Gonna Take a Miracle: The Best of Deniece Williams

Deniece Williams | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 12, 1996)
• Original Release Date: March 12, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000002ACJ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,422 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Media Type: CD
Artist: WILLIAMS,DENIECE
Title: GONNA TAKE A MIRACLE-BEST OF
Street Release Date: 03/12/1996
Domestic
Genre: SOUL/R & B

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of Deniece Williams: Gonna Take a Miracle, January 1, 2006

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Geminigirl (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gonna Take a Miracle: The Best of Deniece Williams (Audio CD)

For those who have never heard of Deniece Williams, this is an excellent compilation disc to initiate you to her heavenly voice. It's a great disc that covers her secular music career as well as adding her bone chillingly wonderful gospel song, GOD IS AMAZING.

I was happy that that particular song was included because to her fans, it was the perfect way for her to tell her fans that her calling & future in music would be in the gospel realm. I also appreciated the inclusion of the magnificent BLACK BUTTERFLY - as a child, our choir always sang this song during celebrations for Martin Luther King Day so it holds a special place in my heart.

Again for those who've never heard any music from this true songbird, this is an excellent compilation to introduce you to her amazing voice. And to fans, it's an excellent addition to your collection.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Collection, Great Voice, November 5, 2003

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markus king "markus" (Winston-Salem, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gonna Take a Miracle: The Best of Deniece Williams (Audio CD)

Deniece Williams always had that voice that lifted you a little higher- soft, sweet, happy and heartbreaking. This is a decent collection of her best. The biggest hits are here: the dreamy brilliance of FREE (which she co-wrote), the blockbuster TOO MUCH, TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE (duetting with Johnny Mathis), the Thom Bell produced classics SILLY and IT'S GONNA TAKE A MIRACLE, and finally, the "Footloose" hit, LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE BOY.

Their also several minor hits which, if the casual listener is not familiar with them, may be a pleasant surprise: the best being up-tempo tracks like I FOUND LOVE, BABY MY LOVE'S ALL FOR YOU and WHEN LOVE COMES CALLING. There's also the inspirational ballad BLACK BUTTERFLY, which over the years has gained more prominence as one of Niecy's best.

The collection is not perfect: chronologically, this is all over the place, with early hits like TOO MUCH near the end of the CD, and there are a couple of notable omissions (1986's R&B Top 10 hit NEVER SAY NEVER is missing, as is WHAT TWO CAN DO, a Top 20 hit from 1981, and her 1988 album AS GOOD AS IT GETS is not represented, either), but overall this is a decent overview of one the unsung talents of a prime era in R&B music...

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best "I LOVE IT", July 3, 2006

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Sondra Young "sondra" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gonna Take a Miracle: The Best of Deniece Williams (Audio CD)

Deniece Williams is a great singer. One of my favorite Songs are "Cause you love me baby", almost every club I attended play that song in their club and everyone have a smile on their faces singing the song and knowing all the words when the DJ play that song and I'm young and I attend clubs where a lot of young folks are and yeah I know we dont know that much about old skool but when it comes to that song we know, a lot of young people love that song and other songs I love is "I found love", "Silly", and "Gonna take a Miracle". I maybe young (a 80's BABY) but I know a lot about old skool and I love this album.