Mary Duff - When Your Old Wedding Ring Was New (2005) FLAC
BAND/ARTIST: Mary Duff
- Title: When Your Old Wedding Ring Was New
- Year Of Release: November 8, 2005
- Label: BMC Records
- Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop
- Quality: Flac lossless
- Total Time: 59:55
- Total Size: 391 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracks
01. As Time Goes By
02. When Your Old Wedding Ring Was New
03. In The Chapel In The Moonlight
04. Medley: Old Cape Cod / With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming / Allegheny Moon
05. The Nearness Of You
06. Medley: Now Is The Hour / Yours (Till The End Of Life's Story) / I'll Be Seeing You
07. Twilight Time
08. Our Love Is Here To Stay
09. Medley: And The Band Played On / Patrick Fagan (You're The Apple Of My Eye) / Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
10. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
11. Dream A Little Dream Of Me
12. Medley: Let It Be Me / All I Have To Do Is Dream / That's Old Fashioned (That's The Way Love Should Be)
13. (I'll Be Loving You) Always
14. It Had To Be You
15. True Love Ways
16. Till I Waltz Again With You
17. Time After Time (Lucky To Be Loving You)
18. Let There Be Peace On Earth
19. Danny, The Pipes Are Still Calling
Mary Duff starts off this album with a lovely piano and vocal version of "As Time Goes By" (familiar to all as the key song from Casablanca) that suggests that the Irish singer would make a mint as a cabaret singer. About halfway through, however, a full orchestra strikes up behind her, and continues sawing and blowing away at full tilt for the remainder of this hourlong disc. The Mantovani-style arrangements blare nonstop throughout When Your Old Wedding Ring Was New, whether Duff is singing old Tin Pan Alley standards, classic country and early rock tunes (she's particularly fond of the Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly, tackling a medley of the former's biggest hits and a really quite nice, understated take on the latter's "True Love Ways"), or Irish airs and novelties. The overblown arrangements are quite distracting, not the least because Duff has a lovely voice that she knows how to use, avoiding both the strident over-emoting and the tin-eared robotic phrasing that plague far too many singers working the book of standards. (Pre-rock songbirds like Teresa Brewer and Doris Day are the obvious point of comparison, though there's a hint of Patsy Cline as well.) A full album with Duff and a piano player, or better yet a small jazz combo, would be a much better setting for her attractive vocals.
Stewart Mason
01. As Time Goes By
02. When Your Old Wedding Ring Was New
03. In The Chapel In The Moonlight
04. Medley: Old Cape Cod / With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming / Allegheny Moon
05. The Nearness Of You
06. Medley: Now Is The Hour / Yours (Till The End Of Life's Story) / I'll Be Seeing You
07. Twilight Time
08. Our Love Is Here To Stay
09. Medley: And The Band Played On / Patrick Fagan (You're The Apple Of My Eye) / Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
10. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
11. Dream A Little Dream Of Me
12. Medley: Let It Be Me / All I Have To Do Is Dream / That's Old Fashioned (That's The Way Love Should Be)
13. (I'll Be Loving You) Always
14. It Had To Be You
15. True Love Ways
16. Till I Waltz Again With You
17. Time After Time (Lucky To Be Loving You)
18. Let There Be Peace On Earth
19. Danny, The Pipes Are Still Calling
Mary Duff starts off this album with a lovely piano and vocal version of "As Time Goes By" (familiar to all as the key song from Casablanca) that suggests that the Irish singer would make a mint as a cabaret singer. About halfway through, however, a full orchestra strikes up behind her, and continues sawing and blowing away at full tilt for the remainder of this hourlong disc. The Mantovani-style arrangements blare nonstop throughout When Your Old Wedding Ring Was New, whether Duff is singing old Tin Pan Alley standards, classic country and early rock tunes (she's particularly fond of the Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly, tackling a medley of the former's biggest hits and a really quite nice, understated take on the latter's "True Love Ways"), or Irish airs and novelties. The overblown arrangements are quite distracting, not the least because Duff has a lovely voice that she knows how to use, avoiding both the strident over-emoting and the tin-eared robotic phrasing that plague far too many singers working the book of standards. (Pre-rock songbirds like Teresa Brewer and Doris Day are the obvious point of comparison, though there's a hint of Patsy Cline as well.) A full album with Duff and a piano player, or better yet a small jazz combo, would be a much better setting for her attractive vocals.
Stewart Mason
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