Customer Reviews

Beautiful Ballads

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Actually purchased this after seeing her in a Divas concert at Radio City Hall. Gladys is amazing live and literally gave me goosebumps. The album is a great buy and "Neither One of Us Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye" has already been played to death.

Loving it.

This album of ballads celebrates one of the finest voices in pop music to come along in decades. Her master cover of Curtis Mayfield's "The Making of You" is a classic. And she could take a chestnut like "The Way We Were" and snatch it away from Streisand to make the definitive version. Gladys Knight has long been underappreciated as a fine song stylist. Young singers just starting out would do well to listen to this CD carefully and take note of how a great artist masters her craft. This is a fine collection.

I love Gladys no matter what she sings. However, I purchased this CD because it has a couple of my personal favorites on it such as You're number one in my book, etc. Its a very nice CD.

The cd has a poor sound quality. The collection of songs is excellent and beatiful.
The cover says that it is digitally mastered by Sony but the copies they made from the original are disappointing.

I am a big Gladys Knight fan, but this one is mostly ballads as the title said. Additionally, the songs are not the original editions. I kept listening for the highpoints of the original songs. The one song that I bought the CD for (Midnight Train to Georgia) did have the original sound and I really enjoyed it, but didn't want to hear that many back to back ballads. When I found the one song on the CD that I was looking for, the CD title "Beautiful Ballads" didn't register until I played the CD.

This CD is ok, not as nice as I expected. Guess I was looking for more of mixture of Gladys Knight's top hits and some Galadys Knight and the pips hits. It's ok.

A beautiful and spiritual CD. So calming and uplifting. And as always, Gladys gave it her all!

There are merely a handful of CD's that can be considered timeless, and this one is one of them. From beginning to end, this collection of songs is Gladys at her best. Not to mention I'm a huge Gladys Knight fan. If you're a fan this CD will not disappoint you. Sometimes when an artist creates a CD of Ballads, it diminishes some of their other works from the past and you tend to forget what a well rounded artist they are. This is not the case with Gladys Knight. This CD is an absolute masterpiece from beginning to end....

I purchased this CD for my husband as when we first met 33 years ago I had a LP called Still Together of Gladys Knights with a record which we played over and over again "To make a long story short" so have been looking for this recording so pleased to find it on the Beautiful Ballads CD also there are some of our other favourites, great CD to listen to when your in the mood for a romantic night.

Excellent CD!! Smooth groove can't place CD down. I would highly recommend this CD classy.