This Is It: The Best of Melba Moore

Melba Moore | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 21, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Razor & Tie
• ASIN: B000002Z8Y
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #153,959 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Am His Lady

2. Lean on Me

3. This Is It

4. Falling

5. I Can't Complain

6. It's Been So Long

7. Keepin' My Lover Satisfied

8. A Little Bit More

9. Livin' for Your Love

10. Love Me Right

11. Love the One I'm With (A Lot of Love)

12. Love's Comin' at Ya

13. Mind Up Tonight

14. Read My Lips

15. Take My Love

16. You Stepped into My Life

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Melba is a true diva!, April 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: This Is It: The Best of Melba Moore (Audio CD)

This compilation of Melba Moore's greatest hits is truely a work of art. Her vocals are impeccably strong and soothing. My favorites are "Falling" and "A Little Bit More", a duet with soulful singer Freddie Jackson. She will go down in history as one of the greatest black songtresses of all time. Where are you Melba? I have truly missed you; but until I hear from you again I will have this album close to my heart and in my CD changer!

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Melba At Her Best, June 21, 2002

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shadygrady0002 "shadygrady0002" (Detroit, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is It: The Best of Melba Moore (Audio CD)

This is the most complete anthology released on Melba Moore to date. Just about every major hit of her career is represented here. This CD represents Melba in her finest hour.

The 80's were especially kind to Melba. She had 2 number one songs and a slew of Top 20 hits during her stint at Capitol Records. Being all of the albums these songs were culled from are currently Out of Print, this is a real collector's item.

The only disappointment was the total disregard for Melba's last Capitol recording "Soul Exposed". Nothing from that album is included on this CD. And I was really disappointed "When You Love Me Like This" from the "Read My Lips" LP was also passed over. Although it was only a minor hit for Moore, it was still important enough for them to have included here.

If you are an 80's R&B connoisseur, this CD is a must for your collection.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I still love this album 8 years since I bought the CD!, September 26, 2004

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Preston (nc) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is It: The Best of Melba Moore (Audio CD)

Melba Moore is still one of my favorite singers. I loved that 1982 to 1990 period of hits that she had! This album has her best music! I had never heard the first hits from 1975, but they were quite impressive, the starting point to a successful music career. I think that the trio of albums she did in '85, '86 and '88 are her best and it's well represented on this album. The rocking Read My Lips, the nice It's Been So Long, A Little Bit More, I Can't Complain, Love the One I'm With and others. One song I never heard that was a hit was Living For Your Love and she sounds fabulous vocally on that one. The first Melba song I ever heard was You Stepped Into My Life, that Bee Gees remake, and I still love that song. She could do disco quite good on that one, even though her forte is midtempo to slow ballads. The songs are well assembled here to show her many vocal styles on them. They're not in chronological order, but they sound good together. Perhaps her best performance is Lean on Me, where she holds that note for 22 seconds or so! She has a way with that voice of hers! The same way with Falling. Last year, I saw her sing on Beyonce's movie The Fighting Temptations. She still has it today with her singing and I hope that her venture into gospel goes well too. This album covers her music career very strongly and it's just a true representation of her talent.