Customer review from Amazon
Reviewer: lampic from Amsterdam,
the Netherlands
Although I am great admirer of work of Washington, at first I
wasnt sure what to think about this album.After years in bussines
and simply faboulous blues records she made a name with (check
out her tribute to Bessie smith!), she turned to pop audience
with this album and obviously made lots of money.It sounds very
much like "The Platters" of their best-selling records,
which could be soft and easy at their best or annoyingly and
calculatedly sweet at their worst.Lost in the sea of strings,
backed by anonymous female choir, this great voice swims through
12 beautiful ballads just a bit too easy for comfort.If anybody
else sings this, I would dismiss it as pop trash of the period
but because great Washington has put so much affections and feelings
into material (and because she died soon afterwards, so all her
records are precious) I love it.Title song has still power to
make me cry after all these years and the sole beauty of Dinah's
voice could be the reason for purchasing this album.The influence
of Billie Holiday, Dinah's favourite singer, is very obvious
in almost every song. |
