Jack Jones - Where Love Has Gone / My Kind of Town
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Artist: Jack JonesEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-11-01
Music Label: Mca UK
Soundtracks:
- Where Love Has Gone
- Willow Weep for Me
- It Never Entered My Mind
- Here's That Rainy Day
- Lush Life
- To Love and Be Loved
- People
- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
- What's New?
- The Lorelei
- Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
- By Myself
- My Kind of Town
- Somewhere Along the Way
- More
- The Race Is On
- I Can't Believe I'm Losing You
- Travellin' On
- The One I Love
- Yes, I Can
- I'm All Smiles
- I Must Know
- Time After Time
- King of the Road
Free Music Notes for Where Love Has Gone / My Kind of Town
Free Music Review: The master of many styles and moods
Hit: 5 Stars
I consider the first half of this twofer, Where Love Has Gone, to be one of the most breathtakingly beautiful albums I know. It's essentially a young man's Only the Lonely, featuring many of the same songs that Sinatra covered for his classic concept LPs (Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry, Here's That Rainy Day, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, To Love And Be Loved, It Never Entered My Mind, Willow Weep For Me, What's New?). In contrast to Frank's view of lost love, Jones' interpretations are more wistful than suicidal (after all, he was only 26 at the time), and his voice projects so much beauty into the most subtle, contemplative thoughts and the most anguished declarations. The soaring notes he reaches in Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry, Lorelei, and Here's That Rainy Day nearly bring tears to my eyes, for their sheer emotional power. Jones also performs a masterful cover here of Lush Life, known for its wandering, evolving melody that most pop singers only wish they could sing. While I'm aware that some dismiss Jones for recording these titles - most of them synonymous with Sinatra and other legends - I can say without hesitation that Jones' renditions have become my favorites, due to the sensitivity in his vocals, and for how he leaves me feeling that I know and care about him personally through his expressions of sadness.
The eight most sensitive, string-based selections for Where Love Has Gone were arranged by Pete King (and recorded in ONE day!). In listening to them, it's easy to understand how King was the man who heard young Jones perform live and recommended him to Kapp - his reverence for Jack's voice is so apparent, with his arrangements framing it like a rare jewel.
Special mention must be made of the way Jones' producers bookended this collection. The album begins with an original Jimmy Van Heusen/Sammy Cahn movie theme, Where Love Has Gone. And then, after Jones has carried us through this and so many other emotional highs, he settles himself (and us) into the jazzy closing tune, By Myself. Here's young Jack, with his whole life ahead of him, accepting his losses and the unknown that's ahead. He's feeling optimistic, and so are we, happy for this whole journey we've experienced.
My Kind of Town, by contrast, has no single theme or concept. It consists of songs compiled from different sessions recorded between 1962 and 1965 (a few lovely ballads, but predominantly fun and upbeat titles), and it was a huge commercial hit for Jones. My Kind of Town and Yes I Can feature personalized lyrics and rhythms written especially for Jack, clearly displaying his own identity rather than Frank's or Sammy's. Jones eventually became famous for some of My Kind Of Town's album cuts: More, Somewhere Along the Way, I Can't Believe I'm Losing You, and the positively irresistible I Must Know. Country music also joins in this mix. Here is where The Race Is On first appeared, featuring Jones' memorable, one-man, multi-track harmony. Travellin' On is an even more impressive surprise, as the slow introductory verse of this old, old cowboy tune transitions into a rousing big band number. And Jones adds considerable class to Roger Miller's King of the Road, the closing number to this very enjoyable CD.
Now, if I had been the one assigning albums for these twofer collections, I would've paired Where Love Has Gone with Jones' other reflective masterpiece, Jack Jones Sings, and My Kind of Town with his other mixed bag of styles and genres, For the 'In' Crowd. But, hey, I'm just a clueless American fan, and obviously MCA-UK knows better. ;-)
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