Track Listing

1. Light My Fire
2. Stay With Me
3. Chico And The Man (Main Theme)
4. And I Love Her
5. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
6. You're No Good
7. Pegao
8. Nature Boy
9. California Dreamin'
10. (There's) Always Something To Remind Me
11. Here There And Everywhere
12. Sunny
13. And The Sun Will Shine
14. Daytime Dreams
15. Yesterday
16. Essence Of Your Love
17. Rain
18. By The Time I Get To Phoenix
19. In My Life
20. And The Feeling's Good

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34725 in Music
• Released on: 1997-01-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

An excellent introduction to Feliciano's music
Jose Feliciano made a career out of improving on other people's songs. The reason? He was able to bring out feelings and emotions that the original, less gifted, musicians were unable to comprehend.

The Doors' Light My Fire is as essential as Feliciano's, but Jose surpasses The Mammas and the Papas with California Dreamin'.

For one thing, this song about loneliness sounds better by a solo singer than a quartet. For another, Feliciano's vocal skills match his famed guitar playing. In actual fact, aside from Pegao, the instrumentals tend to be the low points here.

What is surprising is how good Feliciano's own compositions are - Stay with Me, Chico and the Man, Rain and Daytime Dreams, a real gem worth the cost of this cut-price CD alone.

The liner notes mention an unreleased version of Cream's Sunshine of Your Love. Where is it?

Sumptuous sounds
The album opens with an inspired cover of Light My Fire. Far more filled with soul and life than The Doors' original, even though it is much lighter. California Dreamin' is delicate and powerful with a lovely twist towards the end. A pleasant surprise, for me, was the cover of Nature Boy - recently revitalised in Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge". Feliciano's voice is creamy, light and generally quite beautiful. As for the guitar playing, it is shown off best in Pegao, which I defy anyone to listen to without getting the urge to clap along to the flamenco-style, driving beat.

Feliciano's own compositions complement the covers well, to complete truly lovely and well-balanced album with a good mix of ballads, rock and flamenco-style tracks.

Returning to a warm place
I owned this album about 30 years ago and lost it about 20 years ago. I have just found myself singing California Dreaming and Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, word for word with every intonation (I'm sure it would have sounded terrible to an eavesdropper)and have signed straight on to Amazon to see if it is still around. This is the most beautiful album I have ever owned (along with Van Morrison). Jose Feliciano pulls at my heart strings like no other artist and his guitar playing is sublime. As soon as I receive my copy I shall get in my car and drive for miles, probably with tissue breaks in between. Sorry its a bit girlie but nothing transports me back to my youth like his music.