Carol Burnett - Carol Burnett Featuring If I Could Write a Song
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Artist: Carol BurnettEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Published: 2004
CD Release Date: 2004-07-13
Music Label: Collector's Choice
Soundtracks:
- If I Could Write A Song
- It's Too Late
- Those Were The Days
- Rainy Days And Mondays
- Who's Sorry Now
- Saturday Morning Confusion
- For All We Know
- Rose Garden
- Try To Remember
- Sunrise, Sunset
- Guess Who/Turn Around, Look At Me
- Love's The Only Game In Town
- You're My Reason
- The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
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Free Music Review: Carol Burnett in laid-back mode
Hit: 5 Stars
Carol Burnett has a fine singing voice, possessing both a distinctive sound and a great Broadway 'belt' when she lets rip. That Broadway 'belt' is subdued in this CD release of her 1972 album IF I COULD WRITE A SONG. Here Carol is presented, for the most part, in laid-back mode. But don't dispair, for Carol still has a voice to enjoy and savor in this relaxed setting. Listener's wishing, however, to experience the thrill of Carol belting out songs with verve and vitality (and volume) from musical shows should check out the excellent CD LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU, which contains Carol's two albums from the early 1960s, CAROL BURNETT REMEMBERS HOW THEY STOPPED THE SHOWS and LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU.
IF I COULD WRITE A SONG was first released on vinyl in 1972 and the arrangements and delivery are typical of the easy-listening, middle-of-the-road albums of that era. Carol offers very easy-on-the-ear covers of chart-topping songs of that period, such as IT'S TOO LATE, RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS, ROSE GARDEN, THOSE WERE THE DAYS and FOR ALL WE KNOW. Even the two show numbers included in this set, TRY TO REMEMBER from THE FANTASTICKS and SUNRISE, SUNSET from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, are songs that require a softer, more mellow delivery, and Carol delivers them well here. SATURDAY MORNING CONFUSION, an amusing song about a family and household on weekends, presents Carol in the persona perhaps more familiar to people from television's long-running THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW, which was almost half-way through its eleven-year run when this album was first released in 1972. There are no surprises in the arrangements of the songs here, but the production values are first-rate.
Three additional songs, LOVE'S THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN, YOU'RE MY REASON and THE CHRISTMAS SONG, recorded around the same time as the original album, have also been included in this CD release as a bonus.
IF I COULD WRITE A SONG is a fine competent effort that all true Burnett fans will want to include in their collection.
This listener hopes for the eventual CD release of other exciting Carol Burnett recording gems, like JULIE AND CAROL AT CARNEGIE HALL, JULIE AND CAROL AT LINCOLN CENTRE (both, of course, with her chum Julie Andrews) and TOGETHER AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME with Martha Raye - all, at the time of this review, scandalously gathering dust in the vaults of recording companies.
Carol Burnett Featuring If I Could Write a Song Poster
Columbia released this Carol Burnett album in 1971, right at the height of her popularity, and it reveals that, along with her obvious comedic gifts, she also had a great voice and an ear for good material (in other words, she was and is disgustingly talented). We?ve added three bonus tracks and new liner notes to the original release?if you?re a fan (and who isn?t?), you?re in for a treat!Unlike her earlier albums, Carol Burnett's If I Could Write a Song was recorded at the peak of her television fame, and as such it mostly eschews her Broadway background in favor of a contemporary pop-country flavor. (Even the two showtunes, "Try to Remember" and "Sunrise, Sunset," are '70s-ified.) It's mostly fluff; the songs get better with her covers of Carole King ("It's Too Late") and the Carpenters ("Rainy Days and Mondays," "For All We Know") and Burnett delivers them well, but there's not really a compelling reason to listen to these instead of the originals. Three bonus tracks fill out the 45-minute CD, and they're cut from the same cloth, although John Williams and Alan and Marilyn Bergman's "Love's the Only Game in Town" provides a welcome opportunity for Burnett to let her big voice ring. --David Horiuchi
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