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Debbie Reynolds
"Best Of Debbie Reynolds"
© Curb Records
Year of Release: 1991
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track listing
Tammy
A Very Special Love
Am I That Easy
To Forget
Moonglow
Time After Time
Mean To Me
Love Is A Simple Thing
S'posin
You Won't Be Surprised
Hooray For Love
Aba Daba Honeymoon
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Debbie Reynolds
"Best Of Debbie Reynolds"
Before Rock N Roll was at its peak when Elvis Presley triggered the new
music movement, easy listening music was the mainstream source of music. Big
Band artists, and male/female crooners owned the popularity of the music charts.
Of the early female artists, singer/actress Debbie Reynolds played a small part
in the Rock N Roll Era -- she had a number one song in the early years of rock
and roll, and her #1 was not as rocking as Elvis and the rest, but as Rock N
Roll was emerging, big band/easy listening music was slowly on its way out.
"Tammy" would be her only #1 song (1957), as its as pleasant as any
Easy Listening format song, likewise the rest of the songs contained on this
Best-of compilation. "A Very Special Love" is pleasant, standards
such as "Am I That Easy To Forget" and the soft-jazz "Moonglow"
has the listener who is more used to the current music, often wondering in
amazement how the music of the early 1950s were so different as it is today;
and the common phrase comes to mind: "Ah, they don't make them like THAT
anymore!"
"Time After Time" and "Mean To Me" continues the pleasant
easy listening format, and like "Moonlight", they are dreamy, and
soft-jazz'ed inspired. Having a more big-band style with a female vocal,
"Love Is A Simple Thing" is another good easy listener, and very
relaxing. "S'posin" and "Hooray For Love" are other big-band
styled tunes, "You Won't Be Satisfied" is soft-jazz'ed, and the album's
closer has Carlton Carpenter joing Debbie Reynolds in the very upbeat number,
"Aba Daba Honeymoon."
Fans of the Big-Band sound, and soft-jazz will enjoy Best Of Debbie
Reynolds. To get away from the current musical styles of today, Debbie
Reynolds' music takes us back to where music was clean, relaxing, and easy to
understand the lyrics. Where most people would agree that this kind of music
is boring to the later years of rock and roll, Best Of Debbie Reynolds
proves that this kind of music can be enjoyable at any given moment, just to get
away from it all from the loud and raunchy sounds in later-year rock.
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