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intereact!Josh Groban
Retail Price (not our price): $18.98
Release Date: 2001-11-20
Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
| Disc 1 |
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com
There are worse things in life than making your acting debut on the much ballyhooed season finale of Ally McBeal, though teen operatic baritone Josh Groban doesn't seem destined to encounter them anytime soon. As the awkward high school student-client who asks the typically romance-jinxed Ally to his senior prom, Groban performed this debut album's "You're Still You" (adapted from film-composing legend Ennio Morricone's Academy Award-nominated score for Malèna, with lyrics by Linda Thompson) as a heart-tugging, literal showstopper. The young phenom was just 17 when veteran producer-writer David Foster tapped him to fill in for Andrea Bocelli at rehearsals for the 1999 Grammys, where Groban found himself suddenly dueting with Celine Dion. Indeed, such were his fortunes that the young Foster protégé was forced to drop out of Carnegie Mellon when professional commitments--including this record--interfered. And if this collection tends to hew sometimes uncomfortably close to Foster's own MOR sonic instincts, the material offers enough challenges to display Groban's talent and the potential of his warm, mature voice: a lyrical take on another Morricone classic, "Cinema Paradiso"; melancholy readings of Don McLean's "Starry, Starry Night" and Albert Hammond's "Alejate"; masterfully dramatic takes of the Neapolitan "Alla Luca Del Sole" and "Canto Alla Vita," the latter featuring the Corrs. Many of Groban's performances here, including a neo prog-rock-opera take on Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" (with Lili Haydn), seem both bigger and bolder than their precious musical frameworks, a telling hint that Grand Opera can't be far from his grasp. As said earlier, there are worse things in life. --Jerry McCulley
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5
1) Josh Groban CD [Rating: 5 out of 5]
The more I listen to this CD, the more I like it! Even my 10-year-old daughter loves to listen to Josh Groban. Well worth the money.2) Josh Groban [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Fantastic. I can't get the songs out of my head. How I missed Josh when the CD came out is unbelievable. He is an artist.3) Josh Groban [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Excellent CD of a superb young singer who will likely go far in the next few years. His voice has strength, depth and range, and the entire CD is a credit to the music world. Can't wait to obtain more CDs by this great artist.4) The "Voice" has it! [Rating: 5 out of 5]
You might as well simply call Josh Groban "The Voice". His vocalizations are effortless, exquisitely simple and fuss free. You can easily understand every word (no mush-mouthed singing from this boy) and there is never a hint of pitch problems. Every note is dead on. This is my particular favorite of all his CDs.5) Groban is the Best [Rating: 5 out of 5]
No one can compare to Josh Groban. Easy listening, marvelous sound, beautiful selections on all his CDs.