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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Lava
Salesrank: 33276
Released: January 25, 2005 |
| Our Price: $5.94 |
| Used Price: $1.97 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Everlasting Love Track Listing:
1. Tuning
2. Never Say Goodbye
3. Midnight Blue
4. Show and Tell
5. Let's Love
6. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
7. Everlasting Love
8. With You I'm Born Again
9. Send One Your Love
10. You Are Everything
11. One Less Bell to Answer
12. I'll Be Good To You
13. Harvest for the World
14. Today and Everyday
Editorial Review:
Throughout her illustrious career, Vanessa Williams has maintained a reputation as one of the most respected as one of the most respected and multifaceted entertainers in the world amassing accomplishments and accolates one after another. Vanessa fans can bask in the warmth of the Valentine's Day spirit with Everlasting Love, a collection of '70s love song covers.
Everlasting Love Reviews:
An okay album 
2007-01-09 - Sorry, but I have to disagree with most of the reviewers on this disc. I love Vanessa Williams, and I especially loved her "Sweetest Days" album (my favorite of hers), but this one is just okay.
I bought this about a year ago, and just got around to opening it and putting it in my disc player for my alarm (I had Luther in there for a long time). I can barely keep my eyes open when this music comes on, because it is so tepid. She has a great voice, but she interjects absolutely no emotion into these songs. It irks me, because it could have been so much better than it is. She picked great songs to cover, but they are songs that need life breathed into them, not songs that should just be song note for note, which is pretty much what is going on here.
If Vanessa was a verb... 
2006-03-14 - ... It would be one to express how good this album is!!! I'm a huge fan of this lady, not because she is beutiful and stuff like that (I'm a woman too. So I prefers boys), but because she sings like an angel!!! And I was expecting a new album for so long when she released this one... What I did not expect was the inteligent choices for songs. Til this day I can't even choose my fave ones, cause I loved the whole album.
She put some class and some new sounds to well known and aproved music. Really great!!! Many artists are doing this revival albuns, and this one I would recomend to people that are embracing this wave. Vanessa put her classy stile to this, and made the music sound new, cool and good to hear whatever the moment.
JulyN
Very good @}->---
2006-01-23 - I don't usually like cover albums where people often end up hashing classic hits. This however is very different because there is no way that Vanessa Williams, with her beautifully smooth voice could ruin a former hit. These are sung with warmth and soul and she does an excellent job. The only song I don't like is With You I'm Born Again - but then again, it's the song, not her. Every other song on here is fantastic and I really recommend this to anyone who seeks a bit of nostalgia, and well done remakes of old school, classic music. PS. Isn't she stunning?
THE BEST COVER CD
2005-12-10 - This is the best cd of "covers" I have ever heard, and I have quite a few now. The feeling she conveys in each song lets you know these are some of her favorites, and her range is unbeatable. So good, I bought 2 copies, just in case someone "borrows" one!
Everlasting Love - actually 4.5 stars 
2005-12-03 - The thing that I love about cover discs is the chance to hear a new spin on familiar songs by different artists. I'm so glad that Vanessa hasn't been pushed out of the record biz and feel that this collection is one of the best that I purchased this year! As a fan of her previous discs, I know that Vanessa is a classy singer who successfully mixes r&b with jazz giving her music a unique sound (her vocal phrasing is also consistent and a hallmark of her work).
Now when I saw the track list, 3 songs immediately jumped out to me: THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE, EVERLASTING LOVE & WITH YOU I'M BORN AGAIN. These are not only three of my favorite songs of all time but were performed by women who I frankly, didn't think Vanessa could touch (ie compete with) vocally: Roberta Flack, Chaka Khan & Syreeta Wright.
The addition of instruments on TFTEISYF make the song sound richer than the spare masterpiece original; Vanessa's duet of WYIBA with George Benson is faithful to the original and of course, Vanessa doesn't have the soaring soprano vocals of Syreeta, but she definitely sounds great on this track. Finally, the cover of EL is AMAZING - I don't think that many female vocalists can outdo Chaka but Vanessa put her foot down on this one and sounds terrific! The arrangement & her vocals rival the original. These are definitely 3 of my favorite tracks on the disc.
Other standouts are: MIDNIGHT BLUE, NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE, LET'S LOVE, SHOW & TELL & I'LL BE GOOD TO YOU. The bonus track, TODAY & FOREVER is based on a poem written to Vanessa from her ex and it is a poignant tune in which she is truly expressing a desire for them to work to put their marriage back together.
I also enjoyed the jazzed up versions of HARVEST FOR THE WORLD & SEND ONE YOUR LOVE.
Bravo, Vanessa for producing such an enjoyable collection of music while going through a painful split.
