Jane McDonald - Let The Light In

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:31
Size: 110,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:30) 1. You Don't Know What You Got
(3:14) 2. Step Outside The Door
(3:24) 3. I'll Not Be Beaten
(4:30) 4. I See It In Your Eyes
(3:43) 5. The Hand That Leads Me
(3:36) 6. Shallow
(4:04) 7. Let The Light In
(3:58) 8. This Is Me
(3:57) 9. You & I Could
(3:26) 10. Never Enough
(5:31) 11. You Still Lead Me
(4:33) 12. You're My World

Jane McDonald brings together new songs and fan favourites on her latest album ‘Let The Light In.’ The record marks the first time the powerhouse singer has recorded with her live band and replicates the united, cohesive sound of her live shows. It’s a format reflected in the song selection; four of which appeared on her last LP ‘Hold The Covers Back’, along with three covers from her live show, two reworked tracks and three new compositions. As a collection, the album showcases Jane’s vocal prowess, which is as strong now as it was 25 years ago when cameras rolled for BBC’s ‘The Cruise’.But what’s disappointing is that half of the 12 tracks are already widely available albeit in different configurations leaving essentially a six-track EP of new cuts. Moreover, the new songs are so good, including the country-tinged You Don’t Know What You Got, funk-driven You & I Could and You Still Lead Me, perhaps her strongest self-penned offering to date. Covers of ‘The Greatest Showman’tunes This Is Me and Never Enough, and Shallow from ‘A Star is Born’, add to her recorded repertoire, and it’s hard not to want for more. That’s not to knock the quality of the record; the original material is career-best work and, if there’s one thing to be taken from ‘Let The Light In’, it’s that Jane McDonald remains at the top of her game. https://retropopmagazine.com/jane-mcdonald-let-the-light-in-album-review/

Let The Light In

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Jane McDonald - You Belong to Me

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:09
Size: 116,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:16) 1. Give Me Time
(3:07) 2. Where the Boys Are
(3:28) 3. Little Things Mean a Lot
(2:24) 4. Kiss Me, Honey, Honey, Kiss Me
(3:24) 5. (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me
(3:55) 6. It Must Be Him
(3:29) 7. This is My Song
(3:02) 8. Blame It on the Bossa Nova
(2:40) 9. You're Breaking My Heart
(4:06) 10. You Belong to Me
(4:23) 11. I See It in Your Eyes
(4:51) 12. When I Look at You
(4:41) 13. Kiss Me One More Time
(3:17) 14. Behind Closed Doors

Jane rocketed to stardom in 1998 when she first appeared on our screens in the BBC 1 docusoap The Cruise. The series attracted 13 million viewers and Jane McDonald emerged as a star and household name Jane’s first album outsold her nearest rivals by four to one and gained Jane a place in the Guinness Book Of Records. It remained at Number One for three weeks and achieved platinum status staying in the Top 10 for 8 weeks. Each of Jane’s subsequent 4 major albums have all reached gold and silver status. 2009 saw the first album release under her own label. Simply titled ‘Jane’ it entered the Official UK Album Chart at Number 7 and achieved silver status within 6 weeks. Jane has built up a phenomenal theatre audience, performing incredible live concerts across the United Kingdom and Southern Ireland, selling out the Royal Albert Hall and the London Palladium twice. Jane has also played to a sold out audience at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas. The concert was filmed for DVD and went on to become an instant hit in the charts and the Mayor of Las Vegas presented Jane with the ‘Key To the City’. Jane was a regular panelist on the hit daytime show Loose Women and a regular guest on The Alan Titchmarch Show. Other TV highlights include, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, This Morning, GMTV and The Jonathan Ross Show. In 2015 she performed the coveted role of Grizabella in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS at Blackpool Opera House for which she received rave reviews. Jane puts her heart and soul into her sell out performances, produces her own albums on her own label, was executive producer on her CD/DVD, Live at the London Palladium and works along side her Musical Director on arrangements and recordings. In 2016 she embarked on her ‘Making Memories’ tour which sold out at venues all over the UK. It was so popular she continued touring the show throughout 2017.More.. https://jane-mcdonald.com/bio

You Belong to Me

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Jane McDonald - Cruising With Jane McDonald

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:55
Size: 116,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:38)  1. Club Tropicana
(4:16)  2. Caledonia
(4:24)  3. Vienna
(3:41)  4. Let It Go
(3:56)  5. The Winner Takes It All
(3:44)  6. Cuba
(2:32)  7. Mambo Italiano
(3:59)  8. Lost In France
(3:45)  9. It's Oh So Quiet
(5:37) 10. (Something Inside) So Strong
(2:42) 11. California Dreamin'
(4:27) 12. Proud Mary
(3:07) 13. Step Back In Time

