Linda Eder - Soundtrack
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Artist: Linda EderEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-10-13
Music Label: Verve
Soundtracks:
- I Will Wait For You
- Accidentally In Love
- Falling Slowly
- Against All Odds
- Charade
- If I Can't Have You
- Help
- Can't Help Falling In Love
- Everybody's Talking
- Valley Of The Dolls
- Everything I Do (I Do It For You)
Music reviews of Soundtrack
Music Review: Superb cohesive set but way too short
Rating: 4 Stars
Linda Eder is an amazing vocalist in regards to her amazing range and emotional ability to interpret a song. Many know her as a broadway star who has moved on to a very succesful recording career. She has recorded some very eclectic pop albums that showed her true versatility and her last THE OTHER SIDE OF ME was a very mature and adult pop cd of amazing depth. But it does seem that concept works are what Linda loves best. She did the Broadway tribute cd, the Judy Garland tribute cd and now the movie songs project.
I must say again that Linda is a very rare and unique vocal stylist in this modern day of music. She can belt like the best of them and when she sang DON'T RAIN ON MY PARADE on the broadway cd she rivals Barbra Streisand and even has a similar tone while totally making it her own. It is obvious music is in her blood. Whatever she sings her vocals soar over ranges and her emotive ability ligers sweetly and softly over every note. Some other reviewers here have dissed Linda's vocals on this cd. I can't do that. It is obvious in this project that she chose what seem like random songs from decades of the movies and sings them in a simple, plaintive style that wrings the heartstring. But each song fits together and a story is told about love that will touch the listener deeply. Her heart is in this one.
But I do have a problem with Linda Eder in the fact that this cd is only 39 minutes long. Everyone knows a cd has the capacity to hold 80 minutes of music and I certainly am not saying I wish there was nonsense filler music on this cd but when she approached this project it feels like she did it half heartedly for she didn't even use up half the time allotted on a cd. Her musical journey could have been so much more expressive. I love the songs on this cd and love the quiter, more emotive Eder voice. I WILL WAIT FOR YOU is the perfect beginning. ACCIDENTALLY IN LOVE and FALLING SLOWLY are musical gems. Now at the halfway point we have 3 tracks - 2 stand out for me CHARADE and HELP. You feel at this point as if you are on a musical journey and it is splendid. Sadly after this there are only 4 more songs and then the cd ends. Second to last we have the amazing vocal of VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. But rather than build on this exsquite highlight Linda merely adds only 1 more track (EVERYTHING I DO) I DO FOR YOU. Also, many think of VALLEY OF THE DOLLS as a downer and adding some more uptempo tracks here could have left the impact of the track and allowed listeners to move on emotionally. Every time I play this cd I feel that the emotional payoff is wasted and the cd just ends. Also, for what music and cds cost today I think that fans are worthy of an artist putting in the effort to provide high quality and not just provide a short list of tracks. I feel the fans were short changed here.
I adore Linda Eder and think she is blessed vocally and was thrilled when hearing she would be doing this movie song collection but feel like a great opportunity was wasted. What is here is of the highest quality but it is just not enough. I just sigh imagining the awesome cd she could have provided if she added only another 20 minutes. It's as if she ran out of studio time or just wanted to rush it into print disregarding the final ultra important decisions. Her interpretations of songs is magical and unique but 39 minutes just isn't enough for this fan. Kudos to the performance but not to the final cd product itself.
Description of Soundtrack
Linda returns to her Broadway roots on this release. The 12 tracks span roughly the last 50 years in cinema, from Mancini's "Charade," the title tune of the 1963 movie starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, to "Falling Slowly," the Academy Award winner from Once, the 2007 Irish musical film. The originals may be familiar and beloved, but Eder and her band dramatically reworked the arrangements, rendering the songs in an intimate, fireside style. Other highlights include an aching version of Yvonne Elliman's 1977 disco hit "If I Can't Have You," from Saturday Night Fever and a faithful rendition of "Valley of the Dolls," the theme of the 1968 flick that Dionne Warwick turned into a No. 2 pop hit.Broadway & Vocalists CDs
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