Rod Stewart - It Had to Be You Great American S
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Artist: Rod StewartEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import
Published: 2002
CD Release Date: 2002-10-21
Music Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l
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- STEWART ROD THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK 1
- You Go to My Head
- They Can't Take That Away from Me
- The Way You Look Tonight
- It Had to Be You
- That Old Feeling
- These Foolish Things
- The Very Thought of You
- Moonglow
- I'll Be Seeing You
- Every Time We Say Goodbye
- The Nearness of You
- For All We Know
- We'll Be Together Again
- That's All
Music reviews of It Had to Be You Great American S
Music Review: Fish out of water!!
Rating: 2 Stars
When you are a mega pop or rock singer whom had been selling records in large volume all these years, but not anymore, the best and quickest way to break this mode and get yourself out of that slump is to record a CD or CDs that are full of American Standards, preferably with full orchestral accompaniment. Singers like Linda Ronstadt, Kenny Rogers, Sheena Easton, Anne Murray, Brian Ferry, etc. have done that before. I must hasten to say that sometimes it works splendidly like in Linda Ronstadt's case, but oftentimes, it fails miserably since these singers have neither the innate inflection for this kind of music, nor the appropriate vocal technique when to follow or when to deviate from the printed music scores.
Back to Rod stewart, his musical background was deep in the American blues like many Brits (rock singers) during the 60's, and he's been great in singing songs that are evolved directly from the blues: early rock and roll, rhythm & blues, pop and rock ballad and even Disco!
Musicologically, American Standards came from a completely different historical lineage: tin-pan alley. Artists who are associated with this genre are generally known as crooners: Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole, Patti Page, Julie London, etc. When you listen to tunes like "The Very Thought of You", and "The Nearness of you", you just can't help but to compare that to the ones sungs by Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong respectively.
With all things considered, I don't think Rod Stewart did a poor job on this record, or on other CDs in the Great American Songbook series. However, the over-orchestrated accompaniment, too-slick production, the lack of jazzy feeling in some of the session musicians' performance, and every song is in the same tempo (as found in other CDs of the same series), really do not help to dampen Rod Stewart's "FISH OUT OF WATER" renditions of some of these quaint and intimate tunes.
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