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His Greatest Love Songs
Despite this 2004 compilation's relatively general title, GREATEST LOVE SONGS is surprisingly sharply focused, zooming in simultaneously on both Engelbert Humperdinck's most romance-obsessed tunes and his 1967-'70 heyday. While the set features a number of the British-raised pop singer's hits, including the pleading "Release Me (And Let Me Love Again)," it also presents other lush, swooning, and lesser-known tunes by the beloved crooner ("The Shadow of Your Smile" is a particular stand-out). Although it doesn't top the more comprehensive ULTIMATE COLLECTION, GREATEST LOVE SONGS remains one of the finer Humperdinck anthologies available.
- Release Me
- There Goes My Everything
- The Last Waltz
- Am I Easy to Forget?
- A Man Without Love
- The Way It Used to Be
- I’m a Better Man (For Having Loved You)
- Winter World of Love
- Sweetheart
- Another Time, Another Place
- Too Beautiful to Last
- Quando, Quando, Quando
- There’s a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)
- Spanish Eyes
- I Want to Wake Up With You
- She
- This Guy’s in Love With You
- True Love at Last
- If
- Can’t Take My Eyes off You
- Misty Blue
- Les Bicyclettes de Belsize
- What a Wonderful World
- Stardust
REVIEWS
With Engelbert Humperdinck's Decca Records contract coming to an end in 1974, the label compiled His Greatest Hits. The American version (released on Parrot) contained ten tracks, eight of them being Top Ten hits on either the pop or easy listening charts between 1967 and 1969, and the remaining two being"Quando Quando Quando" and "Spanish Eyes." Humperdinck had scored plenty of other easy listening hits that could have been included, but instead, all but one ("I'm a Better Man") of his Top 40 pop-chart entries were included here, among them such signature songs as "Release Me (And Let Me Love Again)," "A Man Without Love (Quando M'Innamoro)," and "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize." Those were the songs that established Humperdinck as a contemporary
omantic balladeer with a European flavor, setting the pattern for his subsequent career. A more complete compilation of his hits, especially in the CD era, would be welcome, but the basic recordings that made him a star are included on His Greatest Hits, and this may have helped the album stay in print over the years.
I found this CD great. It has a lot of his old songs and many I don't have on CDs but on old albums. I know no other voice that touches me like his.
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