Amazing Timi Yuro: The Mercury Years [Import]

Timi Yuro | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 4, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal UK
• ASIN: B0009HLBDO
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #82,616 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I'm Afraid The Masquerade Is Over

2. All I Need Is You

3. I Love My Man

4. I Didn't Know What Time It Was

5. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)

6. If

7. Maybe You'll Be There

8. I Can Dream, Can't I?

9. Johnny

10. There Must Be A Way

11. My Foolish Heart

12. I'm Still Around

13. You Can Have Him

14. Could This Be Magic

15. Get Out Of My Life

16. Can't Stop Running Away

17. Teardrops 'Till Dawn

18. Pretend

19. Turn The World Around The Other Way

20. Just A Ribbon

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Often Described in her Early Years as "The Little Girl with the Big Voice", Timi Yuro Recorded but One Album While at Mercury in the Early/Mid 60s. This Brand New Collection Opens with that Entire Original Recording and a Number of Other Classic Interpretations, Jazz Standards and Rare B-sides. All of which Are Making their First Appearance on CD, Since their Original Vinyl Release Some 30 Years Ago.

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truely Amazing!!!, August 15, 2005

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David Byers (Ontario,CANADA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amazing Timi Yuro: The Mercury Years (Audio CD)

Yes, finally Timi's "amazing" Mercury LP has been remastered onto CD. For years my only connection to it was a cassette tape of vinyl and hope that someone, somewhere would have the insight to locate the master tapes (if they even existed...) and do Timi Yuro justice. I listen to this release with some sadness however, knowing that it never happened in this remarkable lady's lifetime.I got into Timi from a mid 70's bargain bin find and although have and still listen to all kinds of off-beat music, Timi Yuro was really something special. Maybe she was born 30 years too soon and for the time (in the early 60s), her somewhat ethnic stage name and lusty soulfulness was lost on white-bread America. Intially she was swept up in the teen idol singer craze that dominated youth music and so then essentially shut out of the adult album buying market. Oh well... The original LP benefited from inventive arrangements, and overall great song selection and recording.You never hear a singer soar with such intuitive nuance and soul (and without the fake histronics...)as you will on " The Amazing Timi Yuro". I think it's her finest work and you can tell she loved making it.I do think, "Johnny",one of Bobby Scott's beautiful originals, could allude to Johnny Burnette who was a Liberty label mate of Timi's and at least a casual friend.He died in a boating accident not long before this LP was put together.I get this feeling anyway...The singles included while often border on greatness definitely lack a direction. But I've always loved,"Get Out Of My Life" and its flip and wonder if Timi and the late great Teddy Randazzo could have continued a collaboration what beautiful fruits might have been harvested. Randazzo, although sadly underated,was, as a songwriter/arranger up there with Burt Bach. et al. He went on to give the world, "The Elegent Sound Of The Royalettes", an LP beauty in the "mature" girl group vein (among his other great pop/soul confections). Worth seeking out.If only Timi had gotten to " Goin' Out Of My Head" first..."The Amazing Timi Yuro- The Mercury Years" is a must listen, an overlooked treasure, by one of the greatest singers you'll ever hear and yes, a desert island pick for sure!!! Thankyou Timi, and too, all those involved in this long awaited re-issue.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Timi Yuro really WAS amazing, August 2, 2005

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Richard P. Buller (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amazing Timi Yuro: The Mercury Years (Audio CD)

I am absolutely overjoyed that, at long last, "The Amazing Timi Yuro" has been released complete on CD. I've waited years. There is another CD out there with the same cover graphics, but it includes only a few of the songs on the original. Now, all 12 of the original, magnificent songs are intact, as well as 12 more songs that were unknown to me. It's odd the way things worked in the '60s with Timi. She recorded several marvelous songs that were released as 45's but that never made it onto LP's. On this compilation, "Just a Ribbon," which only made it as a 45 in its day, is my favorite, a fabulous ballad sung as only Timi could have.

