Track Listing
1. Moments to Remember
2. It's All in the Game
3. Unchained Melody
4. Venus
5. It's Not For Me to Say
6. Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
7. Rags to Riches
8. Teach Me Tonight / Sincerely
9. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
10. Young at Heart
11. All I Have to Do Is Dream
12. What a Difference a Day Makes
13. Beyond the Sea
14. I Made It Through the Rain - (Bonus Track)
15. Best Seat in the House - (Bonus Track)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | The Association | | Distributor: | MSI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This is a DualDisc, which contains a CD on one side of the disc and a DVD on the other.
A significant album for Barry Manilow, THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE FIFTIES finds the Brooklyn-born crooner taking on tunes that were popular in his youth. This 2006 outing also marks Manilow's return to his former label, Arista, with the company's founder, Clive Davis, setting the singer up with 1950s pop classics much in the way that the savvy businessman steered Rod Stewart in the direction of jazzy standards.
The result is a light, breezy affair that showcases Manilow's easy-going charm, as revealed on his gentle versions of the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody" and the Everly Brothers' "All I Have to Do Is Dream." Wisely avoiding over-the-top arrangements, this record presents a lush, restrained sound that allows Manilow's velvety voice to shine, making it one of the performer's finest studio albums in decades.
A companion piece to the similarly self-explanatory GREATEST SONGS OF THE FIFTIES, GREATEST SONGS OF THE SIXTIES finds Barry Manilow tackling the pop songbook of the decade just prior to the one he helped define. Smartly relying on the Bacharach/David songbook, Manilow picked a solid set of familiar adult-contemporary tunes that fit his own increasingly jazzy and ballad-oriented style. Although a medley of the Association's big hits "Cherish" and "Windy" features the surviving members harmonizing behind Manilow's lead, it's an otherwise solo show, and Manilow is in fine voice throughout.
DVD Features:
Video side contains:
01. Moments To Remember
02. All In The Game
03. Unchained Melody
04. Venus
05. It's Not For Me To Say
06. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
07. Rags To Riches
08. Sincerely/Teach Me Tonight
09. Are You Lonesome Tonight
10. Young At Heart
11. All I Have To Do Is Dream
12. What A Difference A Day Makes
13. Somewhere Beyond The Sea
14. I Made It Through The Rain
15. Best Seat In The House
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