Oh well, yes Rita's voice does sound pretty, but do we really need another MOR album of baby boomers' pop hits?
Two of the problems that I have with these efforts are that the originals are superior and there are deserving young musicians who are not given a chance to record on a major label, because some celebrity needs to record the hits of his or her youth.
I spend between $150 to $200 a month on CDs and so much of it is for releases of music from the past that has never made it to CD or music that I never discovered along the way. There is not enough new good music being released. The record labels don't take the chances with new bands the way they did 30 or 40 years ago. We get Rod Stewart and his great American Songbooks instead.
I don't like being a huge naysayer on this. But is Rita's version of Angel in the Morning going to lead to a re-discovery of Merilee Rush or the song writer (Chip Taylor)? Doubt It.
Rich
Two of the problems that I have with these efforts are that the originals are superior and there are deserving young musicians who are not given a chance to record on a major label, because some celebrity needs to record the hits of his or her youth.
I spend between $150 to $200 a month on CDs and so much of it is for releases of music from the past that has never made it to CD or music that I never discovered along the way. There is not enough new good music being released. The record labels don't take the chances with new bands the way they did 30 or 40 years ago. We get Rod Stewart and his great American Songbooks instead.
I don't like being a huge naysayer on this. But is Rita's version of Angel in the Morning going to lead to a re-discovery of Merilee Rush or the song writer (Chip Taylor)? Doubt It.
Rich