Anne Murray - All of Me
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Free Music Review: A winning combination of standards and her greatest hits
Hit: 5 Stars
A couple of years ago while on a trip to Nova Scotia my wife and I happened upon the little mining town of Spring Hill. Much to our surprise and delight this little berg turned out to be the hometown of none other than one of the most popular Canadian recording artists of all-time, Anne Murray. And smack dab in the middle of town we came upon the Anne Murray Center. Staffed by local townspeople, the Anne Murray Centre offers visitors a unique opportunity to view an impressive array of awards, photographs, memorabilia as well as audio and visual highlights of Anne Murrays remarkable career. If you are ever in that area I would heartily recommend it! We had seen Anne perform in our area just a few years earlier and were thoroughly impressed with her performance. She is the consummate pro. If you are a big fan like we are you might be wondering just what is the best available collection of the music of this talented lady. In my judgement "All of Me" would easily get the nod.
"All of Me" features 16 of Anne's all-time greatest hits. These are the original Capitol recordings that you would remember from the radio. The fact that they have been digitally remastered will only enhance your enjoyment of memorable tunes like "A Love Song", "Broken Hearted Me", her spirited remake of the Monkees "Daydream Believer" as well as her very first hit record "Snowbird" from all the way back in 1970. Anne Murray would be a fixture on both the pop and country music charts during the entire decade of the 1970's and for much of the 1980's as well. Among the dozen other hit singles included in this collection are "Just Another Woman In Love", "You Won't See Me" and the moving "Can I Have This Dance". And what Anne Murray package would be complete without her memorable 1973 hit "Danny's Song" which as you might recall was written by Kenny Loggins.
Now if that were not enough, Straight Way records has also included a seperate disc containing Anne's interpretation of 15 of the most beloved songs of all-time. I have to say I loved each and every one of them. Enjoy once again brand new versions of perennial favorites like "My Buddy", "As Time Goes By", "Over The Rainbow" and of course "All of Me". When my wife and I saw Anne Murray in concert several years ago she performed a number of standards. Her love for this music was quite apparent and it comes through quite clearly in these recordings.
And so to sum up, I can do nothing less than heartily recommend this 2 disc set. The sound quality is wonderful and the choice of material is superb. Add to that the fact that the price is quite reasonable and what you have here is a terrific collection that is also a great value.
Free Music Review: "31 tracks of pure entertainment ~ Anne Murray"
Hit: 5 Stars
Straight Way and EMI Music present "All Of Me", featuring the latest release from Anne Murray on a deluxe two CD set for fans and music lovers alike...this is a compilation of extremely high quality concentrating on some of the very best from her repertoire and early music of the decades.
Let's take a look at disc one..."AFTER YOU'VE GONE", "ALL OF ME", "AS TIME GOES BY", "DON'T GET AROUND MUCH ANYMORE", "DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME", "I WONDER WHO'S KISSING HIM NOW", "I'LL BE SEEING YOU", "I'M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND WRITE MYSELF A LETTER", "MY BUDDY", "OVER THE RAINBOW", "SMILE", "TWILIGHT TIME", "WE'LL MEET AGAIN", "WHAT'LL I DO", "YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU"...this is an overall blanket to any serious music collection...one gem after another with top notch arrangements, much more than just a toe tapper...each track represents Murray's incredible success in this business of entertainment through song.
