Many thought that pop balladeer Michael Bolton's personal transformation ended when he lopped off his shoulder-length hair and released 1998's My Secret Passion, an album of operatic arias. But his first record of new material in four years shows that the boomer pinup boy has continued his metamorphosis. Signed to Jive Records, the label that spawned the careers of Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys, Bolton enlists the services of Swedish pop Svengali Max Martin, the man who penned Spears's "Oops!... I Did It Again" and the Backstreet Boys' "Shape of My Heart." Superstar producer Mutt Lange wrote the title track and manned the boards, while Lange's spouse, Shania Twain, and Richard Marx made writing contributions. As a result, Bolton has ended up with a pop confection that could top a cake. Ardent, heartfelt, and as transparent as a bride's peignoir, Only a Woman Like You for the most part shows the singer at his very best. Like a hero lifted out of the pages of a Harlequin romance novel, Bolton whispers sweet nothings with every breath he takes. While most of the album sticks tight to a tried-and-true formula of impassioned protestations of undying devotion, Bolton takes a left turn into the boy-band zone with the Latin-tinged "Dance with Me," sounding like an aging Backstreet Boy backed by breaks and rhythms that just beg to be choreographed. Similarly, the misbegotten "I Wanna Hear You Say It" and "This Is the Way" do Bolton's considerable gifts a disservice. --Jaan Uhelszki
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Only a Woman Like You
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Only a Woman Like You
Michael Bolton Manufacturer: Jive ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000640LL Release Date: 2002-04-23 |
Tracks:
- Dance With Me
- I Wanna Hear You Say It
- Only A Woman Like You
- All That You Deserve
- Love With My Eyes Closed
- To Feel Again
- The Center Of My Heart
- This Is The Way
- Simply
- Slowly
- I Surrender
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Many thought that pop balladeer Michael Bolton's personal transformation ended when he lopped off his shoulder-length hair and released 1998's My Secret Passion, an album of operatic arias. But his first record of new material in four years shows that the boomer pinup boy has continued his metamorphosis. Signed to Jive Records, the label that spawned the careers of Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys, Bolton enlists the services of Swedish pop Svengali Max Martin, the man who penned Spears's "Oops!... I Did It Again" and the Backstreet Boys' "Shape of My Heart." Superstar producer Mutt Lange wrote the title track and manned the boards, while Lange's spouse, Shania Twain, and Richard Marx made writing contributions. As a result, Bolton has ended up with a pop confection that could top a cake. Ardent, heartfelt, and as transparent as a bride's peignoir, Only a Woman Like You for the most part shows the singer at his very best. Like a hero lifted out of the pages of a Harlequin romance novel, Bolton whispers sweet nothings with every breath he takes. While most of the album sticks tight to a tried-and-true formula of impassioned protestations of undying devotion, Bolton takes a left turn into the boy-band zone with the Latin-tinged "Dance with Me," sounding like an aging Backstreet Boy backed by breaks and rhythms that just beg to be choreographed. Similarly, the misbegotten "I Wanna Hear You Say It" and "This Is the Way" do Bolton's considerable gifts a disservice. --Jaan UhelszkiCustomer Reviews:
4 years later........2006-09-30
A Fair Effort.......2005-11-19
I had some vague notion of a performer in the tradition of Humperdinck or Tom Jones and, in a more modern sort of way, I suppose he is but he is different too. He is more modern with instrumentation and rhythms more in tune with modern music than the big band style arrangements of the past. His voice does not seem as suited to be a solo instrument but carries his tune well enough though it is a bit harsh (perhaps too harsh a term) to my ears.
The songs are mostly loves songs. They are nice and pleasant to listen to but I found nothing utterly memorable.
I will give him another try sometime but fell no urgency in it.
Mainstream!?so what!!!.......2005-03-25
I'm from The Netherlands and although he's not as famous here as in the rest of the world,his music is very much respected,not only by music buyers but also by Ducth recording artists,for example RENE FROGER wich is one of Hollands best selling singers recorded two Bolton tracks on his 1990 album "Midnight Man" the songs were "I almost believed you" and specialy written by Bolton for Froger "Am i dreaming" . But i now understand why some people in the states react this way about Bolton,its the same here in Holland with Rene Froger,they are very main stream and sold a lot of records and sell out major concerts,we'll i don't mind because i'm as mainstream as every other normal Dutch,American,German or where ever guy,i'm a security guard,i watch Stallone movies,i drive a Nissan,and i like prime time sitcoms and i also like to play Michael Bolton cd's on my Sony cd player in my average appartment.
