&B music...