Love Julie [Import]

Julie Andrews | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 22, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Prestige
• ASIN: B00004NRZG
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #268,812 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Out of This World

2. Come Rain or Come Shine

3. Love

4. Tea for Two

5. How Deep Is the Ocean?

6. My Lucky Day

7. The Island

8. A Soundsketch

9. So in Love

10. Where or When

11. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?

12. Nobody Does It Better/Nobody Does It Better (Reprise)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Glorious Julie, Bad Arrangements, November 2, 2000

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Richard J. Roberts (Indianapolis, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Love Julie (Audio CD)

As much as I love Miss Andrews, I must warn you against this album. The selections are fine, and Julie is in fine voice, but the instrumental accompaniments are agonizing. Imagine the worst in early eighties bad synthesizer. Then imagine the painful contrast of Julie's crystal voice and that awful background noise. If they could remix this, isolate the vocals, and then replace the synth with a simple piano, bass, and drum combo, it would be great. But as is, I just can't bear it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars half a star.. if that.., March 8, 2007

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E. Kingsley "Superb taste" (Nashville) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Love Julie (Audio CD)

I've heard some of the greatest stars stumble with albums, but I havent heard a "stumble" this bad before. When we think of Julie, we of course think of glorious arrangements featuring The London Symphony Orchestra or something wonderful like that. Love, Julie falls flat. Highly dated orchestrations featuring the really BAD '80s synth and drum machine almost to the point it makes you sick. The only worth while track on the album is "What are you doing the rest of your Life" Julie is perfection on that track. I bought this album thinking it might be worth listening to... but I cringe at "dated" music. Julie is superb, her voice is as it always was "Superb" but this album falls flat.

Dedication needs to be put into to reorchestrated this work and making it the gem it rightfully should have been.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very sexy, April 24, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Love Julie (Audio CD)

I was wary of buying this album based on the reviews here. At the same time I was anxious to hear something sung by Julie Andrews other than the Baubles, Bangles and Beads of her early career. So I did buy it, of curiosity, and am very glad I did.

In fairness, some of the arrangements are pretty bad. Some of them are shockingly bad. For "Love", for instance, you do long for Lena Horne's original backup. Thank God we've grown out of the 80s button-pushing style of accompaniment.

But there are some singers, and some voices, that defy the expiration date of their milieu, and I think this is the case here. The same quality makes The Sound of Music timelessly appealing.

Little known, obivously, is that Andrews also defies the fructose facade she's been Von-Trapped in. This album's rendering of "The Island" is one of the sexiest recordings I've heard. It's not all that surprising to those of us who suspected that Mary Poppins was having a pretty hefty fling on her days off. Julie Andrews has always been sexy; here's your evidence that Maria would have made a disasterous nun.

It is lamentable that there are not more, and better-produced, albums like this one from Andrews. I disagree that she's out of her element in singing popular standards. I think she's pretty well proven by now that she can do anything - and, though humbly, better than the rest.