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Artist: Paul WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1997-06-04
Music Label: Karussell Records
Soundtracks:
- Waking Up Alone
- Weve Only Just Begun
- An Old Fashioned Love Song
- Let Me Be The One
- I Wont Last A Day Without You
- That Lucky Old Sun
- Traveling Boy
- The Lady Is Waiting
- You Know Me
- You And Me Against The World
- Rainy Days And Mondays
- Thats What Friends Are For
- The Family Of Man
- Loneliness
- A Little Of Love
- Ordinary Fool
- Time And Tide
- One More Angel
- Evergreen
Music reviews of Paul Williams
Music Review: Surprisingly enjoyable disc from a largely forgotten figure in pop music history
Rating: 4 Stars
His bread and butter was writing great pop tunes for other artists. Even if you have never heard of him you are probably familiar with some of his best known tunes like "An Old Fashioned Love Song", "Rainy Days and Mondays" and "Evergreen" from the motion picture "A Star Is Born". Yes, Paul Williams had a hand in writing some of the most memorable pop hits of the 1970's. But what you may not know is that Paul Williams was a pretty fair artist in his own rite.
Simply entitled "Paul Williams", this 1998 release from Australia will give the listener a pretty good idea of just how talented an artist Paul Williams really is. Although as an artist he only managed the proverbial "cup of coffee" on the Billboard Hot 100 with the extraordinary "Waking Up Alone" (#60, 1972), Paul Williams would release several LP's during the 70's and 80's. Though these albums never sold particularly well Paul Williams nonetheless loved to sing the songs he wrote. And he sang them extremely well indeed. This Paul Williams CD features a whole bunch of songs you should be familiar with. In addition to the ones I mentioned above you will also find "We've Only Just Begun" and "I Won't Last A Day Without You" which were big hits for the Carpenters and a great song he wrote for Helen Reddy "You and Me Against The World". That one is among the most enjoyable on the disc. I would also recommend for your consideration two other tunes that were minor hits for other artists. See what you think of "That's What Friends Are For" which hit the charts briefly for B.J. Thomas back in 1972 and "Traveling Boy" which although never made the Hot 100 was my very favorite Art Garfunkel single ever. A pair of other tunes from Paul's albums worth noting are "Ordinary Fool" and "Time and Tide".
It is safe to say that Paul Williams wrote or co-wrote the vast majority of the songs in this collection. However, there is no way to tell in this extremely "barebones" package. You get the titles of the 19 songs and that's about it. Too bad. That does detract just a bit from an otherwise impressive collection. "Paul Williams" the disc is in the final analysis a reasonably priced and fairly comprehensive collection of the best that this talented singer/songwriter has to offer. As for Paul Williams himself you can catch up with what he is doing these days on the web at paulwilliamsconnection.org.
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label: KARUSSELL release date: 06 June 1994Broadway & Vocalists CDs
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