Ol' Yellow Eyes is Back

Brent Spiner | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Original Release Date: 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Infinite Visions
• ASIN: B000HGH89I
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #381,521 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's called an affectation, February 28, 2005

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Professor Hosquith (Southern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back (Audio CD)

Many people's comments show they don't appear to 'get' the vocal style Spiner used here. I haven't heard the enrtire album so my rating only applies to "It's a sin to tell a lie", heard on April Winchell's radio show. Spiner is affecting a singing voice style that I don't know the real name for, but I've heard called "Irish tenor". It's a style associated with the '20s and '30s. Sometimes the guys in this period even sang though a megaphone, not because it was necessary, but because they liked how it sounded. This also explains the excess vibrato, very much part of the style. Eddie Cantor and Cole Porter provided many examples of this type of singing (check out Porter's "Let's Misbehave", the theme music from Woodly Allen's "Everything You always Wanted to Know About Sex"). For another example, see W.C. Fields' "The Old Fashioned Way", with a couple of solos sung by Joe Morrison in the same style.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best album by a Star Trek alum... period., September 18, 2003

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Melissa Hunnefield (Lititz, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back (Audio CD)

A beautiful collection of oldies preformed by Brent Spiner. His singing on the show is nothing compared to the mellow tones put forth on this album. I've included a track listing for those who haven't heard any more about it... in order:

Time After Time
The Very Thought Of You
More Than You Know
Toot Toot Tootsie
Embraceable You
It's A Sin (To Tell A Lie)
Long, Long Time
Carolina In The Morning
Marie
Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
When I Fall In Love
Goodnight, Sweetheart

Only one song is even slightly annoying, and it's not due to Spiner. "It's A Sin (To Tell a Lie)" features a monologue by Captain Jean-Luc Picard actor Patrick Stewart. It's total cheese, but the song is lovely.

Great music for a romantic evening by the fire, playing around on the computer, or driving on a rainy night. Not the terribly trashy stuff of former Star Trek albums, but a very nice collection of remade oldies. I'd like to hear more from Brent.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For the record..., June 11, 2006

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Randy Goldberg "Voracious reader" (Yonkers, NY, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back (Audio CD)

For the record, Brent Spiner was a Broadway star long before he joined the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. He had a featured role in Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George in 1984, and replaced Rene Auberjonois (another Trek alum who can sing) in Big River in 1985.

I agree that this is a mediocre album - the very title tells you that it's a gimmick. The arrangements are lackluster, and I've heard Brent sound much better (on the cast albums of the aforementioned Sunday and his starring role as John Adams in the 1997 revival of 1776). He was clearly leaning on his Star Trek connections to sell the album.