The Best of Mario Lanza [Import]

Richard Rodgers (Composer), Nicholas Brodszky (Composer), Irving Aaronson (Composer), Guy D'Hardelot (Composer), Nacio Herb Brown (Composer), Jerome Kern (Composer), Sigmund Romberg (Composer), Chauncey Olcott (Composer), Vincent Youmans (Composer), Kurt Weill (Composer), Frederick Loewe (Composer), Rudolf Friml (Composer), Maurice Wright (Composer), Sammy Fain (Composer), Mario Lanza (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Mario Lanza
• Composer: Richard Rodgers, Nicholas Brodszky, Irving Aaronson, Guy D'Hardelot, Nacio Herb Brown, et al.
• Audio CD (December 12, 2000)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Camden International
• ASIN: B000050XIT
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #537,410 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. With a Song in My Heart

2. Be My Love

3. Because You're Mine

4. The Loveliest Night of the Year

5. Because

6. Temptation

7. Beloved

8. The Song Is You

9. Student Prince/Serenade [From The Student Prince]

10. New Moon/Lover Come Back to Me [From the New Moon]

11. My Wild Irish Rose

12. More Than You Know

13. Younger Than Springtime

14. September Song

15. On the Street Where You Live

16. Only a Rose

17. Falling in Love With Love

18. And This Is My Beloved

19. My Romance

20. This Nearly Was Mine

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Worst of Mario Lanza, February 20, 2008

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James G. Kilbourne (Hollywood, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Mario Lanza (Audio CD)

This "best" collection includes several selections from what was originally released as "Lanza on Broadway", an unspeakably embarrassing descent into tastelessness which makes Lanza lovers, such as myself, wonder if his critics have it right, after all. The answer is, no, the critics are wrong, because at his best, Mario Lanza is untouchable in vocal beauty and emotional involvement with the music. I always felt sure that he was dead drunk when he recorded this, but I am assured by those who have heard the full takes of these recordings that he was quite sober. I have no answer as to how the man who recorded "For You Alone", "Granada", and the soundtrack for "The Great Caruso" a few years earlier could have sunk to "Falling in Love with Love" and "This Nearly was Mine"(this snearly was mine, as it comes out).
Happily, after this travesty, he recovered to make some great recordings before his untimely death at 38. If you have not heard Mario Lanza, listen to almost anything he recorded between 1945 and 1953, and you will hear arguably the greatest singer you have ever heard; or get his "Mario" album of Italian songs recorded a few years later. I give this two stars because any collection of Lanza has got to have some gems in it, but why suffer through his worst, when there are several fine collections available elsewhere?

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars made Mom dry happy tears!, January 3, 2007

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M. Crawford "theMammaof3" (Elkhart, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Mario Lanza (Audio CD)

She was so pleased she thanked me over, & over!! :) she thinks he's dreamy