![]() ![]() To hear a Sound Bite from this album, call 202/334-9000 and press 8129. Appearing with the Neville Brothers Monday at Wolf Trap. He brings a spry sense of rhythm to Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell," and he expertly builds from understatement to climax on Aretha Franklin's '68 hit, "Ain't No Way." Best of all, though, are an obscure, early Marvin Gaye ballad, "The Bells," and the traditional hymn, "The Lord's Prayer" - two slow, very quiet songs where the intensely spiritual quality of Neville's best singing is given room to blossom.ĪARON NEVILLE - "The Grand Tour" (A&M). A relatively restrained arrangement allows Neville to imitate Russell Thompkins's stratospheric vocal on the Stylistics' 1972 hit, "Betcha By Golly, Wow," only with a softer, more personal touch. Zobacz sowa utworu Betcha By Golly, Wow wraz z teledyskiem i tumaczeniem. Lacking the wit and imagination of Sinatra's Nelson Riddle or Motown's David Van DePitte, arrangers Mort Lindsey and David Campbell back Neville with static, limp string charts.įor all that, the album has several shining moments. Aaron Neville - Betcha By Golly, Wow - tekst piosenki, tumaczenie piosenki i teledysk. The problem isn't that Lindsey chooses lush orchestral settings instead of New Orleans funk, for orchestration is appropriate for Neville's Nat "King" Cole- and Sam Cooke-inspired balladry the problem is that the settings aren't very good. All four of the album's recently written songs are similarly underwhelming.Įven when Neville gets a good song to work with, like Bob Dylan's romantic entreaty, "Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight," his urgent pleas are undermined by producer Steve Lindsey's formulaic background. ![]() For example, the album's first single, "Don't Take Away My Heaven," gets off to a splendid start with Neville's prayer-like gospel vocal, but the song is soon cluttered with pedestrian arrangements for string, horn and choir, and the hackneyed nature of Dianne Warren's songwriting becomes too much to bear. One is grateful for the chance to hear Aaron Neville's brilliant high-tenor balladeering on "The Grand Tour," but one can't help but think how much better it might have been if Neville had been given stronger songs and fresher arrangements to work with. ![]() IT WAS THE best of albums it was the worst of albums. ![]()
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