Still Unforgettable (Amazon Exclusive Bonus Track)

Natalie Cole

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 9, 2008)
• Original Release Date: September 9, 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino Records
• ASIN: B001AW3UNQ
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #11,556 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
17 Years After The Multi-Platinum Album "Unforgettable...With Love", The Eight-time Grammyr Winning Singer prepares to release her follow-Up album 'Still Unforgettable' on 29th September with substantial UK promotion to coincide with the release. This much anticipated release is a timeless collection of popular tracks from the great American songbook, transformed to life with Natalie's beautiful vocal and iridescent flair. Natalie has had an amazing string of hits throughout the years including 'This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)', 'Miss You Like Crazy' and 'Pink Cadillac', achieving Grammy success eight times over. 1991 saw the release of 'Unforgettable' featuring her own poignant arrangements of her Father the legendary Nat King Cole's greatest hits. The album went on to sell over 14 million copies worldwide. Recorded at the historical Capital Studios in LA and produced by Natalie herself, the album features classics 'Walkin' My Baby Back Home' a duet with Nat King Cole, 'Come Rain or Come Shine', 'Here's That Rainy Day' and 'But Beautiful'. Pre-ceding the album release, is the lead track from the album 'Walkin' My Baby Back Home' - a wonderful duet with her late father Nat King Cole, which was first released by him in the 1950's - available digitally from 29th July. A brand new video for this song and an EPK is being created for TV promotion.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not her best, September 13, 2008

By	E. Reynolds "Erey10" (Georgia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Natalie has an outstanding voice one of the best I have ever heard and she could sing anything. But, this CD you can tell she was sick when she recorded it. As Natalie knows to sing this kind of music you have to feel it and put those emotions in the song as she did with her prior CDs. This CD she is just singing it and you can't do that with these songs. You have these incredible bands with great music and you have to out do the music, as Smoky Robinson found out when he tried to make a CD with the old classics, which was terrible. I am a big collector of classic music and I know Natalie can do much better than this, but I have a very critical ear when it comes to this kind of music.

29 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dullsville, September 17, 2008

By	C. A. Moore "Goodbro" (Memphis, TN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is not Natalie Cole at her best.
She's in pretty good voice, but her singing lacks spark and energy (maybe it has to do with her illness), but Ms. Cole has certainly sounded more lively and sassier on other recordings.
This is a throwback to those easy listening albums of the 1950s and 1960s. I was expecting Natalie to take the genre forward.
The arrangements are dull rather than lively and some of these arrangements tend to sound the same. What happened to the swing of a song "The Best Is Yet To Come?" Natalie's version is just average.
To have made Still Unforgettable truly great, Natalie Cole could have used the services of veteran producer and big band arranger Quincy Jones.

34 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not So Unforgettable, September 14, 2008

By	Michael Kerner "Michael Kerner" (Brooklyn, New York U.S.A.) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Over the past several years, we haven't seen really great pop albums that have shined. While we've heard standard records from Rod Stewart with his Great American Songbook series, and offshoots like Barry Manilow's Greatest Songs from the 50's, 60's and 70's. For Natalie Cole though, it has been 17 years after the most dominant standards album, Unforgettable With Love. Her well-acclaimed tribute album to her late father Nat king Cole is one of the most dominant albums she has ever recorded. But, many fans have been eager and anxious for a sequel to her Unforgettable record, and are hoping for a comeback from Natalie. Well, she has finally made a sequel, but it does it really work?

Natalie Cole's 2008 album, Still Unforgettable, which tends to follow-up on her success with the 1991 acclaimed album, but feels more like a mixed bag of tricks that misses the mark. Some of the songs sound well, like her newly-recorded duet with her dad, Walkin' My Baby Back Home, as well as The Best Is Yet To Come, and her rendidition of Lollipops And Roses. There are though some tracks that feel more they are weak, and lacking heart and soul like her cover of How Do You Keep The Music Playing?, a song which was much more recognized by Patti Austin & James Ingram from the 80's, and her cover of Come Rain Or Come Shine. The feeling of this record, which Natalie did produce by herself, and without the success of her work with David Foster behind Unforgettable, it just feels like it has less drive and heart, but Natalie still shows strength in her voice that still shows the shadow she is still walking under.

All in all, Natalie Cole's Still Unforgettable is not the best standards records album I've heard the past several years, but could've brought more than what listeners still want to find unforgettable. Still Unforgettable isn't as much of a must buy for music lovers as was with Unforgettable With Love, but leaves hard core Natalie Cole fans wishing for more to walk with their baby back home.

Album Cover: B

Songs: C

Price: C+

Mastering: B

Overall: C 1/2+