Memorable Soul Ballads

Track Listings

1. Stand By Me - Ben E. King

2. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters

3. I've Been Loving You Too Long - Percy Sledge

4. Love T.K.O. - Teddy Pendergrass

5. Hotel Happiness - Brook Benton

6. Tracks Of My Tears - Paul Young

7. You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Trammps

8. Have You Seen Her - The Chi-Lites

9. My Guy - Mary Wells

10. It's A Man's Man's Man's World - James Brown

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Tracks:

Stand By Me - Ben E. King
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters
Ive Been Loving You Too Long - Percy Sledge
Love T.K.O. - Teddy Pendergrass
Hotel Happiness - Brook Benton
Tracks Of My Tears - Paul Young
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Trammps
Have You Seen Her - The Chi-Lites
My Guy - Mary Wells
Its A Mans Mans Mans World - James Brown

Average customer rating:

May be his strongest album yet.....

Don't You Know
Kyle Vincent
Manufacturer: Songtree Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007LZKDY
Release Date: 2005-02-08

Tracks:

Don't You Know
The Ballad of Dana & Mary
Soul
Red
Sweet Alice Brook
Tomorrow We'll Try Again
One Last Ride On The Merry-Go-Round
Sister Hold On
The Ghost Of Rock n' Roll
When He Was Young
The Last Hawk

Album Description

One of the most critically acclaimed and successful contemporary singers & songwriters in the U.S. returns with an album chock full of instantly memorable, lyrically hip pop gems. With equal parts Pop, Folk, R&B, Power Pop, and ballads, this sweet, catchy, and heartfelt melodic music is produced so well it sparkles out of your speakers and into your soul.

Album Details

Solo Album from the Former Candy Vocalist.

Customer Reviews:

May be his strongest album yet............2005-02-17

In the '90s, singer-songwriter Kyle Vincent left behind his pop-rock band Candy and moved from being an opening act for Barry Manilow to scoring a Top 20 hit in 1997 with "Wake Me Up (When the World's Worth Waking Up For)." Since then, his career hasn't had the pop chart visibility his talent should support.

While the radio hits have been lacking, he's released a couple of seductively warm collections of material on his own label, the latest being Don't You Know, which may be his strongest album yet.

Part of the reason Vincent has probably been passed over by the major labels is his penchant for sounding a bit out of step with music today. While his songs might sound a little out of place amid the pop hits on The Mix - 101.9-FM, they would fit in perfectly with the other love song classics on The Lite - 93.9-FM.

For fans of 1970s radio pop, Vincent is the second coming. Vocally, he has the rich, evocative sound that helped the Cassidy brothers - Shaun and David - as '70s pop idols. And his songwriting references the sweetest ballads of the '70s and '80s, garnering comparisons to Air Supply, John Denver, The Carpenters, and Manilow. With rich, layered harmonies, just the right touch of strings and lots of strumming guitars, Don't You Know is an album of pop lost in time.

A perfect Valentine's Day listen, Don't You Know includes a gorgeous, heartstring-pulling hymn to a grandmother in "One Last Ride on the Merry-Go-Round," (if you can listen to this without a lump in your throat by the end, you are also probably boycotting Valentine's Day!). It offers a supportive "I'm on my way to help you" anthem for a sibling in "Sister Hold On" and a love song to, of all things, a stream in "Sweet Alice Brook." There is bittersweet personal conflict in the lost dreams of "Soul," where Vincent sings to an uncreated child about why he can't see his way to bringing it into this world until we've achieved more love, beauty and peace.

It's not all quiet crooning though; the opening title track has some "Wake Me Up" style pop legs as Vincent sings of a love that begins in line at "the Stop n' Shop" (only a guy from California could drop in the phrase "soy ice cream" in a pop song and get away with it). And his electric guitar gets a bit of a workout on "The Ghost of Rock `n' Roll," a homage to Casey Kasem and the 45s of Vincent's youth that begs to be played at a sock hop somewhere.

Vincent has a pop pen that can warm the coolest heart; don't miss this wonderfully realized collection of ballads and nostalgic-but-new pop songs. For more information, check his Web site at www.kylevincent.com.

-John Everson

Originally published in The Star Newspapers February 3, 2005