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Awsome cd!!!Great Cd. It's rare to find those motown greats singing other peoples music. It is all of your favorite bacharach/david hits, funked up with the motown style. I think this is the perfect cd for anyone who likes motown and also bacharach/david.
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Motown puts on a tuxMotown always had an eye on the lucrative cabaret market and most of their top acts recorded a few lushly-scored standards amongst the more teen dance-oriented fare. For this collection of previously-available material, Universal has swept through the Motown back-catalogue and come up with 18 Burt Bacharach/Hal David compositions.The album kicks off with Gladys Knight's version of The Look Of Love, first recorded by Dionne Warwick, as with so many Bacharach songs, but best known by Dusty Sprin…
Motown always had an eye on the lucrative cabaret market and most of their top acts recorded a few lushly-scored standards amongst the more teen dance-oriented fare. For this collection of previously-available material, Universal has swept through the Motown back-catalogue and come up with 18 Burt Bacharach/Hal David compositions.The album kicks off with Gladys Knight's version of The Look Of Love, first recorded by Dionne Warwick, as with so many Bacharach songs, but best known by Dusty Springfield from the film Casino Royale. It ends with Stephanie Mills' 1975 funky revival of This Empty Place. Most of the selections are readily available, but a few are not in print elsewhere, such as the Marvelettes' great rendition of Message To Michael.In most other cases, the songs are the stars, rather than the artists, and one can only marvel again at the talents of the songwriters.Stevie Wonder's instrumental versions of Alfie and A House Is Not A Home are rather schmaltzy, but the least effective recording on this album is Do You Know The Way To San José, culled from a live TV special. It takes the combined forces of the Supremes and the Temptations to provide a snatch of the song which fizzles out after barely one minute.This is Motown in a tux, not at its best but a fascinating stroll down its side roads.
Written by Laurence Upton
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format: number: title: number name artist hh:mm:ss 1The Look of Love3:542I Say a Little Prayer3:063This Guy's in Love With You4:514I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself2:295Message to Michael3:086Any Day Now5:017Alfie3:138Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head3:349What the World Needs Now Is Love6:2110Let the Music Play2:3911(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me3:0312One Less Bell to Answer3:0813Do You Know the Way to San José?1:1414Anyone Who Had a Heart3:5515A House Is Not a Home3:2916Close to You3:4317Walk on By2:4618This Empty Place3:09
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