And all i want to say to those who find that's boring is:
"SO I'M MAINSTREAM! SO WHAT!!!!
Ps:Great cd Michael!
What a shock!.......2005-03-13
Loved the songs he did with Max Martin! Good album!.......2004-06-15
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A Room With a View: Complete Recordings, Vol.1
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000054BF6 Release Date: 2001-04-17 |
Tracks:
- This Year Of Grace: Dance, Little Lady
- This Year Of Grace: A Room With A View
- This Year Of Grace: Mary Make-Believe
- This Year Of Grace: Try To Learn To Love
- This Year Of Grace: Lorelei
- A Dream Of Youth (The Dream Is Over)
- Bitter Sweet: Zigeuner
- This Year Of Grace: World Weary
- Private Lives, Act 1, Love Scene: Someday I'll Find You
- Private Lives, Act 2, Scene: I Never Realised/If You Were The Only Girl In The World
- Half-Caste Woman
- Any Little Fish
- Cavalcade: Lover Of My Dreams (Mirabelle Valse)
- Cavalcade Vocal Medley: Soldiers Of The Queen/Goodbye Dolly Gray/Lover Of My Dreams/I Do Like To...
- Cavalcade, Epilogue: Toast To England
- Noel Coward Medley: Parisian Pierrot/Poor Little Rich Girl/A Room With A View/Dance Little Lady...
Customer Reviews:
The style is the man--and the song.......2001-05-02
Add to all this two classical scenes with Coward and co-star Gertrude Lawrence from his "Private Lives," incredibly valuable for those local drama groups who butcher this work in that this CD can teach them the tone and rhythms that are essential in making this classic succeed.
The subtitle of this set is "The Complete Recordings, Volume 1: 1928-1932." So we can look forward to future offerings featuring this fascinating composer-lyricist-performer. Thank you, Naxos, yet again.
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Purcell: Theatre Music
Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001Y4JHA Release Date: 2004-10-12 |
Customer Reviews:
Fine reissue of a classic set.......2006-05-24
This set originally appeared as separate LPs in the 70s and 80s, and has been long out of print. That's a pity, since Purcell spent a good deal of his short professional life in the theatre, either writing the incidental music contained on these CDs, or the music for his larger works, the semi-operas (King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, and the like). Almost all of these works are enjoyable gems; certainly, they represent a pinnacle of English 17th century music. Purcell had a genius for spinning musical gold out of the most leaden lyrics (check out his Odes and Welcome Songs on Hyperion if you don't believe me), and he does the same with the song texts in these plays.
Hogwood and the AAM offer clean, listenable performances, and the sound on these old analog discs has been cleaned up and brightened--although they were pretty good, even in the late 70s. As with most Hogwood, emotional extremes are kept to a minimum, so the "otherworldly" nature of late 17th century music, so often emphasised in more recent Baroque performances, doesn't come across here. It would be interesting to see what a group like The King's Consort would do with this music, but this set fills the major gap in the Purcell canon quite nicely.
My only beef with the reissue, as with many reissues, is that the liner notes are rather thin for a 6-cd set--the lyrics to the songs, for example, are especially missed. Still, it's a worthwhile set, and a must for fans of Purcell, English Baroque music, or anyone who just wants to experience a taste of the last days of the Restoration stage.
