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 | Title : Broadway, My Way
Author : Eder, Linda
Release Date : 20030218
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $18.98
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Editorial Reviews :
The people who felt betrayed when Linda Eder covered several pop songs on 2002's Gold will be relieved that her follow-up, Broadway My Way, is a return to the Great White Way. As if to prove that she isn't limited to either the songs of Frank Wildhorn or ballads, Eder tackles some well-known show tunes. The ballads tend to be overwrought, so it's best to look for the uptempo numbers. The singer's take on 'Some People' is technically fine but so va-va-voom showbiz that it lacks the deranged edge that makes the song so compellingly dramatic. Things work a lot better on 'I Am What I Am': while Eder doesn't take it to the top (or rather over the top), this is as close as she gets to Mermanizing a number. Elsewhere, 'Don't Rain on My Parade' (immortalized by Streisand) and 'Man of La Mancha' are appropriately brassy and triumphant, with Eder roaring her way through both songs. Fans of both Eder and Wildhorn should note that the singer reprises her Svengali's 'Gold,' the title track from her previous album, and an excerpt from his long-in-the-works Camille Claudel. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Buyer Reviews :
Eder is one of the finest talents to come along in a long time. All of her previous efforts have gone heavy on the Frank Wildhorn tunes (she is after all his wife). So finally we get a cd with the majority of songs written by other writers. FINALLY. Her choices are very interesting and she is in great voice, but some problems. Why is there only an excerpt of What Kind Of Fool Am I, clocking in at 1:39. At first I thought it was part of a medley, but it is not. Extremely strange. Additionally, why are Gold, Unusual Way, A New Life and Man of La Mancha on this recording?? These songs appear on earlier Eder cds. So in essence, we are basically getting 9 new songs and 4 songs we already own (albeit, different vocals, but nearly identical). Do we really need to have a carbon copy of the song Gold released one year after the original, and far superior, version was released just a year ago. If Eder wished to record a Jekyll & Hyde song, how about This Is The Moment, a song that she didn't sing in the 3 other commercially available versions of J&H. Of all of the great bway songs out there to choose from, how awful for fans that they have to purchase a cd which contains 4 songs they already own. Let's hope we get a better cd next time, one that has all new songs, with songs NOT written by Wildhorn and which does not rehash recordings from the past.
(by A music fan)
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