The Essence of Melissa Manchester: Melissa Manchester: Amazon.ca: Music

1. If It Feels Good (Let It Ride)

2. Easy

3. Bright Eyes

4. Midnight Blue

5. Through The Eyes Of Grace

6. Home To Myself

7. Alone

8. O Heaven (How You've Changed Me)

9. Good News

10. Through The Eyes Of Love (Theme From Ice Castles)

11. Just Too Many People

12. Lovers After All

13. Fire In The Morning

14. Whenever I Call You Friend

15. Don't Cry Out Loud

16. You Should Here How She Talks About You

17. Caravan

18. Just You And I

19. Come In From The Rain

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Album Description

20 songs personally chosen by one-time Paul Simon student and Bette Midler backup singer, Melissa Manchester! Includes Midnight Blue; Don't Cry Out Loud; You Should Hear How She Talks About You; Just You and I; Fire in the Morning; Through the Eyes of Love (Ice Castles Theme); Whenever I Call You Friend , and more. The notes are a good read, too, with pieces by Barry Manilow and Carole Bayer Sager.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Songs And More!, Jun 11 2004

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This review is from: The Essence of Melissa Manchester (Audio CD)

Melissa Manchester is and always will be the one voice I like to listen to when I need cheering up. I like to refer to her as the "female Barry Manilow" and I mean it in a positive way! Like Manilow, she recorded for Arista for many years. Like Manilow, her style of music is very similar whether you want to label this music as MOR, adult contemporary, and/or easy listening. Like Manilow, she has LOTS of memorable songs! I have lots of respect of similar female artists who I enjoy listening to also (Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Carly Simon, Karen Carpenter, and Carole King), but in my opinion Melissa is the BEST! Listening to this CD will let you know why!

Before this collection was available, her "greatest hits" album from 1983 was the best compilation you can find. Thankfully, The Essence Of Melissa Manchester is a better collection! Nineteen wonderful tracks dating from her start in 1973 when her focus was on jazz-flavored songs. All her Top 40 hits are included except for the #39 hit "Pretty Girls" from 1979.

The packaging is superb: liner notes to highlight her music career along with comments on each individual songs. There are plenty of pictures with song credits. As a bonus, both Barry Manilow and Carole Bayer Sager have their own personal comments about Melissa. That alone was worth the price of this CD!

Finally, this collection works for both the casual fan (who will get her hits and full-portrait of Melissa) and for the Melissa fan (who would appreciate her best work on one CD).

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not quite 100% Essence, Nov 14 2003

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Mark Nobile (Columbus, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Essence of Melissa Manchester (Audio CD)

The title of the compilation should be "99.9 percent Essence of Melissa Manchester". As a vocalist, Manchester is without peer. She can finesse(or power) the most average song into something special. Only one thing keeps nagging me--why were the two singles from the most underrated LP of all time, "Mathematics", omitted from this collection. The two singles("Energy" and the title track, which would have been a number one hit if sung by Madonna, as radio programmers in the mid 80's ignored the older artists like Manchester, Ross, and Newton-John,even though their music was as fresh as any younger female artist)were on the MCA label, as, of course, was the LP, so this may explain the omission as "Essence" is an Arista release. It is the only plausible reason these important singles would have been omitted, but I have yet to find out why.
I highly recommend "Essence" to anyone that enjoys listening to what a true vocalist sounds like, rather than the cookie-cutter mediocrity that saturates today's airwaves.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Essence of Melissa Manchester, July 20 2003

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dunlap5555 "dunlap4444" (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews

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Lots of music on this CD. Over 70+ minutes. Some classic Carol Bayer Sager songs.

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