The Best of Will Downing - 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection [Original recording remastered]

Will Downing | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 6, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Hip-O Records
• ASIN: B000FGG6C0
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,190 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #12 in Music > Jazz > Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo

Track Listings

1. I Try

2. A Million Ways [Radio Edit]

3. Don't Talk to Me Like That

4. Wishing on a Star

5. Crazy Love

6. Cool Water

7. Free

8. Heart of Mine

9. Stop, Look, Listen to Your Heart

10. Everytime It Rains

11. I Can't Make You Love Me

12. Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Collection For A Great Artist!, July 11, 2006

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Charles L. Hubbert "of Urban-Reviews.com" (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Will Downing - 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection (Audio CD)

Will Downing has been around for a LONG time. Entering his 18th year in the business, Downing continues to keep his name out there despite the fame and fortune that others have gotten. Making good music and sharing it with the fans that he does have seems to be the main focus for Will Downing. After accumulating 12 albums over the years, it's a daunting task to select the best of the best for a snapshot collection that will only feature 12 songs. 20th Centery Masters' Millenium Collection for Will Downing does fairly well in picking out the best songs for the compilation. And like many other collections in this product line, it is not meant to be a definitive collection that has all of his hits to date.

For the casual fan of Will Downing, the Millenium Collection does its job. It has signature songs like the wonderful duet with Rachelle Farrell "Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This" and his spectacular covers of Rose Royce's "Wishing On A Star," Angela Bofill's "I Try," Deniece Williams' "Free," and Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me." His song "Stop, Look, Listen To Your Heart" was a standout from the Pleasures of the Night album with Gerald Albright. It even includes his later hits like "Cool Water" from 2002's Sensual Journey, "A Million Ways" from 2003's Emotions and the fantastic ballad "Crazy Love" from his latest studio album Soul Symphony.

If you wanted the absolute best cuts from his career, then Will Downing's Millenium Collection is a good starter album. But take it from a fan who owns EVERY Will Downing album (including his Christmas, Love and You holiday album), you certainly don't want to stop there because there is much more to Will Downing than the 12 cuts on this collection.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best R&B/Jazz crooner of our time., June 26, 2006

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Justo Roteta (Los Angeles, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Will Downing - 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection (Audio CD)

While by no means comprehensive or definitive, this budget-priced CD of Mr. Downing's work serves as a fine introduction for anyone discovering this great crooner's music for the first time. His best CDs ("Moods", "A Dream Fulfilled", "Invitation Only", "Sensual Journey" and the simply timeless "Love's The Place To Be") are all still available, however, and will make you a fan of this velvet-smooth crooner and are better choices.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Million Ways to Please a Woman, July 18, 2006

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Rebecca Johnson "The Rebecca Review" (Washington State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Will Downing - 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection (Audio CD)

"I think of you and me
and how it used to be
stays heavy on my mind
every time it rains..."

When you please a woman, I can guarantee she will want to please you even more. This album has an amazing song that speaks to the heart and is the truth through and through.

Will Downing's deeply sensuous jazzy style infuses this album with comfort. I love everything he sings about and when I want to relax at night this music is pure dreamy. Whether you are taking a long bath or giving your lover a massage, this music is especially comforting. I don't know, I kinda like to keep his music all to myself. ;)

The entire sensuous and romantic album is deeply thoughtful and caring. If more men said the things Will Downing says in his songs there would be a heck of a lot of happy women on the earth. I love the thunderstorm in "Every Time it Rains."

To me at least, this music is hopelessly romantic but has a manly edge that is especially attractive. I could listen to this music all night, which seems to be what I'm doing...

~The Rebecca Review