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It Started With a Dream

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Cy Coleman has written some great shows and showtunes. Here's his chance to sing them his way. Wait until you hear "Witchcraft"... an amazing version that you'll want to play over and over. Tony Bennett's on the CD and he's never sounded better. If you're a Broadway show fan, this is an album you will enjoy. Even if you're not, that version of "Witchcraft" is worth the price of the CD....

I have always been a sucker for composers and lyricists singing their own songs, and Cy Coleman is perhaps the best at it, followed closely by Martin Charnin and Burton Lane.
The orchestrations are superb, easily the best I've heard in the genre. There is wonderful passion in these songs, which are excellently crafted.
Sometimes, Coleman's songs have seemed to me to be derivative of other songs. His "Hooray for our Favorite Son", from The Will Rogers Follies is really a dressed up version of his own "Pass Me By",from the movie "Father Goose". It was camouflaged by girls and tambourines.
The first track, "Some Kind of Music" seems an awful lot like Sinatra's "Let's Take It Nice and Easy".
The eighth track, "I Really Love You" is perilously close melodically to Frankie Valli's "My Eyes Adored You".
Why,then,5 stars? Because the songs are still wonderful, and spectacularly performed. Plus, I enjoy playing Tune Detective.

Listening to this cd makes you feel that you're out on a wonderful night on the town on Broadway. Cy sings beautiful songs with passion and heart. Cy is a dynamic artist with a melodious touch on his grand piano.

This is the perfect cd for your next roadtrip. You can sing along as you enjoy the scenery going by, where-ever you are!

Every song is great. One flows into the next, inviting your ears and senses to just listen. You will find yourself singing along. This is evocative, easy listening music with positive undertones. It's mood lifting to hear his interpretations (because at one point in your life or another - you can relate to what he sings about.) The songs, The Colors of My Life, Bad is for Other People, It Started with a Dream, and all the others featured will have you believing that The Best is Yet to Come... I love this cd. I may need to buy another one, because I've played my disk so much!

If you love masterful songwriting, you'll love this CD. Lyrically and musically this is top drawer. I discovered Cy's music when listening to Barry Manilow's Showstopper album, and I'm so glad I did. "Some Kind Of Music" was worth the price of the CD alone.

I watched the first Playboy Penthouse show with Cy Coleman. Mr. Coleman was great. His voice was in top form, his piano arrangements had the right edgy hip jazz take to them, a great performance. He played three songs, Witchcraft, You Fascinate Me So, and The Best Is Yet to Come. The band was a trio, piano, bass, and trumpet. Later, I saw this CD online and bought it. What a disappointment. What I got was sappy, over orchestrated, arrangements that took the life, the jazz out of every song. He seems to have evolved into a musician appealing to everyman, everyman over 70 years old. Jazz by sappy old men. Bebop to Geritol. What happened to the cool hip Cy Coleman I saw on TV? The performance on this CD is terrible. He was so great. What happened?