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List Price: $7.99 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 9526
Released: June 1, 1999 |
| Our Price: $4.33 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Come by Me Track Listing:
1. Nowhere with Love
2. Come by Me
3. Charade
4. Change Partners
5. Easy for You to Say
6. Time After Time
7. Next Door Blues [Instrumental]
8. Easy to Love
9. There's No Business Like Show Business
10. Moment With Me
11. Danny Boy
12. Cry Me a River
13. Love for Sale
Editorial Review:
People first smitten with Harry Connick Jr. due to his easy, timeless charm and swoon-worthy croon on the 1989 soundtrack When Harry Met Sally are in for a big treat. Come by Me, a delightful sequence of treasures both old and new, is Connick's first big-band record since 1991's Blue Light, Red Light. What's not to like? With equal precision and confidence, Connick and his 16-piece band (and at times a full symphony orchestra) move seamlessly between the boisterous self-penned title cut, the Mancini standard "Charade," and the Cole Porter gem "Love for Sale." He gives a straight and moving voice and piano take on "Danny Boy," a stepped-up freshness to "There's No Business Like Show Business," and "Cry Me a River," following his unique vision, becomes an emotionally broken Bourbon Street funereal march. Strings swell, horns wail and skronk, high hats tap time, and those magic fingers dance across the keys. All told, Come by Me is a welcome invitation. --Paige La Grone
Come by Me Reviews:
an absolute delight to enjoy over and over again 
2009-09-03 - Harry Connick Jr. rightfully deserves the spotlight; he is a masterful artist who endears himself to fans with his incredible performances in person or on CD. This album is certainly a must-have for Harry's fans; he's in great form here and just one listen proves it! The quality of the sound on this CD is excellent and that artwork is very nicely done.
"Nowhere With Love" starts the set of songs with Harry swinging gently to make this number shine! The music that plays really compliments Harry's vocals but wisely the musicians never even try to steal the stage away from Harry--he's standing squarely front and center which is right where he belongs! The music makes good use of the brass, too. "Come by Me," the album title song, features Harry performing to perfection--and beyond! That piano playing is faultless and Harry does this one up right! He never sings a superfluous note and that's grand--what a number! Harry is truly a great songwriter; "Come by Me" is outstanding in every way.
"Charade" gets the royal treatment from Harry Connick Jr. whose excellent diction bolsters his performing all the more; the big band style musical arrangement works wonders for this classic song. Great! "Change Partners" has Harry crooning at his very best; and he handles complex tempo and key changes like a pro. I'm very impressed. "Time After Time" has Harry delivering this most passionately with a very sensitive treatment; the music and Harry's singing make this a fine rendition of "Time After Time."
"Next Door Blues" has a rather lush arrangement and it all holds its own very well; and listen for Harry to outdo even himself on "Easy to Love." "Easy to Love" is very elegant and it's another major highlight of this album. Of course, "There's No Business like Show Business" is quite strong and memorable also in Harry's capable hands! "There's No Business like Show Business" shines brighter than silver and gold when Harry injects this with his own style and genuine emotion; I love Harry Connick Jr.'s rendition of this timeless ballad.
"Danny Boy" is very well done; and I really like "Cry Me a River" with its New Orleans influenced musical arrangement--this is yet another gem on this album and it's worth the price of admission all by itself! The CD ends well, too, with Harry Connick, Jr. performing "Love for Sale." "Love for Sale" gets a spirited arrangement and it leaves me wanting to just push play to listen to this CD all over again!
Harry Connick Jr.'s talent makes "Come by Me" a remarkably fine and very special album that all of Harry's fans should add to their collections. People who are just getting into the artistry of Harry Connick, Jr. would do well to get this, too.
Good old Harry
2008-06-05 - This is a great cd. Even my 2 and 5 year olds loves it!!!
variety of style!!!
2008-03-30 - This cd is wonderfully varied in style...fast exciting jazz or slow
mornful tunes...Harry has shown off his range and that of his band.
Each listen brings new fondness of this work...
Schizophrenic 
2007-06-04 - A musical prodigy who studied with Ellis Marsalis and James Booker, Connick soared to fame in 1989 when movie director Rob Reiner tapped the singer-pianist to record a standards soundtrack for the romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally. Connick's fresh take on "It Had to Be You," "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," and "Where or When" drew comparisons to the young Sinatra during his years with Tommy Dorsey. After composing and performing a promising album of big-band melodies, We Are in Love (1990), by decade's end Connick recorded Come by Me, a much more mature and ambitious work.
However, it's also a more uneven work. Come by Me is simultaneously Connick's best and worst album. To fully enjoy it, it's best to have an Ampex reel-to-reel tape deck, a good pair of demagnetized scissors, and lots of splicing tape.
Connick begins with a great title track, a composition from his own pen that starts off jaunty with a small combo and builds to full-out big-band swing. Come by Me shows him at his most innovative: great romantic lyrics set to a rousing and robust arrangement. He follows up with an off-the-beat version of Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer's "Charade," which captures the simultaneous thrill and despair of the original.
After that, though, the album just falls apart. He opens a high-swinging "Time After Time" with a gratuitous, heavy-handed interlude that tries hard (but fails) to sound like Thelonious Monk, is longer than the song itself, and finally propels me to the kitchen to microwave a TV dinner. His "Danny Boy" is so slow and overwrought that it makes Chopin's "Funeral Sonata" sound like the "Minute Waltz." There's a ridiculous instrumental, "Next Door Blues," that tries to blend Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington with jazz/funk fusion. It comes off as tasty as a peanut-butter-and-mustard sandwich.
Connick's music is the standards sent to finishing school. Yet great jazz doesn't come from music theory class, but rather from the school of hard knocks. The other problem with Connick's more recent work is that he seems to have bought all the marketing hype about his being "the next Frank Sinatra." Perhaps when he discovers that he's the first Harry Connick, Jr., his music will fulfill the promise of his early efforts.
Swings.
2007-01-10 - One reviewer (Josh Feldman) believes that Coltrane, Miles, and Monk have some sort of universal license on "jazz". Never mind all that came before them!
This album really swings. On "Love For Sale" and "Time After Time", you will hear not just another singer, but the sort of signature expression we've come to expect from Harry Connick Jr. I highly recommend this recording to anyone who enjoys this genre of music!
