Neil Diamond / The Jazz Singer (Original Songs From The Motion Picture)
Формат записи/Источник записи: [TR24][OF]
Наличие водяных знаков: Нет
Год издания/переиздания диска: 1980 / 2016
Жанр: Pop, Soft Rock, Pop Rock
Издатель (лейбл): Capitol Records, Neil Diamond
Продолжительность: 40:28
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: Буклет PDF
Источник (релизер): hdtracks
Контейнер: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Разрядность: 24/96
Формат: PCM
Количество каналов: 2.0
Треклист:
01. America 04:19
02. Adon Olom 00:35
03. You Baby 02:58
04. Love On The Rocks 03:39
05. Amazed And Confused 02:54
06. On The Robert E. Lee 02:03
07. Summerlove 03:19
08. Hello Again 04:10
09. Acapulco 02:50
10. Hey Louise 3:01
11. Songs Of Life 03:35
12. Jerusalem 03:04
13. Kol Nidre / My Name Is Yussel 01:39
14. America (Reprise) 02:22
DR Log
foobar2000 1.1.10 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2017-07-10 14:01:58
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Analyzed: Neil Diamond / The Jazz Singer
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR7 0.00 dB -8.74 dB 4:19 ?-America
DR12 -8.75 dB -25.87 dB 0:35 ?-Adon Olom
DR8 0.00 dB -9.58 dB 2:58 ?-You Baby
DR7 0.00 dB -11.55 dB 3:39 ?-Love On The Rocks
DR8 0.00 dB -10.33 dB 2:54 ?-Amazed And Confused
DR10 0.00 dB -11.48 dB 2:03 ?-On The Robert E. Lee
DR9 0.00 dB -12.09 dB 3:19 ?-Summerlove
DR9 0.00 dB -12.48 dB 4:10 ?-Hello Again
DR9 0.00 dB -11.49 dB 2:50 ?-Acapulco
DR8 0.00 dB -9.71 dB 3:01 ?-Hey Louise
DR12 0.00 dB -14.77 dB 3:35 ?-Songs Of Life
DR9 0.00 dB -11.43 dB 3:04 ?-Jerusalem
DR11 0.00 dB -16.21 dB 1:39 ?-Kol Nidre
DR6 0.00 dB -7.42 dB 2:22 ?-America (Reprise)
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Number of tracks: 14
Official DR value: DR9
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 3286 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Состав
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Richard Bennett
Arranged By [Orchestra], Conductor – Alan Lindgren (tracks: 1, 4, 8, 10, 11, 14), Tom Hensley (tracks: 7, 12)
Arranged By [Vocals] – Bob Gaudio, Linda Press
Backing Vocals – Donny Gerard, Doug Rhone, H.L. Voelker, Linda Press, Luther Waters, Marilyn O'Brien, Oren Waters
Bass – Reinie Press
Choir – Boyd H. Schlaefer, Dale D. Morich, David Teisher, James Gregory Wilburn, Jeremy C. Lipton, Mark H. Stevens, Timothy Allan Bullara, Yoav Steven Paskowitz
Guitar – Doug Rhone
Keyboards – Tom Hensley
Percussion – King Errisson, Vince Charles
Piano – Alan Lindgren, Tom Hensley
Producer – Bob Gaudio
Synthesizer – Alan Lindgren
Vocals – Linda Press, Neil Diamond
Об альбоме (сборнике)
If 1980’s Bob Gaudio-produced The Jazz Singer marks the point at which Diamond crossed over from respected, rugged torch balladeer to schmaltzy cabaret act, he could take solace in phenomenal sales. His biggest in the States, it shifted over six million. This despite the fact that the film which it soundtracked, in which Diamond starred as a Jewish singer opposite one Laurence Olivier, was generally panned. (It was a conceptually bizarre remake of the Al Jolson classic.) Still, it spawned songs as emotionally domineering as Love on the Rocks, Hello Again and the patriotic (and therefore enormously commercial) America.
Neil’s acting gained him nominations for both a Golden Globe and the first ever Razzie Award for Worst Actor (he won the latter). To add painful injury to insult, he’d recently been wheelchair-bound for months, having had a tumour removed from his spine. So for all its gaudy sentimentality, The Jazz Singer was a personal triumph over adversity. If he now traded in the tingling presence of his earlier, rawer recordings, he hit on a polished soft-rock sound that even today is being rehabilitated by hungry ironists.
Love on the Rocks was co-written with Gilbert Bécaud, whose songs had been covered by Elvis, Sinatra and Judy Garland. Its deceptively calm verses cede to a bridge/chorus of lung-rattling muscularity. It seems to include a charged hint of Diamond’s cynicism at those who fawn over celebrities then vanish as swiftly as ephemeral pop fame. Hello Again is a Lionel Richie-style weepie, the lady in question awkwardly addressed as "my friend". It became Diamond’s calling-card for the next few years. And while America is a stream of clichés about the hopes and fears of immigrants arriving in the US, it’s smart enough to honour "the flag unfurled" (well, what else rhymes with "world"?) and thus struck a profitable chord.
The album’s mid-section sags with lacklustre disco-lite numbers, Diamond hollering anthemic slogans as only he can. There’s even a Jewish traditional interlude. After this, Diamond’s standing was to drop, until Rick Rubin’s intervention. But that throaty rasp in Love on the Rocks captures the man’s majesty.