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Kate Smith
Encore Collection
Genres: Pop, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. Impossible Dream (The Quest) [From Man of La Mancha] - Kate Smith, Darion, Joe
2. Climb Ev'ry Mountain [From The Sound of Music] - Kate Smith,
3. Be My Love [From Toast of New Orleans] - Kate Smith, Brodszky, Nicholas
4. You'll Never Walk Alone [From Carousel] - Kate Smith, Hammerstein, Oscar
5. When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain - Kate Smith, Johnson, Howard [10
6. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Kate Smith,
7. Danny Boy - Kate Smith, Weatherly, Frederic
8. God Bless America - Kate Smith, Berlin, Irving
9. My Cup Runneth Over [From I Do! I Do!] - Kate Smith, Edwards, Darrell
10. Born Free [From Born Free] - Kate Smith, Barry, John [1]

A budget-priced 10-track collection of favorites from Kate Smith. All original recordings.

CD Details

All Artists: Kate Smith
Title: Encore Collection
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Collectables
Original Release Date: 1/1/2000
Re-Release Date: 9/16/2003
Genres: Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Oldies, Vocal Pop, Musicals, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 090431938720

Synopsis

Album Description

A budget-priced 10-track collection of favorites from Kate Smith. All original recordings.

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CD Reviews

Thanks for the Mixed Memories

L. Marietta | Berkeley, CA | 02/16/2008

(2 out of 5 stars)

"As a diehard Kate Smith fan, I found this "Encore Collection" CD to be very uneven. Taken from her 1960's LP's with RCA Victor, Kate's voice and vocal style was definitely at odds with much of the popular repertoire of that era. Only her famous legendary songs like "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain" and "God Bless America" save this CD from being a bad representation of Miss Smith's multiple vocal gifts, and these songs are better recorded by her on other labels. Her voice also shows the toll of time in that she virtually belts every contemporary song as if trying to hit a home run. While the Kate Smith sound is definitely there, she seems quite uncomfortable in a few songs, almost trying too hard to be "with it". By the time of these recordings her beloved longtime manager (who decided virtually everything for and about her) had died, and perhaps she was ill advised in her choice of repertoire. What is really annoying about this CD is the overly-obvious fake reverberation slathered on far too generously at times. There are far better compilations of Kate Smith, so I can't honestly recommend this CD. Many of these "Encores" are better left unsung."