Kenny Rankin - Professional Dreamer
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Artist: Kenny RankinEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-03-28
Music Label: Private Music
Soundtracks:
- You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
- The Very Thought Of You
- But Not For Me
- I Fall In Love Too Easily
- More Than You Know
- It Had To Be You
- At Last
- Love Is Here To Stay
- I've Got A Crush On You
- My One And Only Love
- Blame It On My Youth
- How Can I Forget (Song For Margo)
- That's All
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Free Music Review: This is Rather Difficult to Rate!
Hit: 3 Stars
Kenny Rankin was a favorite when I was growing up - Pussywillow Cattails, When Sunny Gets Blue, On and On, Peaceful. I basically identify my taste for music along his style together with Bacharach, the bossanova sound of Brazil until I discovered the Great American Composers. My favorite songs were a handful and most of them are works by these songwriters or simply sang by singers I have admired.
I was surprised to learn years later that he has resurrected and like Rod Stewart, Linda Rondstad, Carly Simon to name a few have recorded standard albums. Kenny Rankin came out with solid numbers that are cornerstones in the Great Songbook Series like "That's All", "The Very Thought of You" and "My One and Only Love" which I think are the best in the album. Even "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" - a piece that I usually I am not fond of came out with an excellent treatment. Then, of course, came the other tracts the likes of "But Not For Me" and "Our Love Is Here To Stay" that somehow clouded the whole album as being too commonplace.
Yes, he improvized and that's the redeeming part of it and somehow I was expecting his voice and style would mature over the years but somehow it didn't. And that's the reason why I said "It's Difficult" as my title because I am caught between a sweet nostalgia and a flat reworking of these classics.
BTW, my CD was personally autographed by Kenny in one of his concerts in Asia where he has a strong following.
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