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The Best Of Marie Osmond has excellent songs from this great singer. However, it's tough to put together a mere ten songs and call it a "best of" type of compilation. This annoys me; but what we do get is very good material. The quality of the sound is very good and the artwork is very nice as well.

"Paper Roses" starts the album with Marie singing very sweetly; her voice is clearly a finely tuned instrument and together with a great backup chorus Marie makes this number her own with a few tempo and key changes. "Paper Roses" makes a fine start to this CD and I'm sure that you will enjoy Marie singing "Paper Roses" if you haven't heard this before. "There's No Stopping Your Heart" is another great tune that charms me with its beauty; the musical arrangement is very lush and Marie's excellent sense of timing enhances this ballad even further. Great!

In addition, "Everybody's Crazy 'Bout My Baby" is clearly a major highlight of this CD; Marie sings this with style and grace and her delivery is very solid. The melody has some 1980s features but it holds its own very well even today two decades later! Marie does this one up right! Listen also for "Think With Your Heart" gets another `80s beat for a country flavored number that happens to work very well; and Marie sings this it truly takes flight! I really like "Think With Your Heart."

"I Only Wanted You" is a number that amazes me with its natural beauty; and Marie makes this a timeless classic with her excellent diction and her timing. Maries sings this to perfection--and beyond! I'm very impressed; and the musical arrangement is very lush although it never drowns out Marie.

"You're Still New To Me" is a great duet Marie Osmond performs with Paul Davis; and this is another number that I also really enjoy. This country flavored ballad has the percussion marking the beat while Marie and Paul sing this very, very well. The album also ends well with "I'll Be Faithful To You;" "I'll Be Faithful To You" is an excellent ballad with plenty of country flair; and this makes an excellent final ballad for this CD.

My only gripe is that this album is too short. How can you take a mere ten songs and call then the "best of" Marie Osmond? I will take off one and ½ stars for this to make this a three and ½ star review. Sorry, folks.

Marie Osmond's choice "to go country" certainly worked well for her; this CD amply proves it. I recommend this album for Marie Osmond fans; and people who appreciate quality country music will love this album for ages to come--even if it is rather short!

I was never keen on the music that the Osmonds recorded in the seventies, so when I originally heard (in 1985) that Marie had gone country, I had my doubts - until I heard Meet me in Montana, her duet with Dan Seals, on one of his albums. I really wasn't expecting something that good. Helped by the success of that duet, Marie was successful on the country charts for a while.

This budget collection brings together her big country hits of the eighties and also includes a re-recording of Paper roses, a song that she first recorded as a child. You might prefer the original recording, but I much prefer the version here. Marie got the same producer and many of the same musicians to make the re-recording, so the feel of the record is similar, but Marie had matured as a singer so (to my ears) it is far superior.
I only wanted you, You're still new to me (a duet with Paul Davis) and There\s no stopping your heart are among the other major country hits included.

I'll be faithful to you was not released as a single but demonstrates that Marie could sing traditional country (the main instrument used on this track is a mandolin) when she wanted to.

Several of the songs here (but not I'll be faithful to you) can also be found on 25 hits special collection, which covers her seventies music (including her duets with Donny) as well as her eighties music. If you enjoy her seventies music, you might want to buy that instead (it includes her first version of Paper roses). But as a sample Marie's music in the eighties, this is brilliant.

This is a general collection of her 80's Country comeback hits including the #1 hits There's No Stopping Your Heart, Meet Me In Montanna(with Dan Seals) and You're Still New To(with Paul Davis). It also includes a remake, with the original musicians, of her first #1 Country hit from 1973 Paper Roses. She was only 13 then and it's interesting to hear her try to capture that innocence with a more mature voice. There are also 2 new songs added, the double hit single Like A Hurricane and Think With Your Heart. I Only Wanted You was another top 10 hit for her and is one of her best. The CD closes with the awesome song about love and loyalty called I'll Be Faithfull To You. Give it a listen to get familiar with her Best.

Snubbed by silly highbrows, Marie Osmond is one of the rarest talents to emerge in the latter half of the 20th century, and this CD is testimony to her awesome talent. Listen to her pristine, expressive voice-- it soars, it caresses lyrics, it entrances the listener.

I give Marie Osmand and every country-pop song on this CD five stars. However, I give the CD itself only four stars because it does not have some other classic Marie songs which should have been included here. Let's face it - they can put more than 10 songs on a CD and they should have on this one. Among the songs missing are Marie's wonderful interpretation of Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, the great Paul Davis tune Cry Just A Little and the 1989 hit Steppin' Stone. Shame on them for missing these songs and others.

Marie's voice is beautiful on this album. Her duet "Meet Me in Montana" is fabulous and "There's No Stopping Your Heart" superb! If you don't own any of Marie's music this is a great place to start as it samples her various hits.

Have listened to Marie over and over for many years, now. Many songs on this album bring out emotions of joy and loss with great clarity. "There's No Stopping Your Heart" is a classic. "Meet Me in Montana" invokes such deep longing for the one you love.

Marie Osmond is great! Her hit song is very true to life. Her performance is fantastic! I loved the first five, and the others were all great too.

this album covers all of maries long career and every track down memory lane is a gem a must for osmond fans.if you are not a fan you will be after listening to the best of marie osmond.

Pretty predictable hits set from Marie. Her last two albums (All in Love and Stepping Stone) are completly ignored. In their place we get a dreadful remake of Paper Roses and two new songs.
At least one of the new songs is worth listening to. Like a Hurricane is upbeat and an all around fun song. I also like the double entendres in the lyric. Whether it was intentional or not, I don't know but it is hilarious. The other new song Think With Your Heart could have come off of her 4 previous albums and no one would be the wiser. It's not a bad song, just kind bland. I have a single by her that came out in 1995 called "What Kind Of Man (Walks On a Woman) that was totlly awesome. The album never came out though. Instead of buying this hits cd. I suggest digging out the more complete "25 Greates Hits" album, it includes, all of the hits from the 80's the previously mentioned "Like a Hurricane" and a songs from the 70's both with and without Donny.