Ray Conniff - Love Theme from 'The Godfather' / Alone Again (Naturally) 1972

Исполнитель: Ray Conniff
Альбом: Love Theme from 'The Godfather' / Alone Again (Naturally)
Производитель диска: Sony/Collectables (COL-CD-7609 / A 70343)
Жанр: Jazz, Easy Listening
Год: 1972 (2004)
Формат: FLAC (image + .cue)
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Размер: 370 MB
Залито на: Ray Conniff - Love Theme from 'The Godfather' / Alone Again (Naturally) 1972

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Дополнительно: Covers

In 2004, Collectables' reissued two of Ray Conniff's 1972 albums, Love Theme from "The Godfather" and Alone Again (Naturally), on one CD -- one CD that contained no new liner notes, just the front covers reproduced in miniature, and the contents of the two albums reproduced in total. Like many easy listening and adult pop musicians, Ray Conniff turned toward modern pop and rock songwriters in the early '70s in an effort to stay contemporary, which is not necessarily the same thing as getting hip -- although that may have been part of the plan, as well. In any case, Conniff tackled such current hits as "Hurting Each Other," "A Horse With No Name," and "Without You," as well as such songwriters as Sonny Bono, on his 1972 album Love Theme from "The Godfather", treating them to arrangements that had grown familiar to any fan of Conniff or easy listening in the '70s. Conniff had backed away from the more interesting tricks and turns of his work a decade earlier, and had settled into sweet, syrupy orchestral arrangements graced by airy, relentlessly sunny harmony vocals pulled from a Mitch Miller album. For the most part, this results in music that is so middle-of-the-road it rarely registers outside of background music, and it glides by nicely at that level. Of course, a record like this is primarily of interest to latter-day listeners anxious to discover a new piece of kitsch, and while a quick scan of the songs suggests that this would be great kitsch, it's entirely too MOR to be worth a chuckle, outside of a take on "Theme from 'Shaft'" that is so ridiculous, it feels like Conniff and crew were in on the joke -- after all, who could sing a line "who's the black private dick who's a sex machine to all the crazy chicks?" without realizing it was silly? That may bring a smile to your face, but the rest of the album is quite forgettable, as is its follow-up, Alone Again (Naturally). The third of Ray Conniff's three albums of contemporary pop hits in 1972, Alone Again (Naturally) is the one that feels most like contemporary AM Pop from the early '70s, partially because Conniff spices up his arrangements a little and partially because there's a wider variety of styles on this album, from Gilbert O'Sullivan's deceptively catchy title song, to Donna Fargo's country-pop "The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA"; Anthony Newley's show-stopping kitsch "The Candy Man," and Looking Glass' quintessential "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)." Since there's more variety here than there was on the preceding Love Theme from "The Godfather", Conniff has the opportunity to write some more interesting arrangements -- the spare electric guitar opening of "Song Sung Blue," the punctuating horns on "Where Is the Love" -- which makes this a more engaging listen than its predecessor. Nevertheless, this album, like the last, is firmly entrenched in MOR easy listening, designed to be background listening and succeeding at that. And that means that those listeners looking for a campy piece of kitsch will be sorely disappointed -- Conniff and crew never take enough chances to do something truly, memorably silly here, and it all glides by without making much of an impression. As period background music, it isn't bad, but neither is it particularly good, and outside of a quick dose of nostalgia, there isn't much of a reason to listen to it now. It's a period piece, nothing more, nothing less.

Трэклист:

01. Speak Softly Love (Love Theme from "The Godfather")
02. Hurting Each Other
03. A Horse with No Name
04. I Need You
05. Living in a House Divided
06. Precious and Few
07. Without You
08. A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done
09. The First Time (Ever I Saw Your Face)
10. Theme from "Shaft"
11. The Way of Love
12. Alone Again (Naturally)
13. Song Sung Blue
14. Where Is the Love
15. The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA
16. The Candy Man
17. Because
18. Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast
19. Day by Day (From the Musical Production "Godspell")
20. Run to Me
21. Too Young
22. Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)

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