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Music : The Greatest Songs of the SixtiesIn association with Amazon.comby: Barry Manilow  
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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0828768264027 Label: Arista Manufacturer: Arista Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Arista Release Date: October 31, 2006 Studio: Arista Sales Rank: 6980 MPN: 82640 Disc 1:
Editorial Review: Album Description: After The Greatest Songs of the Fifties skyrocketted to #1 on the Billboard charts and attained Platinum status, Barry Manilow once again takes us through time with his upcoming release, The Greatest Songs of the Sixties. The album, produced by Manilow and Clive Davis, features endless classics including a remake of the Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling'" (1965) to the Beatles' "And I Love Her"(1964), to Herb Alpert's "This Guy's In Love With You" (1968), the Lettermen's "When I Fall In Love" (1962) and Burt Bacharach's "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" (1969) Amazon.com: The premise is debatable (can you really call a disc with only one Beatles song a compendium of top '60s tunes?), but the product is anything but. The success of The Greatest Songs of the Fifties, released ten months prior to this latest exercise in musical time-travel, must have stoked Barry Manilow's interpretive skills, or else he's more a flowerchild at heart than his once overly wide lapels and disco shoes let on. Because formulaic as this disc is, it bespeaks a not easily achieved vocal mastery and a gift for gently prying a song away from its original owner. Which is to say it's better than its predecessor. Hand Manilow a Righteous Brothers tune ("You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'") and he magically minimizes its scale, making it seem more intimate still; pass him a classic made famous by both the Carpenters and Herman's Hermits ("There's a Kind of Hush"), and instead of sending his listeners off on undulating waves of nostalgia, he quietly makes them aware he should have sung it all along (no offense, Herman). "Cherish/Windy," a medley with the Association, works well, but it's the Bacharach numbers that will nudge themselves to the top of easy-listening fans' favorites lists. "This Guy's in Love with You," "What the World Needs Now is Love," and "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," memorable as the original renditions are, have been reawakened; given the Manilow spin, they become the kind of songs the whole world wants to sing. --Tammy La Gorce More from Barry Manilow
Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Barry should stick to the 70'sDid not enjoy the song selection on this CD. Only like 2 of the songs. His 70's CD is much better. Rating:  - Great musicAnotherAnother great album by Barry Manilow. Good selection of songs, all done exceptionally well. Rating: - Barry is still singing so well!I've listened to this album yesterday and I'm keeping it very close to my preferred CDs to keep on listening to it in the near future. I love the way he sings and recreated this album but also consider (as another review writer before) that he is a very good writer of new songs and I hope he will write new songs for a new album not only new versions of oldies but ... this is a very good album either. Rating: - I love his traditional covers of these great old songsI think BM did great justice to these songs and I enjoyed his singing as always and the traditional arrangements by such a wonderfully talented man and one I have enjoyed since I first heard him in the 70's with his beautiful piano playing a wide ranging voice. Keep it up Barry and thanks for your originals and these tributes to some of your favorite songs of the various decades. Rating: - Barry Manilow The Greatest Songs of the SixtiesBarry Manilow, The Greatest Songs of the Sixties. I purchased this with Songs of the Seventies and found them great, easy to listen to songs. Barry has great voice and good diction. Browse for similar items by category:
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