Murray's career travels back to the early '70s and continues right up to the present...she has covered every genre from Country, Easy Listening, Contemporary Christian, Folk and Pop Rock...with one of the most recognizable voices and styles in music today...her records and albums have hit the Billboard Charts and sold millions from the very beginning "A LOVE SONG" (1973), "YOU WON'T SEE ME" (1974), "I JUST FALL IN LOVE AGAIN" (1979), "DAYDREAM BELIEVER" (1979), "BROKEN HEARTED ME" (1979), "SHADOWS IN THE MOONLIGHT" (1979), "COULD I HAVE THIS DANCE" (1980), "ANOTHER SLEEPLESS NIGHT" (1981), "A LITTLE GOOD NEWS" (1983), "JUST ANOTHER WOMAN IN LOVE" (1983), "TIME DON'T RUN OUT ON ME" (1984), "NOBODY LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO" (1984), "NOW AND FOREVER (YOU AND ME)" (1986), "SNOWBIRD" (1994), "DANNY'S SONG" (1994), "YOU NEEDED ME" (1994)...and that my friend is the second disc of 16 tracks that distinguished Anne Murray from the rest of the pack...brought her to the forefront and in the stream of the international scene.
Total Time: 2-CD-Set ~ Straight Way 63231 ~ (1/25/2005)
Free Music Review: A Great Collection of Standards, and Then Some!
Hit: 5 Stars
By now (2005) many "old-school" artists have released albums of "standards", those great songs from largely our parents generation. It might be Rod, or Cindi, or Linda, or Carly, or others releasing CD's of these songs, but the fact remains, for as good as these songs are, they are not the songs that made any of these artists stars in the first place.
Now we have Anne Murray releasing a collection of some great standards, but as the appropriatly named CD suggests, she also gives us a disk of her own songs, and reminds us why she became a star in the first place.
Disk 1 includes a great mix of upbeat (Dream a Little Dream of Me, Smile, Over The Rainbow) classics, and the more meloncoly
(After Your Gone, What'll I Do, I'll Be Seeing You), and Anne's golden, velvetly pipes give all of these tracks a fresh vibe.
Disk 2 gives us a great career spanning collection of Anne's best known songs. I never tire of hearing such gems as Snowbird, You Won't See Me, Shawdows In The Moonlight, etc.
However some of her ballads included here are what really allow her to shine. The simple beauty of Could I Have This Dance, and You Needed Me, while made for the romantic in all of us, yeild to songs like A Little Good News (still a VERY revelant song today), Broken Hearted Me, and Time Don't Run Out On Me.
This excellent 2 disk collection is a great way to discover, or re-discover Anne Murray!
Free Music Review: Awesome album, but why the rehash??
Hit: 5 Stars
I would have preferred this cd as a single disc, her previous release "The Best....So Far" blows the second disc away! The song selection and the mastering of that set was so much better than this release as a whole. Is there a clause with her contract with EMI subsid Straight Way that every release under that label must be a double?? Sorry, it seems a little overblown for me. That said, the new material on this album is a bit uneven, but it's not bad. Anne's alto gets better with age and man, is she in the basement on this one. Men who sing in her range wish they had such warmth and control. I know there is a negative attitude right now with singers covering standards, oh, thank you Rod Stewart, but remember, these are standards written to be interpreted by almost any seasoned singer in any genre. Patsy Cline added a county twang to writers as prolific as Irving Berlin and Cole Porter, Anne attempts the same and ends up with a softer country approach. By contrast country-pop singer Ronnie Milsap's "Just For A Thrill" is more fun and truer to the Big Band sound and Ronnie "morphs" to that style, Anne tries to steer these songs to her and the end result is maybe a touch ackward, but at least they are unique.Free Music Review: BRILLIANT
Hit: 5 Stars
This collection of Tin Pan alley favourites is a beautiful tribute from Anne to one of her late friends that recently passed away from cancer. Her vocals are very strong, the arrangements magical and her version of "Over the Rainbow" would rival any other out there. "All of Me" is a great upbeat number, as is the brilliant "After You've Gone". Anne particularly shines on "My Buddy" which is the emotional climax of the album, as well as poignant moments in "What'll I Do" , "Smile" and the tearjerker "I'll be Seeing You Again" . The album ends in great Patsy Cline-type fashion with "We'll meet Again". Any critic who pans this album has got to be deaf. You need to give this album time to realize how great it is. It is the beauty of simplicity. And of course, Anne's greatest hits on disc 2 are still as fresh as the day they were released. Great job, Anne !