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Am I Not Your Girl?
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Track Listing
- Why Don't You Do Right?
- Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
- Secret Love
- Black Coffee
- Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home
- Don't Cry For Me Argentina
- I Want To Be Loved By You
- Gloomy Sunday
- Love Letters
- How Insensitive
- Scarlet Ribbons
- Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Inst.)
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #83767 in Music
- Released on: 1992-09-22
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
Disappointing
Good singer, great songs -- so what went wrong? Some of the cuts are embarrassingly overproduced, and her singing here is just too thin to compete or be of much interest. If you go big band, you'd better go big voice too. After a listen, I put on a CD of Lena Horne singing Stormy Weather, just to remind myself how it's supposed to be.
She Is Definitly My Girl!
I agree with all the raves, she is the best, this CD is a triumph, to be able to dare to do what she really wanted to do in the midst of her most successful commercial stage of her career deserves nothing but praise. One of the best recordings EVER!!!
IF NOT FOR THE BIG BAND CHARTS...
SOME OF WHICH WERE PENNED BY THE HIGHLY UNDER-RATED PATRICK WILLIAMS,
AND PERFORMED TO PERFECTION BY A GREAT ALL-STAR PACK OF MUSICIANS (WHO
IGNORED THE LACKLUSTER SINGER THEY WERE BEING PAID--WELL, I HOPE--TO
ACCOMPANY), I WOULD CERTAINLY NOT HAVE HELD ON TO THIS ALBUM PAST THE
UNCOMFORTABLE FIRST HALF-CHORUS OF THE FIRST SONG.
"The Great American Songbook" is clearly not a genre of music
to mess with unless the singer has the chops to do it justice. Clearly,
Ms. O'Connor--despite all of her other successes--does NOT.
But, hey! if Phil Ramone wanted to produce something that would
bring in some crossover-audience bucks, and didn't care how materialistic
it made him look... why should anyone care?
By the way, the one star was for the skilled arranger(s), the
conductor(Torrie Zito), and the players. I WOULD have given them
five big ones, but didn't want it to look like it was for the mis-
placed and underwhelming skills of Ms. O'Connor.