One of the U.K.'s first successful reality TV recording artists, cabaret singer Jane McDonald became an overnight sensation after appearing in BBC docu-soap The Cruise. Born in Wakefield in 1963, McDonald started her singing career performing at various workingmen's clubs across the North of England, employing her father as her roadie. After working as an entertainer on several cruise ships, she retired from the business for nine months until a call from her agent persuaded her to take up one final job, a residency on The Galaxy. Coincidentally, the BBC was filming a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the day-to-day running of the cruise liner and asked McDonald if she would like to appear. Thanks to her down to earth nature and Northern sense of humor, she became the show's biggest star, and following its huge ratings success, she was signed to Focus Records. In 1998, her self-titled debut album reached number one in the U.K. charts, where it stayed for three weeks; she performed a sold-out show at the London Palladium, and her televised marriage to Henrik Brixen attracted 14 million viewers. In 2000, she returned with second album Inspiration (number six) and became a TV presenter for the BBC, fronting both The National Lottery and Star for a Night, a talent show which helped launch Joss Stone. A year later, her third album, Love at the Movies, reached number 24 and she appeared in the West End production of Romeo and Juliet: The Musical. In 2005, she released her fourth album, You Belong to Me (number 21) and became a regular panelist on ITV chat show Loose Women. In 2008, following an appearance on a program revisiting the stars of The Cruise, her fifth studio album, Jane, saw her return to the Top Ten for the first time in eight years and she embarked on a sold-out theater tour across the U.K. In 2014, she released the album Singer of Your Song, and the same year embarked on a tour in support of the album. Two years later the singer launched the Making Memories tour, and the popularity of the performance extended the show's run into 2017. That same year, McDonald released her seventh album. Hold the Covers Back featured original material, and a guest spot from Spandau Ballet's Tony Hadley. ~ Jon O'Brien https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/cruising-with-jane-mcdonald/1387824485

Thank You Dave! 

Cruising With Jane McDonald

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Jane McDonald - Jane McDonald

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:38
Size: 128,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:40)  1. One Moment In Time
(4:40)  2. The Twelfth Of Never
(3:34)  3. Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
(3:06)  4. You're My World
(3:56)  5. How Do I Live?
(3:11)  6. (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman
(4:21)  7. The Wind Beneath My Wings
(3:32)  8. Downtown
(4:50)  9. Have I Told You Lately?
(3:31) 10. When I Fall In Love
(4:00) 11. I'll Never Love This Way Again
(3:47) 12. Some You Win Some You Lose
(2:50) 13. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
(4:35) 14. I Will Always Love You

Jane rocketed to stardom in 1998 when she first appeared on our screens in the BBC 1 docusoap The Cruise. The series attracted 13 million viewers and Jane McDonald emerged as a star and household name. Jane’s first album outsold her nearest rivals by four to one and gained Jane a place in the Guinness Book Of Records. It remained at Number One for three weeks and achieved platinum status staying in the Top 10 for 8 weeks. Each of Jane’s subsequent 4 major albums have all reached gold and silver status. 2009 saw the first album release under her own label. Simply titled ‘Jane’ it entered the Official UK Album Chart at Number 7 and achieved silver status within 6 weeks. Jane has built up a phenomenal theatre audience, performing incredible live concerts across the United Kingdom and Southern Ireland. During that time selling out the Royal Albert Hall and the London Palladium twice. Jane has also played to a sold out audience at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas. 

The concert was also filmed for DVD and went on to become an instant hit in the charts and the Mayor of Las Vegas presented Jane with the ‘Key To the City’. Jane was a regular panelist on the hit daytime show Loose Women and a regular guest on The Alan Titchmarch Show. Other TV highlights include, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, This Morning, GMTV and The Jonathan Ross Show. In 2015 she performed the coveted role of Grizabella in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS at Blackpool Opera House for which she received rave reviews. Jane puts her heart and soul into her sell out performances, produces her own albums on her own label, was executive producer on her CD/DVD, Live at the London Palladium and works along side her Musical Director on arrangements and recordings. She has her own design label, The Jane McDonald Collection where she works closely with her own designer on all her couture gowns featured in her concert tours. She has just finished filming her new TV show which will be shown in early 2017. She is currently on tour with “Making Memories”, her biggest and most spectacular show to date, selling out at venues all over the UK. New dates for 2017 are currently being added. https://jane-mcdonald.com/bio/

Thank You Dave!

