Barbra Streisand Guilty

There is no one like Barbra Streisand. There's never been a singer like her. As Release Me 2 proves over and over again, even a duet with a frog puppet can be magic if it includes her voice. But… Release Me 2 is pure audible catnip, a career-stretching, for-fans release of all previously unreleased tracks (and companion to 2012's first volume). Like any truly great singer, Streisand makes each song here her own. Most comfortable in lush arrangements that allow her to soar, and ever willing to wade into schmaltz no matter how many violins, flutes or glockenspiels are involved, she's notoriously careful to choose settings for her incredible instrument that exude a certain epic crooner vibe. On an album in which none of the players behind her are given credit, this old pro easily knocks numbers like Michel Legrand's "Once You've Been in Love" or the Arlen/Harburg chestnut "Right as the Rain," (recorded in 1962 before her first album) out of the park.

Barbra Streisand - One Voice

Their Greatest Hits: The Record is the career retrospective greatest hits album by the Bee Gees, released on UTV Records and Polydor in November 2001 as HDCD. The album includes 40 tracks spanning over 35 years of music. Four of the songs were new recordings of classic Gibb compositions originally recorded by other artists, including "Emotion" (Samantha Sang), "Heartbreaker" (Dionne Warwick), "Islands in the Stream" (Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton), and "Immortality" (Celine Dion). It also features the Barry Gibb duet with Barbra Streisand, "Guilty", which originally appeared on Streisand's 1980 album of the same name. It is currently out of print and has been supplanted by another compilation, The Ultimate Bee Gees.

Amazon Review by JRK: Bought this to get hold on one particular track that I couldn't find anywhere else… and discovered many others that I'd only heard on white label back in the 80s. Took me right back to my yoof! Some real gems on here - proper rare - with others more obvious and widely available.
A few of the tracks are obviously recorded straight from vinyl - a few clicks and hisses, and even a small jump at the end of one track (something for all the vinyl junkies out there). Shame that some of the tracks are faded out too soon but then they have crammed 100 tracks onto 5 CDs. Large value!