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Onward Victoria (1981 Original Cast Members)
Book Charlotte Anker & Irene Rosenberg Manufacturer: Original Cast Record ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000004CPM Release Date: 2003-06-17 |
Tracks:
- Overture
- In New York the Only Sin Is Being Timid - Beth Austin, Jill Eikenberry
- Magnetic Healing - Beth Austin, Jill Eikenberry, Lenny Wolpe
- Taste of Forever - Jill Eikenberry
- I Depend on You - Beth Austin, Jill Eikenberry
- Onward Victoria - Beth Austin, Jill Eikenberry
- Changes - Jill Eikenberry
- Woman Like Beth - Michael Zaslow
- Unescorted Women - Beth Austin, Jill Eikenberry, Lenny Wolpe
- Love and Joy - Jill Eikenberry, Michael Zaslow
- Everyday I Do a Little Something for the Lord
- You Cannot Drown the Dream - Jill Eikenberry, Laura Waterbury
- Respectable - Beth Austin
- Another Life - Jill Eikenberry
- Read It in the Weekly - Jill Eikenberry
- Valentine for Beecher
- Beecher's Defense - Jill Eikenberry
- Finale - Beth Austin, Jill Eikenberry, Michael Zaslow
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JILL EICHENBERRY ASTOUNDS IN THIS VERY MUSICAL BROADWAY DISASTER . . . . .......2006-12-26
After three weeks of previews, ONWARD VICTORIA opened (and closed) at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 14, 1980. Eight months later, members of the original cast gathered at RCA Studios in New York to record the show. I, for one, am extremely grateful that they did and am indebted to Original Cast Records for its remastered 1994 CD release. Usually in agreement with John Kendrick, I do not find the score "lifeless." Rather, I find it refreshing and inventive; an "old-fashioned" Broadway score in the very best sense of the term.
Economic reality has extracted a heavy toll from the Broadway musical, primarily in the number of singers and dancers employed and the size and quality of the orchestra. String sections have been replaced by synthesizers; a crack dance corps and a separate big-voiced chorus have given way to 16 or fewer singer/dancers who do neither as well as they did in the good old days; the overture has all but disappeared; excellence has been replaced by ordinary. Not the case with ONWARD VICTORIA.
Just give a listen to the excellent vocal writing and choral work in the opening number "In New York The Only Sin Is Being Timid" (listed as "The Age of Brass" on opening night), Victoria's campaign song "Onward Victoria" (or, "Victoria's Banner"), "You Cannot Drown the Dream," and the hymn-parody "A Valentine for Beecher;" and the stand-up-and-cheer second act finale. Incidentally, are those Bach-trumpets I hear in "Valentine?" Maybe the book was humorless, but catch the references to incest as per Sophocles in "Something for the Lord," artfully sung by Jim Jansen, and this line - and others - from "Beecher's Defense": "Plymouth Church should be proud to have a preacher so endowed." Not all the lyrics are as inspired as these ("Love and Joy" is a case in point), but even Oscar Hammerstein, II, penned a few clinkers. How about this gem from SOUND OF MUSIC: "You need someone older and wiser telling you what to do-ooh. I am 17 going on 18. I'll take care of you."
The cast is uniformly excellent, but Jill Eikenberry is a revelation! Known primarily as "Ann Kelsey" on TVs "LA Law" (153 episodes, 1986-1994), she reveals herself as a fine singer-actress in the role of Victoria Woodhull, a feminist who, decades before women won the right to vote, was the Equal Rights Party candidate for President, running against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant. In addition to her campaign-style numbers, Ms. Eikenberry gives us two lovely, character-building ballads, "I've Had a Taste of Forever" & "Another Life." Beth Austin, as Woodhull's sister Tennie Clafin, joins Victoria in "Magnetic Healing" & "I Depend on You" and gets her chance to shine in the big, brassy, show-stopping "Respectable." Lenny Wolpe (Feldzieg in THE DROWSY CHAPERONE), as restaurateur Charlie Delmonico, has a great time with "Unescorted Women;" Jim Jansen (Post Office prosecutor Anthony Comstock) gleefully reveals "Every Day I Do a Little Something for the Lord;" Michael Zaslow (Henry Ward Beecher, charismatic preacher of Brooklyn's Plymouth Church) explains away his wife's infidelity with "A Woman Like Beth" and joins Victoria in "Love and Joy," the only number that, in my opinion, doesn't succeed.
A "lifeless score?" I think not. Rather, a delightful score that transcends its appallingly bad book. (See also WHOOP-UP, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE, et. al.) Without a complete rewrite of the book, it's doubtful that ONWARD VICTORIA will ever again find its way onto the stage, so let's be grateful that this fine recording, with members of the original Broadway cast, is here for us to enjoy.
Highly recommended.
