I Wish You Love: 20 Great Love Songs [Import]

Engelbert Humperdinck | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 30, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Deram
• ASIN: B00004VOUB
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,638 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Man And A Woman (Homme Et Un Femme)

2. Man Without Love

3. Time For Us (Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet)

4. Am I That Easy To Forget

5. By The Time I Get To Phoenix

6. Can't Take My Eyes Off You

7. I Wish You Love

8. Everybody Knows

9. Gentle On My Mind

10. I'm A Better Man (For Having Loved You)

11. Love Letters

12. Release Me

13. Spanish Eyes

14. Stardust

15. Shadow Of Your Smile

16. There's A Kind Of Hush

17. This Is My Song

18. What Now My Love

19. Winter World Of Love

20. Last Waltz

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars melodic bliss, December 23, 2004

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This review is from: I Wish You Love: 20 Great Love Songs (Audio CD)

Warning: May cause eyes to cry, heart to leap with the joy of hearing so much beauty.
There is something so wistful, so intensely beautiful about many of the songs in this fabulous compilation that I rarely get from start to finish in the hour-long program without a few tears being shed.
Engelbert's rendition of Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", which was a huge hit for Glen Campbell in 1967, is so exquisitely tender and sad I think it would move the hardest heart to become misty-eyed; it is simply one of the best performances I've ever heard of any song in any genre...and another favorite of mine (and the reason I bought this CD) is "Love Letters", which is rarely included in Engelbert's many compilations.

Charlie Chaplin's "This is My Song" from his film "A Countess From Hong Kong" is tailor-made for Engelbert's soaring voice, as is the 1930s hit for so many artists but never sung better than here, "Stardust", and Eng includes its wonderful intro.
There are a few movie themes in this collection, and "A Time for Us" (from Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet") is surely one of Nino Rota's loveliest melodies, and "The Shadow of Your Smile" ("The Sandpiper") is fabulous.
The re-mastered sound is very good, and thanks to John Tracy for putting this incredible collection together (and including "Love Letters"), and for his clever and informative liner notes.

5.0 out of 5 stars Just one gripe ..., May 1, 2009

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Critic Wannabe (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Wish You Love: 20 Great Love Songs (Audio CD)

My only complaint is the omission of "After the Lovin'". But I guess from a marketing strategy, including it would have virtually made purchasing anything else by Humperdink obsolete, because this compilation has them all!