I first became aware of Timi Yuro in 1983 when I was in a shop in West Hollywood called Dorothy's Surrender. "The Amazing Timi Yuro" was being played in the shop, and I was stunned by what I heard and asked the owner who the singer was. When he told me Timi Yuro, and that recently she had been a megastar in Belgium where excited concert audiences had thrown the seats around, I felt too embarassed to admit I had no idea who she was, but I remembered the name and went on to hunt down any of her albums I could find. She's been slow to emerge on CD, but slowly but surely it's happening. I agree that Bear records should do a box set of her. She's way underrated, and I am constantly irritated by how difficult it is to find her CD's in the stores.

"The Amazing Timi Yuro" is full of some of the most extraordinary renditions of songs I have ever heard. Timi belts her songs in a lower range, which strongly appeals to me, and she sings with total sincerity and emotion. She really puts her all into everything song she sings -- and sometimes the strain on her vocal chords does show, as when her voice cracks in "I Didn't Know What Time it Was" (I am not sure if her throat cancer was due to her singing, but I assume it was). Every song in "The Amazing Timi Yuro" is wonderful. I've been listening to this album for 23 years now, and I never tire of it. Timi really was "soul." Many of her contemporaries, most notably Barbra Streisand, were much into technique, but Timi specialized in capturing the emotion and soul of a song. Really, she's the most amazing singer I've ever heard. Dinah Washington was even a fan (and tried to outdo Timi by recording her own version of "Hurt," but it's a very pale copy, even by Dinah's high standards).

"Johnny" is a particuarly gorgeous song in which Timi laments the loss of someone in her life named Johnny. We do not know who Johnny is or why Johnny is gone -- the assumption is he died, but it's left purposely unstated, so that the listener can read anything he likes into the song. It's melodic, moving, beautiful -- everything a song should be. During the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980's, I considered "Johnny" an unoffical theme song for that catastrophe.

Billie Holiday's last recorded song was supposedly "Don't Worry About Me." It wasn't, but it makes a nice thought. Similarly, a lilting song on "The Amazing Timi Yuro" is a good one to remember Timi by: "I'm Still Around."

Why Timi is so overlooked is a mystery to me. Why so few have even heard of her is a mystery. I so wish she had made more lush albums like "Amazing." Alas, I believe she made only one further LP, "Something Bad on My Mind," an album I've heard she detested but which I've always liked. Well, there's very little Timi sang that I don't like.

To cite the cliche, if I was to have only one CD on a deserted island, it would definitely be "The Amazing Timi Yuro." It is an astonishing achievement. Taken in conjunction with her Liberty recordings, it reveals an incredibly gifted artist whom the gods graced with almost superhuman talent only to take it all away with bad timing (she was undermined the British invasion in the late '60s) and health issues. Her fans don't need a record title to tell them Timi was amazing: we've known that for years.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHY ARE SOME TRACKS NOT INCLUDED, October 5, 2005

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M. J. Rossiter (UK) - See all my reviews
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Timi only recorded one album with Mercury, which is here and also includes most of the Mercury singles. Unfortunately there are some tracks not included, and I don't understand why.
This album is the most "adult" set of recordings she ever made, and they will never date. Her voice is sheer perfection, and Tim wrings every ounce of emotion she has on each one. My own personal favourite is "All I Need Is You", but they are all gems.
She was a terrific singer, and to me outshone Striesand and Franklin and all the other female singers. I think she suffered from very bad promotion and management, as she should have been a huge star.
I have every record she made, some are signed by her, which I treasure. I also now have almost everything she did on cd, which saves me from playing my treasured vinyl which I will never part with.
I also have fan club material which I have kept from the sixties, plus a couple of letters she wrote to me. The last one was very sad, as she was telling me that she had just recorded what she called "the last thing I can ever offer to you", which was her superb album with Willie Nelson. She knew she would never record again due to her wicked cancer, which eventually took her from us. She is so very sadly missed, not only as a lovely little lady, but also as possibly one of the greatest white soul singers who ever lived.
Why she never reached the top I just don't know as she certainly deserved to be there.... Mike Rossiter