My dream duets / Barry Manilow.
Material type: MusicPublisher number: B0020268-02 | Verve Music GroupPublisher: Santa Monica, CA : Verve Music Group, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 audio disc : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- performed music
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult CD | Main Library | CD | POP/ROCK Manilow, Barry | Available | 33111008272292 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
At 71 years old, Barry Manilow has reached the age when he can do anything he pleases, and what pleases him is singing along with old records by dead singers. That's all My Dream Duets is: Manilow brushing off his old cabaret routine so it can spruce up vintage records by Jimmy Durante and Judy Garland. He's not the only new element on these electronically rejiggered duets -- instrumentation, usually synthetic, sometimes as incessant as the drum loop that runs underneath "The Candyman," has been added -- but he's the notable addition, crooning full verses in addition to sliding in some corny asides. For all his showboating, he doesn't do much to distract from his idols. Time and time again, the singer who stands out on My Dream Duets is the original vocalist, the one who cut the track originally and stamped it indelibly with his or her own personality. Manilow recedes out of deference but also practicality: he's not duetting with a living singer, he's singing over an existing track and tailoring his performance to suit established contours. Consequently, there's not much dynamism here, but it's also not stiff because Manilow hams it up on the margins. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Compact disc.
Full credits on container insert.
Title from disc label.
The songs gotta come from the heart (with Jimmy Durante) -- Goody goody (with Frankie Lymon) -- Dream a little dream of me (with Mama Cass) -- I believe in you and me (with Whitney Houston) -- Sunshine on my shoulders (with John Denver) -- Zing! went the strings on my heart (with Judy Garland) -- Moon river (with Andy Williams) -- The look of love (with Dusty Springfield) -- The candyman (with Sammy Davis, Jr.) -- I wanna be loved by you (with Marilyn Monroe) -- What a wonderful world/What a wonderful life (with Louis Armstrong).
Performed by Barry Manilow ; with accomapnying musicians and various other performers.