Jane McDonald

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Jane McDonald - Inspiration

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2000
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:18
Size: 144,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:51)  1. Help Me Make It Through The Night
(3:21)  2. Maybe This Time
(4:25)  3. When You Tell Me That You Love Me
(2:30)  4. I Only Wanna Be With You
(4:14)  5. The Impossible Dream
(4:18)  6. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
(4:10)  7. You're The Inspiration
(4:01)  8. And I'm Telling You
(5:10)  9. Winner
(2:51) 10. How Can I Be Sure?
(3:23) 11. Somewhere
(3:48) 12. The Hand That Leads Me
(3:13) 13. To Sir With Love
(3:30) 14. This Is The Moment
(4:09) 15. My Heart Will Go On
(4:16) 16. Amazing Grace

One of the U.K.'s first successful reality TV recording artists, cabaret singer Jane McDonald became an overnight sensation after appearing in BBC docu-soap The Cruise. Born in Wakefield in 1963, McDonald started her singing career performing at various workingmen's clubs across the North of England, employing her father as her roadie. After working as an entertainer on several cruise ships, she retired from the business for nine months until a call from her agent persuaded her to take up one final job, a residency on The Galaxy. Coincidentally, the BBC was filming a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the day-to-day running of the cruise liner and asked McDonald if she would like to appear. Thanks to her down to earth nature and Northern sense of humor, she became the show's biggest star, and following its huge ratings success, she was signed to Focus Records. In 1998, her self-titled debut album reached number one in the U.K. charts, where it stayed for three weeks; she performed a sold-out show at the London Palladium, and her televised marriage to Henrik Brixen attracted 14 million viewers. In 2000, she returned with second album Inspiration (number six) and became a TV presenter for the BBC, fronting both The National Lottery and Star for a Night, a talent show which helped launch Joss Stone. A year later, her third album, Love at the Movies, reached number 24 and she appeared in the West End production of Romeo and Juliet: The Musical. In 2005, she released her fourth album, You Belong to Me (number 21) and became a regular panelist on ITV chat show Loose Women. In 2008, following an appearance on a program revisiting the stars of The Cruise, her fifth studio album, Jane, saw her return to the Top Ten for the first time in eight years and she embarked on a sold-out theater tour across the U.K. In 2014, she released the album Singer of Your Song, and the same year embarked on a tour in support of the album. Two years later the singer launched the Making Memories tour, and the popularity of the performance extended the show's run into 2017. That same year, McDonald released her seventh album. Hold the Covers Back featured original material, and a guest spot from Spandau Ballet's Tony Hadley. ~ John O'Brien https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jane-mcdonald-mn0000641575/biography 

Thank You Dave!

Inspiration

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Jane McDonald - Live At The London Palladium

Size: 175,6 MB
Time: 75:37
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: Pop Rock
Art: Front

01. The Hand That Leads Me (2:58)
02. It's Getting Better (3:16)
03. Give Me Time (3:18)
04. Burt Bacharach Medley (Walk On By - Do You Know The Way To San Jose - Say A Little Prayer - There's Always Something There To Remind Me) (9:15)
05. Even Now (4:24)
06. You Don't Know Me (4:31)
07. Help Me Make It Through The Night (4:16)
08. One Night Only (4:14)
09. And I Am Telling You (4:04)
10. Doctor's Orders (2:57)
11. O Mio Babbino Caro (2:37)
12. There's Not A Day Goes By (5:07)
13. Maybe This Time (3:29)
14. Motown Northern Soul Medley (Out On The Floor - Love Machine - Love Is Like A Heatwave) (6:30)
15. You're My World (3:39)
16. One Voice (3:21)
17. Disco Medley (Disco Inferno Burn Baby Burn - Giving Up Giving In - Voulez Vous - Dance Yourself Dizzy) (7:35)

Recorded live at the world famous London Palladium during her sell-out national concert tour, this sensational release (both on DVD and CD/DVD) proves once again why Jane McDonald is regarded as one of Britain's most popular and best loved entertainers. With her powerhouse vocals, amusing anecdotes and infectious, self-deprecating humour Jane, together with her fabulous 15 piece orchestra and backing singers, takes us on a roller coaster ride of emotion, bringing laughter and tears from an adoring and packed London Palladium audience, including Jane's specially invited celebrity friends.
A combination of her own compositions and covers of some of the most popular songs over the last few decades, from Burt Bacharach to ABBA, Ray Charles to Motown, huge ballads to funky disco, Live At the London Palladium provides first class entertainment. An inspired choice of songs and wonderful musical arrangements gives Jane the perfect platform to show just how talented and versatile she is.

