Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Wednesday's Child
2. Come Back To Me
3. Exodus
4. Around The World
5. Alfie
6. Days Of Wine And Roses
7. Spring Is Here
8. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
9. Gonna Build A Mountain
10. For All We Know
11. Impossible Dream
12. Love Story
13. Maria (West Side Story)
14. Happy
15. My Kind Of Girl
16. Precious Moments
17. Man And A Woman
18. Second Time Around (High Time)
19. September Song
20. Shadow Of Your Smile
21. On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
22. Jean
23. When I Look In Your Eyes
24. All My Loving
25. Wrong Time (It's Alright By Me)

Disc 2:

1. Hello, Dolly
2. A Place In Paris
3. Over The Rainbow (The Wizard Of Oz)
4. Alone Am I
5. Let Me Sing And I'm Happy
6. Hello Young Lovers
7. More
8. Chattanooga Choo Choo
9. Sunrise Sunset
10. Everybody's Talkin'
11. Charade
12. Unchained Melody
13. Let's Face The Music And Dance
14. Somewhere
15. Be My Love
16. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
17. What To Do
18. You're Sensational
19. Laura
20. As Long As She Needs Me
21. Born Free
22. Strangers In The Night
23. People (Funny Girl)
24. Singin' In The Rain
25. When You Wish Upon A Star

Disc 3:

1. On Days Like These
2. A Time For Love
3. Nearness Of You
4. Stardust
5. Moment To Moment
6. From Russia With Love
7. Stranger In Paradise (Kismet)
8. I Will Wait For You
9. Memory
10. Put On A Happy Face
11. Speak Softly Love
12. I Have Dreamed
13. When I Fall In Love
14. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
15. Nothing To Lose
16. In The Arms Of Love
17. Love Walked In (The Goldwyn Follies Of 1937)
18. And We Were Lovers
19. What A Wonderful World
20. Georgia On My Mind
21. L'Etoile Du Sud (The Southern Star)
22. Cheek To Cheek
23. Green Leaves Of Summer (Alamo)
24. Till The End Of Time

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36538 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-15
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .48 pounds

Customer Reviews

MATT'S MOVIE SONG TREASURES ARE AN UNDOUBTED LISTENING PLEASURE
This excellent triple-disc anthology delves into the wide world of movie songs with Matt's much missed vocal magic effectively interpreting no less than seventy-four numbers. Whatever the quality of the material, Matt never gave a less than an excellent performance with lyrics always gaining depth and believability. So it is here, with some songs obviously lacking distinction and having fallen by the wayside, ideally included in this themed package. PRECIOUS MOMENTS, HAPPY, NOTHING TO LOSE, THE SOUTHERN STAR, WHAT TO DO? ALONE AM I, and A PLACE IN PARIS may mean little as titles but add their rarer worth when tracked in beside Matt's highly personalised hits BORN FREE, WEDNESDAY'S CHILD, ON DAYS LIKE THESE and FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE.

Such an assortment of songs, allows unusual arrangements and HELLO DOLLY loses its razzmatazz "in yer face" bravado and emergea as a smoothly romantic ballad; there's an early contemporaneous beat revision of OVER THE RAINBOW, while that big-band favourite CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO nicely heads down the tracks in shuffle-mode. Movie themes, CHARADE, EXODUS, DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES, MORE and SPEAK SOFTLY LOVE when expanded with lyrics, helped swell box-office takings with Matt's definitive renderings adding vocal kudos to ensure their longevity and worth. I HAVE DREAMED, SUNRISE, SUNSET, HELLO YOUNG LOVERS, SOMEWHERE, MARIA, I'VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO HER FACE and THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM are strong Broadway show favourites which rightfully transferred to Hollywood soundstages for recreation in their faithful movie versions and it has to be pointed out THE WRONG TIME (IT'S ALRIGHT BY ME) is in fact Cole Porter's CAN CAN classic IT'S ALL RIGHT WITH ME.

It's not unusual nowadays for EMI to raid its archives to uncover previously unreleased recordings and this time around English-language versions of LOVE STORY and that gorgeous Bricusse/Newley DOCTOR DOLITTLE ballad WHEN I LOOK IN YOUR EYES have been unleashed for listening pleasure as an undoubted hook for Matt's fans to fork out their pennies and enjoy the privilege. Thankfully, there's more to come and like the many Monro compilations already in the music store racks, this collection fulfils its intention and will tempt many takers. As usual, Matt's daughter, Michelle, is prime mover and shaker with her notes describing the onward progress of Hollywood, its films and songs.

welcome issue, but with faults
I welcome any Matt Monro issue that adds new items to my discography; in this three cd set there are very many overlaps however. What bugged me more is that recording dates and the accompanying orchestras are not mentioned at all; instead we get liner notes that list the movies from which the songs were taken; sometimes with too much artifice: Stranger In Paradise had been around since 1940 (with different words) before it was used in film; the same goes for Stardust, Chattanooga Choo Choo and some others; but the quality of the singing is beyond reproach, and in that it would be a good buy for newcomers to the Monro world, certainly at this price.