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Vocal Music
Release Date: 06/24/2008
Run Time: 55:14
Michael Feinstein's label debut for Atlantic was a thematic album of sad love songs, but the emphasis was more on the sweet than the sorrow; this was no album of saloon songs like
Frank Sinatra's Only the Lonely. As often as not,
Feinstein simply chose songs of not-yet-requited love, like
Cole Porter's "Easy to Love" or
Leo Robin and
Lewis Gensler's "Love Is Just Around the Corner," while he reflected on love's downs as well as its ups in
Johnny Burke and
Jimmy Van Heusen's "But Beautiful."
Feinstein effectively combined such vintage material with "Wasn't There a Moment," a brand-new
Jimmy Webb song, and even "For Love Alone," one of his own, and dug up such lost gems as "Theme from the Bad and the Beautiful,"
Dory Previn's lyrical setting over
David Raksin's theme. And
Feinstein made a point of inserting arcane lyrics and other musical treats, such as having a quartet of flutes play
Coleman Hawkins's famous saxophone solo during "Body and Soul," amaking the album a delight for fellow archivists as well as fans of vocal music.
~William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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