Michael Crawford - Touch of Music in the Night
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Artist: Michael CrawfordEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-09-28
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- The Power Of Love
- With Your Hand Upon My Heart
- If You Could See Me Now
- Stormy Weather
- It Goes Like It Goes
- She Used To Be Mine
- Music Of The Night
- Serenade In Blue
- Speak Low
- Since You Stayed Here
- One Of My Best Friends
- Papa, Can You Hear Me?/A Piece Of Sky
Free Music Notes for Touch of Music in the Night
Free Music Review: ..."The Whispers in the Morning..."
Hit: 4 Stars
So begins the breathy rendition of the first song of Michael Crawford's 1993 release--a remake of the mid-1980s original version of "The Power of Love" by the late Laura Branigan. Crawford's sensuous delivery and the accompaniment of bagpipes paint a vivid picture. His vibrato goes right through a listener, and I am often in any position but a standing one when I play this number.
"With Your Hand Upon My Heart" was the single he released with Patti LaBelle. It is the stirring saga of a long-married couple.
Following this duet is "If You Could See Me Now". I felt he droned on a bit on this one, but it was appropriately mournful and well-expressed.
Next, he tries his hand at the Lena Horne classic, "Stormy Weather" with lighter orchestration, and a deletion of a stanza that results in it being more casual and less dramatic and emotional than Horne's.
"It Goes Like It Goes", from the film, "Norma Rae" finds the well-spoken Englishman trying to sound like someone from Rural America. It is light and amusing.
"She Used to be Mine" is a tribute to Crawford's ex-wife, Gabrielle Lewis. Sometimes it strikes me as a bit too revealing.
Then there is the intended centerpiece of this album, a duet of his signature tune, "Music of the Night" with his "Hello, Dolly!" co-star, Barbra Striesand. Admittedly, I alternate between feeling that they blend well together , and that the choir practice each had in their formative years rendered them well-prepared for this moment, and feeling that Barbra sometimes rides and dominates Michael like a bossy kid sister.
"Serenade in Blue" is the Glenn Miller hit from the year Michael was born . The overdoubling technique on this one is superb, and as is the case with "Stormy Weather", his delivery is light and sunny, compared in this case to Ray Eberle's plaintive vocal of 1942.
"Speak Low", originally from "One Touch of Venus" is a skillfully done Big Band Era number to which one could easliy tango. I've often wondered if Dick Haymes' version in the film inspired this version.
"Since You Stayed Here", is another wistful one in which Crawford aptly expresses genuine sadness behind a cheerful facade, and he loans particularly sharp articulation to the next sad number, "One of my Best Friends".
"Papa, Can You Hear Me?/A Piece of Sky" from Striesand's 1983 film, "Yentl" is the finale for which Crawford saves all his divine fire. It is a journey from darkness to light, perhaps intermingled with Crawford's own personal history as a lad whose biological father was unknown to him. But it ends on a triumphant note, and I can almost hear the thunderous applause from those in the studio as he wound this one up.
As always, a commendable effort from one of Britain's most beloved entertainers!
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