Live At The London Palladium

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Jane McDonald - Jane

Size: 122,6 MB
Time: 52:24
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2008
Styles: Pop
Art: Front

01. Doctor's Orders (2:43)
02. Time For Love (4:19)
03. Song For You (3:25)
04. Mas Que Nada (2:43)
05. If I Knew Then (4:19)
06. How Do You Keep The Music Playing (4:50)
07. Sweet Talker (3:17)
08. If You Love Me (2:58)
09. Nine Times Out Of Ten (3:56)
10. Even Now (4:04)
11. You Do It All For Me (3:33)
12. The Hungry Years (4:05)
13. Not A Day Goes By (4:45)
14. One Voice (3:20)

Having been propelled to fame by a now long-forgotten TV reality show, The Cruise, Jane McDonald was in danger of being swallowed up by a plethora of new young singers, fresh out of talent shows. She had always been slightly different than these bright new young things, however, as her style was more akin to a cabaret lounge, or indeed a cruise ship, than a polished TV studio. And her choice of songs had always been paramount -- as definitely shown to be the case on her seventh album, Jane, released in the autumn of 2008. There was a maturity that had been lacking on several of her previous albums and indeed, McDonald's voice had improved from her early days in the recording studio at the beginning of the century. Five of the 14 songs were not even cover versions, but co-written by McDonald and Lisa Harman. The album opened with a very faithful reproduction of the Sunny Leslie hit from 1974, "Doctor's Orders," even including the phone call in the middle of the song, and continued with two slow piano-led jazzy ballads, "Time for Love" and "Song for You." What may have seemed a strange choice, the Brazilian samba rhythmic "Mas Que Nada," worked very well, and then the songs varied from uptempo 1960s-style numbers "Nine Times Out of Ten" and "Sweet Talker" to ballads "How Do You Keep the Music Playing" and "Not a Day Goes By." There were a couple of Barry Manilow covers, "Even Now" and "One Voice," and one of the highlights of the album was her version of Neil Sedaka's "The Hungry Years." One of Jane McDonald's better albums. ~by Sharon Mawer

Jane

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Jane McDonald - Hold the Covers Back

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:02
Size: 114,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:18)  1. One Step at a Time
(3:22)  2. I'll Not Be Beaten
(4:23)  3. I See It in Your Eyes (feat. Tony Hadley)
(4:21)  4. I'll Be There
(3:26)  5. Let the Light in
(3:10)  6. One More Day
(4:56)  7. The Singer of Your Song
(3:41)  8. Step Outside Your Door
(3:39)  9. The Hand That Leads Me
(4:06) 10. Hold the Covers Back
(5:38) 11. Winner
(4:57) 12. When I Look at You

One of the U.K.'s first successful reality TV recording artists, cabaret singer Jane McDonald became an overnight sensation after appearing in BBC docu-soap The Cruise. Born in Wakefield in 1963, McDonald started her singing career performing at various workingmen's clubs across the North of England, employing her father as her roadie. After working as an entertainer on several cruise ships, she retired from the business for nine months until a call from her agent persuaded her to take up one final job, a residency on The Galaxy. Coincidentally, the BBC was filming a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the day-to-day running of the cruise liner and asked McDonald if she would like to appear. Thanks to her down to earth nature and Northern sense of humor, she became the show's biggest star, and following its huge ratings success, she was signed to Focus Records. In 1998, her self-titled debut album reached number one in the U.K. charts, where it stayed for three weeks; she performed a sold-out show at the London Palladium, and her televised marriage to Henrik Brixen attracted 14 million viewers. In 2000, she returned with second album Inspiration (number six) and became a TV presenter for the BBC, fronting both The National Lottery and Star for a Night, a talent show which helped launch Joss Stone. A year later, her third album, Love at the Movies, reached number 24 and she appeared in the West End production of Romeo and Juliet: The Musical. In 2005, she released her fourth album, You Belong to Me (number 21) and became a regular panelist on ITV chat show Loose Women. In 2008, following an appearance on a program revisiting the stars of The Cruise, her fifth studio album, Jane, saw her return to the Top Ten for the first time in eight years and she embarked on a sold-out theater tour across the U.K. In 2014, she released the album Singer of Your Song, and the same year embarked on a tour in support of the album. Two years later the singer launched the Making Memories tour, and the popularity of the performance extended the show's run into 2017. That same year, McDonald released her seventh album. Hold the Covers Back featured original material, and a guest spot from Spandau Ballet's Tony Hadley. ~ Jon O'Brien https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/hold-the-covers-back/1299033996

Hold the Covers Back

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Jane McDonald - The Best Of Love (2-Disc Set)

2012 two CD collection. From club singer to TV stardom via the ocean wave: that s the voyage Jane McDonald s enjoyed in the past decade and a half. The documentary The Cruise acted as an unexpected springboard to success with a double platinum album, and as one of the stars of Loose Women she s a welcome visitor to millions of homes. Now enough of the talking: here s the music of The Best Of Love! Music Club Deluxe.

