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List Price: $8.99 | | Label: Arista
Salesrank: 8697
Released: October 31, 2006 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Greatest Songs of the Sixties Track Listing:
1. "Can't Take My Eyes Off You"
2. "Cherish"/"Windy" (medley duet with 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 Sometime"
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"
Editorial Review:
After The Greatest Songs of the Fifties skyrocketted to #1 on the Billboard charts and attained Platinum status, Barry Manilow once again takes us through time with his upcoming release, The Greatest Songs of the Sixties. The album, produced by Manilow and Clive Davis, features endless classics including a remake of the Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling'" (1965) to the Beatles' "And I Love Her"(1964), to Herb Alpert's "This Guy's In Love With You" (1968), the Lettermen's "When I Fall In Love" (1962) and Burt Bacharach's "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" (1969)
Description of The Greatest Songs of the Sixties:
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 ten 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' favorites 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
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Barry Manilow: Live (Special Edition) |
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The Greatest Songs of the Sixties Reviews:
Essentially karaoke (Association not included) 
2009-11-13 - I bought this CD when I learned that Barry Manilow did a medley of "Cherish" and "Windy" with original members of The Association. What a waste of money this entire CD turned out to be. I should have simply downloaded that one cut for $.99 from Amazon, because this number is fantastic. The original and 2nd-generation members who make up the new Association sound wonderful, dead ringers for the original. The medley is lovely, with vocal work you rarely hear any more.
But then there is the rest of the CD.
To begin, calling this "The Greatest Songs of the Sixties" is a misrepresentation. "There's a Kind of Hush?" "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head?" "Strangers in the Night?" Please! Don't insult my intelligence. Or my memory of good music.
Then Manilow's covers amount to little more than karaoke. Yes, he has good pipes and a pleasant style. But he adds no interpretation and sheds no new light on these tired chestnuts. He just sings against the same 40-year-old arrangements as before. Manilow is capable of more, and he does not deliver.
In all, this CD was gamble that I lost. I thought that Barry Manilow could rise above his turgid, sentimental style by reinterpreting some great songs. But the songs were not great, and neither is he.
Good Fine Work for Barry 
2009-03-04 - I like this CD and really like what he does to these songs. He gives them his own style but yet can sing them the way they should.
Barry should stick to the 70's 
2008-12-24 - Did not enjoy the song selection on this CD. Only like 2 of the songs. His 70's CD is much better.
Great musicAnother 
2008-07-17 - Another great album by Barry Manilow. Good selection of songs, all done
exceptionally well.
Barry is still singing so well!
2008-04-08 - I've listened to this album yesterday and I'm keeping it very close to my preferred CDs to keep on listening to it in the near future. I love the way he sings and recreated this album but also consider (as another review writer before) that he is a very good writer of new songs and I hope he will write new songs for a new album not only new versions of oldies but ... this is a very good album either.
