Timi Yuro - Amazing Timi Yuro: The Mercury Years
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Artist: Timi YuroEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-07-04
Music Label: Universal UK
Soundtracks:
- I'm Afraid The Masquerade Is Over
- All I Need Is You
- I Love My Man
- I Didn't Know What Time It Was
- I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
- If
- Maybe You'll Be There
- I Can Dream, Can't I?
- Johnny
- There Must Be A Way
- My Foolish Heart
- I'm Still Around
- You Can Have Him
- Could This Be Magic
- Get Out Of My Life
- Can't Stop Running Away
- Teardrops 'Till Dawn
- Pretend
- Turn The World Around The Other Way
- Just A Ribbon
- Cuttin' In
- Why Not Now
- E Poi Verra L'autunno
- Ti Credo
Free Music Notes for Amazing Timi Yuro: The Mercury Years
Free Music Review: Timi Yuro really WAS amazing
Hit: 5 Stars
I am absolutely overjoyed that, at long last, "The Amazing Timi Yuro" has been released complete on CD. I've waited years. There is another CD out there with the same cover graphics, but it includes only a few of the songs on the original. Now, all 12 of the original, magnificent songs are intact, as well as 12 more songs that were unknown to me. It's odd the way things worked in the '60s with Timi. She recorded several marvelous songs that were released as 45's but that never made it onto LP's. On this compilation, "Just a Ribbon," which only made it as a 45 in its day, is my favorite, a fabulous ballad sung as only Timi could have.
I first became aware of Timi Yuro in 1983 when I was in a shop in West Hollywood called Dorothy's Surrender. "The Amazing Timi Yuro" was being played in the shop, and I was stunned by what I heard and asked the owner who the singer was. When he told me Timi Yuro, and that recently she had been a megastar in Belgium where excited concert audiences had thrown the seats around, I felt too embarassed to admit I had no idea who she was, but I remembered the name and went on to hunt down any of her albums I could find. She's been slow to emerge on CD, but slowly but surely it's happening. I agree that Bear records should do a box set of her. She's way underrated, and I am constantly irritated by how difficult it is to find her CD's in the stores.
"The Amazing Timi Yuro" is full of some of the most extraordinary renditions of songs I have ever heard. Timi belts her songs in a lower range, which strongly appeals to me, and she sings with total sincerity and emotion. She really puts her all into everything song she sings -- and sometimes the strain on her vocal chords does show, as when her voice cracks in "I Didn't Know What Time it Was" (I am not sure if her throat cancer was due to her singing, but I assume it was). Every song in "The Amazing Timi Yuro" is wonderful. I've been listening to this album for 23 years now, and I never tire of it. Timi really was "soul." Many of her contemporaries, most notably Barbra Streisand, were much into technique, but Timi specialized in capturing the emotion and soul of a song. Really, she's the most amazing singer I've ever heard. Dinah Washington was even a fan (and tried to outdo Timi by recording her own version of "Hurt," but it's a very pale copy, even by Dinah's high standards).
"Johnny" is a particuarly gorgeous song in which Timi laments the loss of someone in her life named Johnny. We do not know who Johnny is or why Johnny is gone -- the assumption is he died, but it's left purposely unstated, so that the listener can read anything he likes into the song. It's melodic, moving, beautiful -- everything a song should be. During the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980's, I considered "Johnny" an unoffical theme song for that catastrophe.
Billie Holiday's last recorded song was supposedly "Don't Worry About Me." It wasn't, but it makes a nice thought. Similarly, a lilting song on "The Amazing Timi Yuro" is a good one to remember Timi by: "I'm Still Around."
Why Timi is so overlooked is a mystery to me. Why so few have even heard of her is a mystery. I so wish she had made more lush albums like "Amazing." Alas, I believe she made only one further LP, "Something Bad on My Mind," an album I've heard she detested but which I've always liked. Well, there's very little Timi sang that I don't like.
To cite the cliche, if I was to have only one CD on a deserted island, it would definitely be "The Amazing Timi Yuro." It is an astonishing achievement. Taken in conjunction with her Liberty recordings, it reveals an incredibly gifted artist whom the gods graced with almost superhuman talent only to take it all away with bad timing (she was undermined the British invasion in the late '60s) and health issues. Her fans don't need a record title to tell them Timi was amazing: we've known that for years.
Amazing Timi Yuro: The Mercury Years Poster
Often Described in her Early Years as "The Little Girl with the Big Voice", Timi Yuro Recorded but One Album While at Mercury in the Early/Mid 60s. This Brand New Collection Opens with that Entire Original Recording and a Number of Other Classic Interpretations, Jazz Standards and Rare B-sides. All of which Are Making their First Appearance on CD, Since their Original Vinyl Release Some 30 Years Ago.Broadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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