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List Price: $8.99 | | Label: Arista
Salesrank: 8836
Released: January 31, 2006 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Barry Manilow's The Greatest Songs of the Fifties Track Listing:
1. Moments To Remember
2. It’s All In The Game
3. Unchained Melody
4. Venus
5. It’s Not For Me To Say
6. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
7. Rags To Riches
8. Sincerely/Teach Me Tonight (Duet with Phyllis McGuire)
9. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
10. Young At Heart
11. All I Have To Do Is Dream
12. What A Diff’rence A Day Made
13. Beyond The Sea
Editorial Review:
No one can reinvent the great classics of the 1950’s better than Barry Manilow. He breathes new life and vitality into these truly wonderful songs and they sound fresh and timeless. We are together on a mission to bring to a new generation the great songs of a different era, and reuniting with him makes it all the more special. -Clive Davis
Highlighted by a guest appearance from Phyllis McGuire of the McGuire Sisters on the medley of 1954 hits, "Teach Me Tonight/Sincerely," THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE FIFTIES is a veritable jukebox of favorites – from his remake of the Four Lads’ "Moments To Remember" (1955) and the Everly Brothers’ "All I Have To Do Is Dream" (1958), to Bobby Darin’s "Beyond The Sea" (1959)– but to hear them collected on one album is a dream come true. The project (just like the era it emulates) cuts across musical genres, from The Four Ace’s,"Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" (1955), to Frankie Avalon’s "Venus", to Johnny Mathis’ "It's Not For Me To Say" (1957), to Tommy Edwards’ "It’s All In The Game" (1958), and Dinah Washington’s signature "What A Diff'rence A Day Made" (1959). Some of America’s greatest artists are evoked on songs that are forever associated with them, for example, Tony Bennett on "Rags To Riches" (1953) and the Four Aces on the motion picture title tune hit "Love Is A Many! Splendored Thing" (1955). More: the spirit of Frank Sinatra imbues "Young At Heart"(1954) and Elvis Presley is remembered with "Are You Lonesome Tonight." "Unchained Melody" (1955) remains one of the most-recorded songs in contemporary popular music.
For Manilow, THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE FIFTIES is a true labor of love.
Description of Barry Manilow's The Greatest Songs of the Fifties:
Clive Davis's ear earns him more accolades than most of his talents' vocal chords. Now it's time to give it up for his enterprising instincts. The Greatest Songs of the Fifties arrives on the heels of another of the famous producer's backward-looking projects, the ubiquitous, uber-successful Great American Songbook series by Rod Stewart. The short story: same vibe, different era. With songs like "All I Have to Do Is Dream," "Venus," and "Unchained Melody" (first recorded in the '50s but best known for its '60s Righteous Brothers rendition), Manilow sidesteps the stuff that rocked the sock hops in favor of cheek-to-cheek selections--the better to remind longtime fans of his nostalgia-steeped '70s hits. Overall, the approach works, especially when the bona fide '50s legend Phyllis McGuire steps in to heat up the "Teach Me Tonight/Sincerely" medley, and Manilow swings across genres to lovingly tackle Dinah Washington's "What a Diff'rence a Day Made." Vocally, a warm haze covers these tracks; whether it's there to evoke fuzzier times or to mask a voice that's gone slightly south is unclear. What couldn't be more crystal, though, is Manilow and Davis's commitment to first-class, sophisticated record-making. --Tammy La Gorce
Barry Manilow's The Greatest Songs of the Fifties Reviews:
Barry Manilow continues to be a wonderful performer!! 
2008-10-25 - I know that a lot of people don't like his style, musical pieces and voice. I noticed many negative opinions and everyone has the right to have different points of view and preferences, but, Amazon friends, he knows how to sing and perform. Besides he's also a very competent conductor. This is a romantic and soothing CD, you feel in a good mood listening to it. If you don't like the style, refrain from having it. And by the way, no-one has the righs to forbid you to sing 50' songs in karaokes, why should'nt a wonderful artist like Barry sing songs from that period?
CD
2008-07-28 - Good price and fast service. My wife loves Barry and plays his CDs all the time. Will shop again and would recomment to anyone.
Manilow Fifties
2008-02-09 - The Greatest Songs of the Fifties (Manilow) is my favorite CD. Listen to it everyday. Brings back many great memories.
Great songs by a great singer
2008-01-08 - Barry has chosen some great songs from the fifties and sung them perfectly. I don't think I can ask for more. This is the second same CD I have bought. My friend listened and liked it so much that I felt obliged to give it to her as a gift.
so-so 
2007-10-09 - Barry is good at Barry; leave the 50's to the people that did the original recordings.
