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This album was recommended by Barry Manilow at his recent concert at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan NYC. Dave Koz did a guest spot at Barry's concert. Dave is apparently an old friend of Barry's and either used to play with Barry or still does. I'm pretty sure I've heard Dave on some of Barry's older songs, like "Brooklyn Blues" and a naughty little song "I Wanna Do It With You". Anyway, this is a great album, with great songs you will most certainly recognize from The Movies (hence, the album title--duh). Dave is a talented sax player (and I've heard plenty of sax players) who includes vocalists in some of the tracks, like Barry Manilow on "Moon River". Absolutely beautiful versions of absolutely beautiful songs with Dave featured in sax solos on each.
This is a collection of mainly slow songs, except for "Pink Panther" which always had an aire of sleuthing mystique about it. These are superb arrangements with full orchestras in the background. This is soft sit-by-the-fire-with-the-wine-and-someone-special mood-musik. 14 tracks, totaling a hair under 1 hour. Highly recommended by this little blonde polish girl. A small booklet is included with the CD, which I honestly haven't read, but there are several pages for those who are interested.
--"Over the Rainbow" (from The Wizard of Oz) begins with a snippit of Judy Garland singing the song, followed by Dave's highlighted sax melody.
--"Moon River" (Breakfast at Tiffany's) features Dave on Sax with Barry Manilow doing the vocal.
--"As Time Goes By" (Casablanca) with vocal by Anita Baker and Ingrid Bergman speaking from the movie at the beginning of the song.
--"Somewhere" (West Side Story) ". . . There's a place for us. . . "
--"The Shadow of Your Smile" (Sandpiper) with vocal by Johnny Mathis.
--"The Pink Panther" (ditto), Henry Mancini's famous song from the movie about Inspector Clousseau (spelling?)
--"The Way We Were" (ditto) with vocal by Vanessa Williams, from the Redford/Streisand movie we all remember.
--"The Summer Knows" (Summer of '42)
--"It Might Be You" (Tootsie)
--"Cinema Paradiso Suite (Cinema Paradiso)
--"A Whole New World" (Aladdin) from the Disney movie, with Donna Summer doing vocal.
--"Schindler's List (ditto)
--repeats "It Might Be You" and "The Shadow of Your Smile" titles, but as instrumentals rather than vocals.
Absolutely beautiful versions of absolutely beautiful songs. Great mood music for your collection. Hey, how can ya go wrong with anything recommended by Barry Manilow!?! That Manilow dude knows beautiful music!
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Beth H.
Great cover for my collection of Broadway and film CDs music.
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