Time: 37:53
Size: 86.7 MB
Styles: Easy Listening
Year: 1999
Art: Front
[3:58] 1. Kiss Me In The Rain
[3:21] 2. Didn't We
[2:49] 3. Pussywillows, Cattails, Soft Wind And Roses
[2:18] 4. A Simple Song
[3:11] 5. A Love Song
[3:27] 6. The Rose
[2:08] 7. Here's That Rainy Day
[2:38] 8. If You Feel The Way I Do
[3:09] 9. Rain Brings People Together
[2:03] 10. The Importance Of The Rose
[3:10] 11. Rainy Day People
[2:42] 12. Daybreak
[2:52] 13. Stop And Smell The Roses
The Laurie Bower Singers always excelled at creating soothing, ear-pleasing harmonies with their covers of popular songs of the 1970s and 1980s. Although their recordings seemed tailor-made for "Beautiful Music" (or, if you prefer the more derogatory term, "elevator music" or "Muzak") radio stations which have all but disappeared from the dial, they can be enjoyed as legitimate cover versions. If you still have a Beautiful Music or Adult Standards radio station that still plays some of the true "easy listening" music in your neck of the woods, you may have heard their music, though you may not have known the artist. On this CD, with songs themed around rain and roses, they tackle songs best known by Gordon Lightfoot ("Rainy Day People"), Barbra Streisand ("Kiss Me In The Rain"), Kenny Rogers ("A Love Song"), Barry Manilow ("Daybreak"), and Mac Davis ("Stop And Smell The Roses"). Particularly pleasing are their takes on "A Love Song" and "Kiss Me In The Rain," which they turn into the soft, sweet, soothing ballad it sounds like it was meant to be (Barbra's version is wonderful, but it can get a little overblown, especially toward the end, when she sings "I don't even mind if we get wet" and suddenly jumps a full octave - and begins to scream at the top of her lungs - on the word "wet"). No screaming here, just delightful harmonies that will soothe you and which work just as well as "foreground" music as "background" music. ~Christopher Bubb
The Roses And The Rain