Album: The Best Of Love (Disc 1)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 55:52

Size: 127.9 MB

Styles: Easy Listening

Year: 2012

Art: Front

[3:01] 1. You're My World

[3:26] 2. This Is My Song

[4:36] 3. The Twelfth of Never

[4:46] 4. Have I Told You Lately

[3:03] 5. Where the Boys Are

[3:08] 6. (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman

[4:16] 7. The Wind Beneath My Wings

[2:22] 8. Kiss Me, Honey, Honey, Kiss Me

[3:24] 9. Little Things Mean a Lot

[2:37] 10. You're Breaking My Heart

[3:51] 11. It Must Be Him

[3:44] 12. Some You Win Some You Lose

[4:05] 13. You Belong to Me

[4:49] 14. When I Look at You

[4:35] 15. One Moment in Time

The Best Of Love (Disc 1)  

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Album: The Best Of Love (Disc 2)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 60:30

Size: 138.5 MB

Styles: Easy Listening

Year: 2012

Art: Front

[2:46] 1. You Don't Have to Say You Love

[3:16] 2. Give Me Time

[3:57] 3. i'll never love this way again

[3:30] 4. Do You Know the Way to San Jose

[3:25] 5. (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me

[3:29] 6. Downtown

[3:53] 7. How Do I Live

[4:32] 8. I Will Always Love You

[4:19] 9. I See It in Your Eyes

[4:39] 10. Kiss Me One More Time

[3:28] 11. When I Fall in Love

[3:13] 12. Behind Closed Doors

[2:58] 13. Blame It on the Bossa Nova

[7:16] 14. You're My World

[5:44] 15. Kiss Me Honey, Honey, Kiss Me

The Best Of Love (Disc 2)  

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Jane McDonald - The Singer Of Your Song (Deluxe Edition)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 68:40

Size: 157.2 MB

Styles: Easy Listening

Year: 2014

Art: Front

[3:18] 1. The Rose

[3:18] 2. Here Comes The Sun

[3:22] 3. We've Got Tonight

[4:55] 4. The Singer Of Your Song

[4:01] 5. Betcha By Golly Wow

[4:51] 6. When I Look At You

[4:16] 7. I've Never Been To Me

[3:48] 8. Love Is All

[3:47] 9. If You Go Away

[3:15] 10. Yesterday When I Was Young

[2:53] 11. God Only Knows

[2:46] 12. Guess Who I Saw Today

[4:13] 13. When October Goes

[4:17] 14. You've Made Me So Very Happy

[2:44] 15. At Last

[4:27] 16. Going Out Of My Head

[3:45] 17. From This Moment On

[4:35] 18. I'll Be There

Jane rocketed to stardom in 1998 when she first appeared on our screens in the BBC 1 docusoap The Cruise, as top of the bill on board the ship 'The Galaxy'. The series attracted 13 million viewers and Jane McDonald emerged as a star and household name, an incredible 13 years later her career continues to take her to amazing heights.

Jane’s first album outsold her nearest rivals by four to one and gained Jane a place in the Guinness Book Of Records. It remained at Number One for three weeks and achieved platinum status staying in the Top 10 for 8 weeks. Each of Jane’s subsequent 4 major albums have all reached gold and silver status. 2009 saw the first album release under her own label. Simply titled Jane the CD entered the Official UK Album Chart at Number 7 and achieved silver status within 6 weeks.

Jane oversees everything to do with her own company Jane McDonald Ltd. She puts her heart and soul into her sell out performances, produces her own albums on her own label, is executive producer on her latest CD/DVD, Live at the London Palladium and works along side her Musical Director on arrangements and recordings. She has her own design label, The Jane McDonald Collection where she works closely with her own designer on all her couture gowns featured in her concert tours. For almost 14 years Jane has built up a phenomenal theatre audience, performing incredible live concerts across the United Kingdom and Southern Ireland. During that time selling out the Royal Albert Hall, and the London Palladium twice. Jane has also played to a sold out audience at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas.

The Singer Of Your Song (Deluxe Edition)

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