Alan Bergman - Lyrically, Alan Bergman (2007) CD-Rip

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Title: Lyrically, Alan Bergman
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Verve
Genre: Pop, Vocal Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 49:27
Total Size: 380 Mb
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Tracklist:

01. The Windmills of Your Mind (Michel Legrand) 03:41
02. Nice 'N' Easy (Lew Spence) 03:02
03. The Summer Knows (Michel Legrand) 04:30
04. It Might Be You (Dave Grusin) 03:32
05. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life (Michel Legrand) 04:37
06. That Face (Lew Spence) 03:41
07. Love like Ours (Dave Grusin) 03:47
08. You Don't Bring Me Flowers (Neil Diamond) 03:02
09. Where Do You Start (Johnny Mandel) 04:43
10. How Do You Keep the Music Playing (Michel Legrand) 04:04
11. And I'll Be There (Dave Grusin) 03:49
12. The Way We Were (Marvin Hamlisch) 04:36
13. What Matters Most (Dave Grusin) 02:24

Listening to an Alan Bergman album where he sings his own songs will force listeners to realize that the same man was responsible for writing one of Frank Sinatra's breeziest finger-snappers, "Nice 'n' Easy," as well as the metaphysical cypher "The Windmills of Your Mind." What the songs of Bergman and his wife, Marilyn, have in common is a bittersweet wistfulness, an autumnal nostalgia at life passing by as we watch it go (or ignore it until our twilight years). Their songs speak to promise but also regret. In the notes, Marilyn tells the story of "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?," which was the result when film director Richard Brooks requested a song that could be played over the beginning of a relationship and also, with lyric and music unchanged, after the relationship had been broken. Like virtually all great songwriters, Bergman has excellent interpretive skills when he turns to singing the song, but his voice is noticeably weak. The arrangements of Jörg Keller and Jeremy Lubbock tend to make a virtue of his faults, and occasionally, Bergman himself turns it to his advantage; the naked beginning of "The Windmills of Your Mind" couldn't be any more spine-tingling -- except if the lyrics made any earthly sense.