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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: RCA
Salesrank: 56357
Released: September 17, 1996 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Voice of an Angel Track Listing:
1. I'm Beginning to See the Light
2. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
3. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
4. I'm Just a Lucky So and So
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Little Girl Blue
7. And Now
8. Two Sleepy People
9. End of a Love Affair
10. I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)
11. How Did He Look?
12. All by Myself
13. I Had the Craziest Dream
14. Let's Get Away from It All
15. Always
16. Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
17. These Foolish Things
18. Call Me [#]
19. And the Angels Sing
20. Don't You Know
Voice of an Angel Reviews:
Great Vintage Music 
2009-05-09 - Long before "Touched by an Angel", Della Reese was a huge singing star. With three million-sellers, four Grammy nominations, and a reputation as one of the most versatile singers of her time, this compilation is a great documentation of that period of time. All of these songs were recorded for RCA Victor, so that means that you won't get her first big hit "And That Reminds", which she recorded for Jubilee Records back in 1957. Strangely, it also somehow leaves off her big hits "Not One Minute More", which she DID record for RCA, and to a lesser extent, the beautiful "The Most Beautiful Words". I find it strange that the compilers didn't include either one of them. But, what they did include is a vide variety of songs from the Great American songbook. Della had no problem singing everything from "All by Myself" to a swinging rendition of "I'm Beginning to See the Light". Della's voice is incredible. Her diction is near perfect, and nobody had a vibrato like her. You can hear some influences from Sarah Vaughan and Mahalia Jackson, but her sound remains very much her own. It was rare for African American women to have big, I mean really big mainstream hits at that time, so the fact that Della managed to score the hits that she did, is a great testament to her incredible talent.
Makes a friend Happy!
2009-02-02 - Ordered this for a friend and he likes it, so it gets 5 stars from me!
A surprise package
2003-12-10 - Why a surprise package? Perhaps the fault of a senior memory bank. Seeing Della reese on the tube got me thinking.My vast collection of artists did not include her. Give yourself a treat! A treat that lasts about 70 minutes of sheer delight! I must not have remembered how distinctive Della's vocalizing can be.Per liner notes.."Della Reese swoops and soars with an unabashed big souled hunger".Twenty tracks! Each better that the last. # 16 " Someday" Towers above them all! Welcome home Della!
Pieces of Della Reese's 
2000-05-31 - I have never doubted any of Della Reese's talents: her singing, her acting, her salesmanship (remember her doing Campbell's Soup commercials in the 70s?) Likewise, my grandmother remembers Reese's variety show from the 60s and speaks very highly of the divine Della Reese. And although I'm not a fan of "Touched by an Angel," I always stop on that show any time Della is anywhere on screen. I'm tempted to agree with one of the previous reviewers of this collection--I wouldn't exactly classify Reese's voice or presence as angelic, and for now, a better word escapes me. Therefore, you must listen to this CD for yourself. "Don't You Know" is, of course, Reese's biggest hit--from 1959. So lush and romantic, you'll weep every time you hear it. My other favorite is "Let's Get Away From It All," also from 1959. This song is of course more closely associated with The Chairman of the Board, but Reese's version is more raucous and hilarious. How can it not be with lyrics like, "You'd better start your packin', we're leavin' Hackensack and baby, let's get away from it all..."? There are some lovely jazz-type ballads here as well--Della, a piano, a little bass; her voice is a little too loud on some of the softer numbers (and certainly on the louder, brassier numbers), but all in all this is a very sophisticated yet campy collection. You don't have to play all of the songs at your next smart cocktail party--program in the ones you like and let Della's voice speak, rather sing, for itself. Believe me, people will ask you about it, as though it never occurred to them that Reese could sing--or that she had a career before "Angel..." As well, there are some marvelous pictures of Della in her day--she's very striking and very glamorous. If the voice isn't angelic, it's certainly American (in spite of some of the stilted pronunciations of words with long aaahhhhh sounds--as in Caaaahn't...)and highly androgynous. In fact, as a child, I refused to believe that "Don't You Know" was sung by a woman. But that's the charm--the elusive charm of Della Reese. Some of these songs will disappoint you; don't let that stop you. You can't love everything a talented individual does.
Pieces of Della Reese's
2000-05-30 - I have never doubted any of Della Reese's talents: her singing, her acting, her salesmanship (remember her doing Campbell's Soup commercials in the 70s?) Likewise, my grandmother remembers Reese's variety show from the 60s and speaks very highly of the divine Della Reese. And although I'm not a fan of "Touched by an Angel," I always stop on that show any time Della is anywhere on screen. I'm tempted to agree with one of the previous reviewers of this collection--I wouldn't exactly classify Reese's voice or presence as angelic, and for now, a better word escapes me. Therefore, you must listen to this CD for yourself. "Don't You Know" is, of course, Reese's biggest hit--from 1959. So lush and romantic, you'll weep every time you hear it. My other favorite is "Let's Get Away From It All," also from 1959. This song is of course more closely associated with The Chairman of the Board, but Reese's version is more raucous and hilarious. How can it not be with lyrics like, "You'd better start your packin', we're leavin' Hackensack and baby, let's get away from it all..."? There are some lovely jazz-type ballads here as well--Della, a piano, a little bass; her voice is a little too loud on some of the softer numbers (and certainly on the louder, brassier numbers), but all in all this is a very sophisticated yet campy collection. You don't have to play all of the songs at your next smart cocktail party--program in the ones you like and let Della's voice speak, rather sing, for itself. Believe me, people will ask you about it, as though it never occurred to them that Reese could sing--or that she had a career before "Angel..." As well, there are some marvelous pictures of Della in her day--she's very striking and very glamorous. If the voice isn't angelic, it's certainly American (in spite of some of the stilted pronunciations of words with long aaahhhhh sounds--as in Caaaahn't...)and highly androgynous. In fact, as a child, I refused to believe that "Don't You Know" was sung by a woman. But that's the charm--the elusive charm of Della Reese. Some of these songs will disappoint you; don't let that stop you. You can't love everything a talented individual does.
