Love Makes the World [Import]

love makes the world [import]

Track Listings
1. Love Makes The World
2. You Can Do Anything
3. The Reason
4. I Wasen't Gonna Fall In Love
5. I Don't Know
6. Oh No Not My Baby
7. It Could Have Been Anyone
8. Monday Without You
9. An Uncommon Love
10. You Will Find Me There
11. Safe Again
12. This Time
13. Birthday Song (Bonus)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese edition of 2001 album includes one exclusive bonus track, 'Birthday Song'. Guests include, Babyface, Celine Dion, Steven Tyler, Wynton Marsalis & K.D. Lang.

Love Makes the World,Carole King,Sony,Pop,Rock/Pop

Love Makes the World [Import]
Love Makes the World Go Round: The Motown Collection
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Three great performances and more good stuff !
 Love Makes the World Go Round: The Motown Collection
Kiki Dee
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000A39FJE
Release Date: 2005-08-08

Tracks:

  1. Day Will Come Between Sunday and Monday
  2. Johnny Raven
  3. Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
  4. Jimmy
  5. I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You
  6. More Today Than Yesterday
  7. Oh Be My Love
  8. Love Makes the World Go Round
  9. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
  10. Love Is a Warm Kind of Sorrow
  11. For Once in My Life
  12. My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)
  13. I Second That Emotion
  14. I'll Try Something New
  15. Walk on By
  16. Mr. Loneliness
  17. I'll Have You, You'll Have Me
  18. Put a Little Love in Your Heart

Album Details

Available for the Very First Time on CD, this Collection features Kiki Dee's Only Motown Album in It's Entirety in Addition to Six Previously Unreleased Tracks. None of the Tracks Featured on this Album have Ever Been Available on CD Format. Released, as Ever, on Motown Monday; The Album features Detailed Liner Notes which Include an Exlcusive Q&a Interview with Dee.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Three great performances and more good stuff !.......2005-11-22

The CD reissue of this long forgotten rarity of an album recorded during Kiki's brief late 60s signing with Motown is certainly cause for celebration. Apart from Chris Clark, Kiki was probably the only white female singer to have found herself on Motown's roster of artistes during the label's halcyon years. The result of her entire Motown sessions - including leftovers in the can - are included in this compilation.

Technically, Kiki had arguably a better voice than fellow Britgirls Cilla, Sandie and Lulu. She had a naturally strong and attractive raspy edge to her voice that should have been labeled "soulful" but wasn't, for it lacked "sympatico", an innate quality that's gifted, not learned. Dusty had heaps of it. Kiki wasn't so lucky, as a result of which success eluded her when the others were making it big in the 60s.

Kiki's Motown sessions sound as fresh today as it did in 1970. The original album contained at least three masterful and sublime performances that make this a lost classic, namely "Love Makes The World Go Round", "Johnny Raven" and "Jimmy". The album is worth owning for these three recordings alone. The first of these should have been an instant hit but sadly wasn't. The second easily tops the Supremes' 70s cover on their "Touch" album. The last of these is simply immaculate and from the sleevenotes, it looks like Kiki feels the same way. There're other good stuff like "Day Will Come Between Sunday and Monday", "Love Is A Warm Kind Of Sorrow", "Oh Be My Love", and a slowed down version of Stevie Wonder's "For Once In My Life". Others like "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" and "I Can't Give Back The Love I Feel For You" are blander and don't compare, respectively with Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell's and Dusty Springfield's (from "Dusty Definitely") more familiar versions.

Besides, Motown made some poor choices too. Kiki was ill advised to cover the Dusty #1, "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me". This dismal attempt at an alternative chorus arrangement to the Dusty original only succeeds in being awkward and inept. Likewise, Kiki sleepwalks through a perfunctory rendition of Smokey and the Miracles' "I Second That Emotion" that makes you wonder why they even bothered. The four previously unreleased bonus tracks (Tracks 15-18) are uneven including two similarly uninspired performances ("Walk On By" and "Put A Little Love In Your Heart") which are more like try out sessions and finally abandoned for good reason. Good to have for completists but that's about it.

Kiki's Motown session is more than a quaint slice of late 60s recording history. A little uneven perhaps - but hey, since when did Motown artistes make great albums before the Marvin Gaye "What's Going On " era ? - but there's magic in at least three of these performances and more good stuff, so that's good enough reason to go out and buy yourself a copy. Listen and enjoy !
Love Makes World
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    		Love Makes World
    Carole King
    Manufacturer: Japanese Import
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000068OQW
    Release Date: 2002-07-09

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