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Latin for Lovers/Love Him |
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| Name: | Latin for Lovers/Love Him | |
| Artist: | Doris Day |
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| Styles: |
Easy Listening - Vocal |
| Media: |
Audio CD |
| Release Date: |
3 August 1995 |
| Label: |
Columbia |
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| UPC Catalogue No: |
5099748101822 |
| Amazon Sales Ranking: |
24920 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Description |
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This CD collects two Doris Day albums of wildly different styles--Latin For Lovers and Love Him--as well as two extra bonus tracks--"Moonlight Lover" and "Whisper Away". Latin For Lovers, recorded in 1964, is a collection of popular songs given new zest by softly swaying bossa nova rhythms. Day's warm and tender voice softly caresses the compositions of Antonio Carlos Jobim--"Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars", "Meditation" and "How Insensitive". Its not all bossa nova, though: the tango is the vehicle for Doris' urgent singing of "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps", while on "Dansero" and "Por Favor", Doris cha-chas. Love Him, recorded in 1963, is a far more sentimental affair. Each song is presented as a single act play, conjuring a new atmosphere. She can be meltingly tender ("Can't Help Falling In Love"), scorchingly torchy ("Since I Fell For You"), just plain sweet ("More") or sadly wise ("Love Him"). --F.B.Hawkes |
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Tracks |
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| 1 |
Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcavado) |
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Fly Me to the Moon |
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Meditation |
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Dansero |
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Summer Has Gone |
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How Insensitive (Insensataez) |
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Slightly Out of Tune (Desifinado) |
| 8 |
Our Day Will Come |
| 9 |
Be True to Me (Savor a Mi) |
| 10 |
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Quizas, Quizas, Quizas) |
| 11 |
Be Mine Tonight (Noche de Ronda) |
| 12 |
Por Favor |
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More (Theme from the Film Mondo Cane) |
| 14 |
Can't Help Falling in Love |
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Since I Fell for You |
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Losing You |
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(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I |
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As Long as He Needs Me {from the Musical Production Oliver!} |
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Night Life |
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Funny |
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Softly, as I Leave You |
| 22 |
Lollipops and Roses |
| 23 |
Love Him |
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Moonlight Lover |
| 25 |
Whisper Away |
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Customer Reviews |
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Two excellent albums plus rare bonus tracks |
Rating: 5.0 |
The album that makes up the first half of this twofer, Latin for lovers, features a mix of standards and songs of Latin origin, all given a gentle bossa nova rhythm. On Be mine tonight, Doris actually sings a verse in Spanish – the only time she ever did that. Of the standards, Fly me to the moon and Our day will come are the best known. One of the Latin songs, Perhaps perhaps perhaps (a translation of Quizas quizas quizas) became popular in the UK as a consequence of its use in a TV commercial. This is an excellent album that sets its own mood. The album that makes up the second half of this twofer, Love him, is dominated by ballads, all superbly sung by Doris. The songs come from a variety of source, including lovely covers of Elvis Presley’s Can’t help falling in love and Fool such as I (although the latter was originally a Hank Snow country song). There is also an amazing cover of Willie Nelson’s Night life, which has been given a very dramatic scene-setting intro that Willie never envisaged. It works well and once you get past the intro, the song sounds exactly as you would expect it to. Several other songs will be familiar to those who know the music of the fifties and sixties. Two rare bonus tracks, Moonlight lover and A whisper away, have been added to make this even more desirable than it was anyway. |
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The last recordings of Doris Day |
Rating: 5.0 |
Two albums on one C.D.Her last and in my opinion her best. Listen to 'Perhaps'.Listen to 'Summer is gone'. Listen to 'How Insensitive'. I could go on. The voice is silky and clear. The balance on the recording is excellant and I don't think Doris Day has ever sounded better. Why did she stop recording after this? |
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