 |  | A nice collection of easy listening tunes |  |
This 1992 release features a great collection of easy listening tunes. Senior citizens who can't stand the sound of hard rock/heavy metal will love this collection. Afterall,many of the songs were hits during their younger days. The material is a lot like some of the songs on 1990's DON'T EXPLAIN. However on this album,there are either re-releases or alternate versions of DE and YOU'RE MY THRILL,also from DE. The late great Robert Palmer is so elegantly dressed in a tuxedo,surrounded by orchestra musicians in the cover photo. Palmer was a fan of easy listening artists like the late Nat King Cole,the late Billie Holliday and the late legendary Frank Sinatra. If you own all four volumes of Rod Stewart's THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK,you'll love this album. I dedicate this item to the memory of Palmer(January 19,1949-September 26,2003).
October 26, 2006| | | Great Interpretations of Great Songs | |
Pulled this CD out the other day for a listen--had forgotten how much I enjoyed it. Palmer released this a long time before it was fashionable for rock singers to cut standards albums, and he did his with great class and style. It's not the usual collection of songs, and the arrangements are very fresh and unique. I highly recommend it to people who enjoy the classics. Not your run-of-the-mill lounge singer act.
April 11, 2004 | | Robert Palmer Rides High With The Standards | |
Ridin High is a 1992 album release by Robert Palmer that finds the singer diving headfirst into pre rock era jazz and romantic standards, completely abandoning the dance friendly hard rock and R&B blue eyed soul of his most famous recordings. Actually, Palmer grew up on this music and occassionally recorded songs in this vein on previous albums. Here, the singer stretches a bit too thin as he seems to struggle at times to capture the emotion and handle the vocal challenges of this type of music. Sinatra or Bennett he isn't, but at times Palmer shows he has the versatility vocally to do justice to these standards. Uptempo fare like "No, Not Much" and "Goody Goody" suit him well, but Palmer handles himself on slower standards like "Love Me Or Leave Me", "The Tender Trap", and beautiful haunting rendition of Billie Holiday's "Don't Explain", possibly the album's highlight. Casual fans will distress the lack of rock oriented material.
November 22, 2003Robert Palmer with the album shows us Jazz is his true love after flirting with pop music for most of his career.
A lovingly compilation of the most beautiful, haunting, and classic Jazz standards. His rendition of these is full of love and passion, even though others may have technically excelled him his love for the music is tangible in his every breath....Listen to "Don't Explain" where he gives fitting and beautiful homage to Billie Holiday's haunting classic. Track after track is a veritable feast of Palmer's wonderfully passion and his voice is irristible, and as if all this was not enough Palmer treats us to an original song of his, amongst all these classics. "Want you more" is nothing short of a masterpiece by Palmer. It earns its place alongside all those beautiful Jazz songs. I recommend anyone with even the slightest interest in Jazz to buy and listen to this album, Music in its truest and purest form shows us a glimpse of the inexhaustable human love and spirit, this album does this over and over again. August 24, 2003
Robert Palmer with the album shows us Jazz is his true love after flirting with pop music for most of his career.
A lovingly compilation of the most beautiful, haunting, and classic Jazz standards. His rendition of these is full of love and passion, even though others may have technically excelled him his love for the music is tangible in his every breath....Listen to "Don't Explain" where he gives fitting and beautiful homage to Billie Holiday's haunting classic. Track after track is a veritable feast of Palmer's wonderfully passion and his voice is irristible, and as if all this was not enough Palmer treats us to an original song of his, amongst all these classics. "Want you more" is nothing short of a masterpiece by Palmer. It earns its place alongside all those beautiful Jazz songs. I recommend anyone with even the slightest interest in Jazz to buy and listen to this album, Music in its truest and purest form shows us a glimpse of the inexhaustable human love and spirit, this album does this over and over again. August 24, 2003
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