Product Description

Barry Manilow is the undisputed master of the piano-led ballad, and on this, his latest tribute to a bygone musical era, he once again takes listeners on a thrilling ride through some of the sixties biggest hits. Includes the tracks 'California Dreamin' and 'Yesterday'.

Track Listing

1. Can't Take My Eyes Off You
2. Cherish/Windy - Manilow, Barry & The Association
3. Can't Help Falling In Love
4. There's A Kind Of Hush
5. Blue Velvet
6. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
7. And I Love Her
8. This Guy's In Love With You
9. Everybody Loves Somebody
10. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
11. When I Fall In Love
12. Strangers In The Night
13. What The World Needs Now Is Love
14. California Dreamin'
15. Yesterday

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23843 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-27
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
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 eight 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' favourites 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

Customer Reviews

a nice easy listen,...
If you like Manilow you'll like his take on these 60's classics,..it's nothing earth-changing, just good, listenable, relaxing music produced the BM way. Also the Amazon reviewer doesn't know what they're talking about, there are 2 beatles songs on here, 'And I love her' which is a classic Lennon/Mc Cartney standard is also included.

manilowtastic
brilliant as always, he makes me love songs I used to hate
the musicality is superb, the agnst and emotional feeling he puts into every song

FANILOW-TASTIC!
This is a wonderful, make you feel good CD! All the Fanilows would be proud. Ignore the negative reviews, they dont know what they are talking about. This is real music with real emotion and will move you. ENJOY!