Romantically Yours

Track Listings

1. Up Where We Belong

2. If Ever I Would Leave You

3. Summer of '42

4. Try to Remember

5. Autumn Leaves

6. Yesterday, When I Was Young

7. What I Did for Love

8. What Kind of Fool Am I?

9. I Don't Know How to Love Him

10. Vie en Rose

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Romantically Yours

Tracks:

Up Where We Belong
If Ever I Would Leave You
Summer of '42
Try to Remember
Autumn Leaves
Yesterday, When I Was Young
What I Did for Love
What Kind of Fool Am I?
I Don't Know How to Love Him
Vie en Rose

Customer Reviews:

Giovanni - Romanticaaly Yours.......2003-06-13

This is another outstanding album by Giovanni. This album and his album 'Romance' rank at the top of our list for wonderful listening. His arrangements are very rich and are equally nice for background music when entertaining or when you just want to kick back and relax. Highly recommended!

Average customer rating:

Marvin Stills deserves 5 stars!!
A Bit Disappointed 'bout this one
Marvin didn't want these recordings released.
Radiating Brilliance
Marvin Gaye- Romantically Yours (1985, Columbia)

Romantically Yours
Marvin Gaye
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1989-10-05

Tracks:

More
Why Did I Choose You?
Maria
The Shadow Of Your Smile
Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
I Won't Cry Anymore
Just Like
Walkin' In The Rain
I Live For You
Stranger In My Life
Happy Go Lucky

Customer Reviews:

Marvin Stills deserves 5 stars!!.......2005-05-07

It was hard to give three stars on this one because Marvin Gaye is flawless, but I would suggest you buy "Vunerable" instead, Marvin Jr. found his soul on the "Vunerable" cuts.

A Bit Disappointed 'bout this one.......2005-01-08

I found more eager to listen to but since I download it I found it more even to listen. Peer to me, most people say that this was not his best work yet but soon before Vulnerable, it changed the whole world. I can't say I hate it, but 1 day I'll buy it and see it's cool.[...], 4 being a lil hard on this album, you should either write positive 'bout it or else just quit, for example, I luv u man, but u need 2 get your act 2gether, I don't why u're dissin' on this album. Anyway, long period short. This was recorded in the mid-sixties when Motown and Columbia announced they decision not to release it. Now that's [...], since I read the book from David Ritz, I found it more obvious than it has been. People need to understand what this album is comin' thru. Anyway the most songs that interests me are Just Like, I Live 4 You, Walkin' in the Rain, The Shadow of your Smile, and many others I can't thing at this moment.
First of all, get this album 'cuz they're no reason living w/o it. God bless.

Marvin didn't want these recordings released........2004-08-03

The second compilation from Columbia and Motown of previously unreleased material from Marvin, ROMANTICALLY YOURS is, if nothing else, not as crass a release as DREAM OF A LIFETIME. Most people know that Marvin had long dreamed of being a ballad crooner in the Sinatra mode, and that he worked on an album of such material for 12 years before declining to release it. The completed material (which is what Marvin was proud of) was eventually released in 1997 as VULNERABLE.

What's really bizarre is that ROMANTICALLY YOURS (which was released in 1985) contains the ballad recordings that Marvin made in the mid-sixties, and was reportedly unsatisfied with. And when listening to this album, it's easy to see why. Throughout the 12 years that Marvin worked on his ballad album, he grew tremendously as a vocalist and interpreter. Comparing this to VULNERABLE is like night and day. By 1978 (which is when the material on VULNERABLE was completed) Marvin had perfected his style of delivering these standards in a manner that was both new and traditional at the same time. On those recordings, his multi-layered vocals are pure, beautiful, and soulful.

However, on the recordings that are presented on ROMANTICALLY YOURS (most of which were recorded in 1966), Marvin sounds like he doesn't know exactly how should interpret this material. Throughout the entire disc, he sounds detached and mechanical. This is especially noticeable on the three songs that were later repeated on VULNERABLE ("Why Did I Choose You," "The Shadow of Your Smile," "I Won't Cry Anymore"). VULNERABLE contains the renditions of these three songs that Marvin recorded in 1978, while ROMANTICALLY YOURS includes the 1966 versions. When listening to both, it's amazing how much Marvin grew as a vocalist in that twelve year period.

This disc also includes a few show tunes ("Maria," "More"), as well as Marvin's take on a Sinatra classic ("Fly Me To the Moon"), and his performances of these songs are just as stiff as the rest. The last half of the record consists of original songs that are supposed to sound like standards (four of which written by Marvin himself, "Happy Go Lucky" written by none other than Norman Whitfield and Eddie Holland), and all five tunes are listenable, but faceless and unmemorable. While this album is easier to listen to than DREAM OF A LIFETIME, it still represents Columbia and Motown trying to make a profit on music that Marvin never wanted released in the first place.

Radiating Brilliance.......2002-12-09

One year ago I collected this CD and was estactically surprised. The sensitive and sensual Marvin Gaye is nothing short of his usual outstanding performance. Yet this collection was beautifully original in song selection, arrangement, and production. I cannot keep these beautiful performances out of the changer. If you like standards or soul then this CD is essential. If you like BOTH then this CD will immediately become the pride and joy of your romantic life as well.

Marvin Gaye- Romantically Yours (1985, Columbia).......2002-09-20

"Romantically Yours" is an album of older songs by Marvin Gaye that was released after his death, in 1985. Very abnormal from Marvin's usual style, these songs are re-makes of old-timey classics like "Maria", "Just Like" & "The Shadow of Your Smile". It also happened to be one of Marvin's 3 best albums ever made. It's a collection of previously unreleased material that is not made for the people who expect another "Midnight Love", "Let's Get it On" or even his final "Dream of a Lifetime". "Romantically Yours" is a soothing, easy-listening album with songs oddly, but perfectly, made by Marvin Gaye, who's really known for making songs about peace, love, love-making and desirous feeling in the '70s & '80s.

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