Track Listing

1. Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time
2. Baby Come To Me
3. Quiet Time - Belle, Regina & Barry White
4. So Many Tears
5. What Goes Around
6. How Could You Do It To Me
7. Love TKO
8. Show Me The Way
9. Someday We'll All Be Free/Save The Children
10. All I Want Is Forever - Belle, Regina & J.T. Taylor
11. This Is Love
12. If I Could
13. Make It Like It Was
14. Whole New World - Belle, Regina & Peabo Bryson

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64957 in Music
• Released on: 1998-02-02
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

She has stolen my heart with this one !
Regina Belle shot to fame in 1989 with her single, 'Baby Come To Me' -- from her album "Stay With Me" -- which was a perfect example of the jazz-tinged soul-pop balladry which she had been recording since the mid 1980's.
The title of this 'best of ' collection was also Belle's worldwide hit single. The material featured here has been selected from her four studio albums which were recorded between 1987 and 1995.
With her own sophisticated brand of romantic soul, the acclaimed vocalist was one of the most popular contemporary singers of the eighties and nineties.
Once hailed as a female Luther Vandross, or as the less commercial side of Anita Baker, besides soul, her singing has roots in jazz and classic pop and she has Oscar and Grammy awards to her name.
This 'Best of' features a collection of the finest songs from all her albums including the platinum award winning smash 'A Whole New World'.
When Regina Belle wraps her velvety voice around a love song, the embrace is everlasting.
From a jazz whisper to a soulful serenade to a gospel shout, the gentle comforts of hope and faith are never far away.
Regina has soothed us with such standards as " Baby Come To Me" and " Make It Like It Was" and "If I Could".
Her dynamic duets with Peabo Bryson, Barry White and James "J.T." Taylor are also featured here.
They are stirring reminders that Regina has always been consistent, engaging, stylish and innovative. Never boring or derivative.
Please, listen also to her latest, unmissable masterpiece "LAZY AFTERNOON".

The irrisistible rise of Regina Belle.
Oh yes : the soulful, jazzy sounds of Regina Belle !!

I happened to come across this cd on Amazon quite by accident. Having never heard of Regina Belle I did play some of the sound samples and loved everyone of them.
After that I decided to purchase the CD. Every time I play it I like it just that much more.

Her voice reminds me a little of Billie Holiday with a helping of Dinah Washington, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle thrown in.
Soulful, elegant, powerful and beautiful vocal stylings all in one voice, amazing. It is very easy to get caught up in the emotion of the songs that she is singing because she makes the songs so personal.

"Didn't I blow your mind" : this is one of my favourite songs by the Stylistics and I didn't think that anyone could do it better and then I heard Regina Belle sing it and I was totally blown away. What an incredible voice and style!

Another one which I like a lot is "Baby come to me" ,and this has become her signature song.

"Love TKO" , originally a Teddy Pendegrass hit, truly is brought back to life by Regina with the amazing power and class in her unique, inimitable voice.

My # is the "Aladdin's" Grammy winner love-theme with Peabo Bryson. What a song , what a voice ,what a duet! Absolutely astounding and beautiful.

Every song on this fantastic compilation is a great listen. Both the production and engineering are done very well and serve to highlight Regina's style.

What we have here are fourteen great songs made better by the fact that Regina Belle is singing them.
If you like the sound of a stunning female voice, then this album is for you.

Hauntingly beautiful !
Regina Belle is an excellent, solid , always uncompromising , engaging and consistent performer who has churned out some really nice tracks in the last 20 years.
I'm into Rnb/Soul/Hip Hop, but I have no problem saying that I own this really good set of songs.
Her music has always been ground-breaking,adventurous and extremely good.

"Baby Come To Me" is her signature track, and most people's favourite Regina track. It's a perfect track and one which she will always be able to say is a "classic". This track will get played on radio in another 20 years time.
"A whole New World" is a track with that 90's feel which is catchy but it's track # 3 "So Many Tears" which I love. It's a perfect song for someone you love, and the lyrics are what most of us think of in that situation. It's tracks like this that makes Regina a true star and a real woman with something to say.
"Make It Like It Was" and "If I Could" are two soulful tracks. The latter being more hearfelt and deep about a mother and her child. Great stuff.Please,listen to Celine Dion's version from the album 'Miracle' and then form your opinion on it...

"What Goes Around" is classic Regina. It's her sophisticated sound. "Show Me The Way" is a heart wrenching number, which has some fantastic sax riffs, and a track which only her voice could make sound so real.
She does a jazz cover-medley of the classic Marvin Gaye and Donny Hathaway tracks that is "Save The Children/Someday We'll all Be Free". Its a spectacular effort,and unmatched masterpiece and you won't be skipping it.
The song "A Whole New world" was the killer track that went to number one, and really put her firmly on the map. It still gets lots and lots of airplay today and will for many years to come.
I've nearly forgot to mention the absolute classic duet "All I Want Is Forever". This track was superb when it was released all those years ago - and it still is today.

Regina will never have the superstar status that some have (just think about somebody like Janet Jackson or Celine Dion...In my modest opinion,she outclasses them by far !!!), but I think that she really doesn't care and is happy to be making good quality music that people enjoy.
This set is superb listening and pure,sublime delight for your heart and soul.