Karen Akers - Simply Styne
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Artist: Karen AkersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-01
Music Label: Drg
Soundtracks:
- Three Coins In the Fountain
- Music That Makes Me Dance/Just In Time
- Time After Time
- It's Been a Long Long Time
- I Fall In Love Too Easily
- Medley: Let Me Entertain You/ You Gotta Get a Gimmick
- Some People
- Long Before I Knew You
- I've Heard That Song Before/ I Don't Want To Walk Without You, Baby / Five Minutes More/ I'll Walk Alone/ I've Heard That Song Before (Reprise)
- If (You Hadn't But You Did)
- Ten Thousand Four Hundred Thiry Two Sheep
- My Own Morning
- Who Are Your Now?
- The Party's Over, Part 1/Killing Time/Absent-Minded Me
- Winter Was Warm/the Party's Over, Part 2/How Could I Know ?
- Medley: Make Someone Happy/ Music That Makes Me Dance
Free Music Notes for Simply Styne
Free Music Review: A FLAWED CONCEPT DONE BY A GREAT SINGER
Hit: 3 Stars
Karen Akers' new CD is something of a mixed bag. Rather than simply glorying in the gorgeous music of Julie Styne, it's muddled with a vain attempt at a concept album that illustrates, murkily, the life of and loves of a saloon singer. Originally done at the Oak Room in NYC, noted critic Stephen Holden calls the CD (in the liner notes) a "cabaret answer to Scenes from a Marriage." In this regard it is not entirely successful, so our advice is skip the concept and simply enjoy the songs. From the Oscar-winning "Three Coins in the Fountain" to the haunting "Who Are You Now?," from standards like "Time After Time" and "I've Heard that Song Before" to relative obscure songs like "My Own Morning" and "Ten Thousand Four Hundred Thirty Two Sheep," the lushness and expanse of Styne's talent is wonderful. Akers' voice is aging well, with some of the songs stylistically a bit bizarre in keeping with her idiosyncratic talent and the "concept" idea. Fans of Akers and cabaret will have a ball with this CD; others may have to tread a bit more carefully around its eccentricities.
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