Melodies for a change - Thank God!.......2002-12-13
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Only a Woman Like You
Michael Bolton Manufacturer: Bmg/Jive ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000063TH3 |
Tracks:
- Dance With Me
- I Wanna Hear You Say It
- Only a Woman Like You
- All That You Deserve
- Love With My Eyes Closed
- To Feel Again
- Center of My Heart
- This Is the Way
- Simply
- Slowly
- I Surrender
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Only a Woman Like You / As / Eternally
Michael Bolton Manufacturer: Jive Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000063UN7 Release Date: 2002-05-07 |
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Only a Woman Like You
Michael Bolton Manufacturer: Jive Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000063CKU Release Date: 2002-10-15 |
Tracks:
- Dance With Me
- I Wanna Hear You Say It
- Only a Woman Like You
- All That You Deserve
- Love With My Eyes Closed
- To Feel Again
- Center of My Heart
- This Is the Way
- Simply
- Slowly
- I Surrender
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what i think about the CD.......2002-06-19
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Heart Rock: 40 Great Love Songs [Time-life Music]
Various Artists 1. Take My Breath Away -- Berlin 2. Joanna -- Kool & The Gang 3. Total Eclipse Of The Heart -- Bonnie Tyler 4. A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do) -- Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio 5. In Too Deep -- Genesis , Use Ta Be My Girl -- The O'Jays 7. All By Myself -- Eric Carmen 8. I Can Dream About You -- Dan Hartman 9. Still -- Commodores , Jr With Bill Withers 11. Sexual Healing -- Marvin Gaye 12. Just Remember I Love You -- Firefall Just The Two Of Us -- Grover Washington , Too Little, Too Late -- Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams 16. Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me -- Gladys Knight & The Pips Even The Nights Are Better -- Air Supply 14. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me -- Culture Club 15. Too Much , Shake You Down -- Gregory Abbott 18. Being With You -- Smokey Robinson 19. I'd Really Love To See You Tonigh -- England Dan & John Ford Coley , 1. Minute By Minute -- The Doobie Brothers 2. Time After Time -- Cyndi Lauper 3. Almost Paradise...Love Theme From Footloose -- Ann Wilson & Mike Reno 4. Lotta Love -- Nicolette Larson 5. I'm In You -- Peter Frampton , 6. Run To Me -- Dionne Warwick & Barry Manilow 7. Endless Love -- Diana Ross & Lionel Richie 8. Secret Lovers -- Atlantic Starr 9. After The Love Has Gone -- Earth Wind & Fire 10. Torn Between Two Lovers -- Mary MacGregor , 11. Can't We Try -- Dan Hill With Vonda Sheppard 12. One Hundred Ways -- Quincy Jones Featuring James Ingram 13. L-O-V-E (Love) -- Al Green 14. You're Only Lonely -- John David Souther , 15. All Cried Out -- Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam 16. You're All I Need To Get By -- Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 17. Keep On Loving You -- REO Speedwagon , and 18. I Go Crazy -- Paul Davis 19. Open Arms -- Journey 20. Hold Me Now -- The Thompson Twins 21. You Are So Beautiful -- Joe Cocker Manufacturer: Time Life ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000MI5EOM |
Product Description
Heart Rock (Disc A) Label: Time-Life Music Year: 1988 Track Title 1. Take My Breath Away -- Berlin 2. Joanna -- Kool & The Gang 3. Total Eclipse Of The Heart -- Bonnie Tyler 4. A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do) -- Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio 5. In Too Deep -- Genesis 6. Use Ta Be My Girl -- The O'Jays 7. All By Myself -- Eric Carmen 8. I Can Dream About You -- Dan Hartman 9. Still -- Commodores 10. Just The Two Of Us -- Grover Washington,Jr With Bill Withers 11. Sexual Healing -- Marvin Gaye 12. Just Remember I Love You -- Firefall 13. Even The Nights Are Better -- Air Supply 14. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me -- Culture Club 15. Too Much, Too Little, Too Late -- Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams 16. Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me -- Gladys Knight & The Pips 17. Shake You Down -- Gregory Abbott 18. Being With You -- Smokey Robinson 19. I'd Really Love To See You Tonigh -- England Dan & John Ford Coley ---==== Heart Rock (Disc B) Label: Time-Life Music Year: 1988 Track Title 1. Minute By Minute -- The Doobie Brothers 2. Time After Time -- Cyndi Lauper 3. Almost Paradise...Love Theme From Footloose -- Ann Wilson & Mike Reno 4. Lotta Love -- Nicolette Larson 5. I'm In You -- Peter Frampton 6. Run To Me -- Dionne Warwick & Barry Manilow 7. Endless Love -- Diana Ross & Lionel Richie 8. Secret Lovers -- Atlantic Starr 9. After The Love Has Gone -- Earth Wind & Fire 10. Torn Between Two Lovers -- Mary MacGregor 11. Can't We Try -- Dan Hill With Vonda Sheppard 12. One Hundred Ways -- Quincy Jones Featuring James Ingram 13. L-O-V-E (Love) -- Al Green 14. You're Only Lonely -- John David Souther 15. All Cried Out -- Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam 16. You're All I Need To Get By -- Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 17. Keep On Loving You -- REO Speedwagon 18. I Go Crazy -- Paul Davis 19. Open Arms -- Journey 20. Hold Me Now -- The Thompson Twins 21. You Are So Beautiful -- Joe CockerCustomer Reviews:
TRACK LIST.......2007-01-08
Label: Time-Life Music
Year: 1988
Track Title
1. Take My Breath Away -- Berlin
2. Joanna -- Kool & The Gang
3. Total Eclipse Of The Heart -- Bonnie Tyler
4. A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do) -- Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio
5. In Too Deep -- Genesis
6. Use Ta Be My Girl -- The O'Jays
7. All By Myself -- Eric Carmen
8. I Can Dream About You -- Dan Hartman
9. Still -- Commodores
10. Just The Two Of Us -- Grover Washington,Jr With Bill Withers
11. Sexual Healing -- Marvin Gaye
12. Just Remember I Love You -- Firefall
13. Even The Nights Are Better -- Air Supply
14. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me -- Culture Club
15. Too Much, Too Little, Too Late -- Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
16. Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me -- Gladys Knight & The Pips
17. Shake You Down -- Gregory Abbott
18. Being With You -- Smokey Robinson
19. I'd Really Love To See You Tonigh -- England Dan & John Ford Coley
Heart Rock (Disc B)
Label: Time-Life Music
Year: 1988
Track Title
1. Minute By Minute -- The Doobie Brothers
2. Time After Time -- Cyndi Lauper
3. Almost Paradise...Love Theme From Footloose -- Ann Wilson & Mike Reno
4. Lotta Love -- Nicolette Larson
5. I'm In You -- Peter Frampton
6. Run To Me -- Dionne Warwick & Barry Manilow
7. Endless Love -- Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
8. Secret Lovers -- Atlantic Starr
9. After The Love Has Gone -- Earth Wind & Fire
10. Torn Between Two Lovers -- Mary MacGregor
11. Can't We Try -- Dan Hill With Vonda Sheppard
12. One Hundred Ways -- Quincy Jones Featuring James Ingram
13. L-O-V-E (Love) -- Al Green
14. You're Only Lonely -- John David Souther
15. All Cried Out -- Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
16. You're All I Need To Get By -- Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
17. Keep On Loving You -- REO Speedwagon
18. I Go Crazy -- Paul Davis
19. Open Arms -- Journey
20. Hold Me Now -- The Thompson Twins
21. You Are So Beautiful -- Joe Cocker
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Only a Woman Like You
Michael Bolton Manufacturer: Japanese Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00006JM75 Release Date: 2003-03-05 |
Album Details
Asian Version featuring a Bonus Video CD with Four Videos: "Only a Woman Like You", "Dance with Me", "All that You Deserve", and "i Wanna Hear You Say It".Customer Reviews:
Best of Bolton.......2003-09-03
Bolton Cd!!!.......2002-10-12
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Best of Broadway
Manufacturer: Intersound Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000DUNW Release Date: 1996-03-04 |
Rap Music:
- Open
- Passenger
- Punk Goes Acoustic
- Resolution
- Rhythm of Time [Enhanced]
- Scheherazade & Other Stories [Import]
- Sea Fever
- Sonic Jihad [Enhanced] [Explicit Lyrics]
- Streetlights [Original recording remastered]
- Sumday [Enhanced]
Recommended Music:
Ross Allen: Meltdown [Limited Edition] [Import]
The Listen to the Band Collection: Stage and Screen Gems
The Testament [Enhanced] [Explicit Lyrics]
Traveling Light: Songs from the 23rd Psalm
Tribute to Andrew Imbrie on His 80th Birthday
The Quintessence: New York to Chicago to Hollywood 1928-1943 [Live]