Lonesome Echo

Jackie Gleason | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 13, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1955
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collector's Choice
• ASIN: B000059LFA
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,804 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #29 in Music > Indie Music > Pop > Easy Listening

Track Listings

1. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows

2. Dancing on the Ceiling

3. Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup

4. Speak Low

5. Someday I'll Find You

6. Remember

7. Come Rain or Come Shine

8. A Garden in the Rain

9. Mad About the Boy

10. The Thrill Is Gone

11. I Wished on the Moon

12. I Still Get a Thrill

13. Deep Purple

14. There Must Be a Way

15. I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)

16. How Deep Is the Ocean?

17. After My Laughter Came Tears [#][*]

18. Can This Be Love? [#][*]

19. Down Among the Sheltering Palms [#][*]

Editorial Reviews

Reissue of Jackie Gleason's #1 charting album from 1955, complete with that Salvador Dali artwork. Includes three unreleased cuts recorded the same year, 'After My Laughter Came Tears', Can This Be Love?' and 'Down Among The Sheltering Palms'. 19 tracks of lush romance. Standard jewel case. 2000 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Gleason meets Dr. Zhivago, June 20, 2004

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This review is from: Lonesome Echo (Audio CD)

If you're looking for the classic Gleason sound a la For Lovers Only, you won't find it here. I gave it three stars because while it is not what I expected, it was, never the less, good listening. Bobby Hacket's String of Pearls, Soft Lights or In a Mellow Mood are more like the old Gleason Sound....get them instead. This one has the Balalaika flavor of Dr. Zhivago. But,"good listening" music is hard to come by. Enjoy!
Lormat

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gleason makes musical mandolin magic!, September 7, 2008

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Robert Badgley (St Thomas,Ontario,Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lonesome Echo (Audio CD)

This top charting /55 album is re-released by those good folks at Collector's Choice music who seem to have as good a taste in music as we do!
This is certainly an album to cherish.Jackie's musical sensibilities were all well grounded in the great Amercian Songbook.Who could go wrong there?
He would often get "unusual" ideas for his next albums.One such was the 25 flutes he added for the "Night Winds" albums(also available from Collector's Choice).Another was the addition of 40 mandolins for THIS album.All 16 tracks of the original album have those lush and vibrant instruments strumming away in a romantic mood only Gleason and his musical cohorts could conjure.Each players was told to dip their picks into water before playing to get a further effect.The mandolins,like the flutes,came strictly from Gleasons' furtive imagination.He was always striving to give the public not only the expected but something unexpected,all set within his musical parameters.He succeeded even beyond his own dreams.He touched us then and these tracks still reverberate with us today.That has to tell you something of the man that was Jackie Gleason,musically and otherwise.
This CD also contains three bonus tracks of unreleased material,and these are more in the vein of his lush strings sound he was so famous for;"After my Laughter came Tears","Can this be Love?" and "Down among the Sheltering Palms".Wonderful additions.
And to make the package complete Collector's Choice includes the original Salvador Dali artwork and liner notes.The CD's sound had been transferred wonderfully and is excellent.What more could you ask for?

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Music From A Great Artist, February 24, 2006

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David D. MacDonald (Grand Rapids, Michigan USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lonesome Echo (Audio CD)

One of Gleason's best. After 50 years it still moves me.