Original UK double-CD from 1990.
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Such has been the longevity of Sam Cooke's music that it can look as if there are enough compilation albums of his material available to provide every man, woman and child on God's green earth with a different one. However, this exhaustive 28-track collection is really the only one anybody need own, and one everybody should certainly want to--Sam Cooke was a superlative singer who would have become a genuine superstar had he not been shot dead by the manageress of a Los Angeles hotel in December 1964, aged 33. Like all the very best soul singers, Cooke sounded like a man torn between the edicts of heaven and the temptations of earth, devoted in equal measures to his women and his God. His voice was capable both of a holiness you could swear an oath on ("Touch The Hem Of His Garment", "A Change Is Gonna Come") and a fervid sensuality that would cause anyone to hesitate before playing it to maiden aunts ("Soothe Me"; "You Send Me"). The Man & His Music is an all-too-rare case of a raging talent being done posthumous justice by its record company. --Andrew Mueller
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In light of all the hit Broadway musicals that have stumbled in their translation to the big screen, The Music Man stands out as an exception; it is one of the best-loved movie musicals of all time. A great deal of the credit goes to composer Meredith Willson, who resisted studio pressure to hire a big name for the title role (Frank Sinatra or Cary Grant) in favor of the Tony-winning stage star, Robert Preston, who turns in one of Hollywood's most magical performances as the spellbinder who hoodwinks a small town in Iowa. Shirley Jones did not perform the show on Broadway, but she had cut her teeth as a musical ingenue in the films of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and Carousel and gives Marian the librarian a lovely voice and charming personality. Most importantly, Willson's score combines marching bands and barbershop quartets to capture perfectly the spirit of America's heartland at the turn of the century. A classic. --David Horiuchi
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