Alan Bergman, along with his wife and partner Marilyn, have written the lyrics to some of the best-loved songs in popular music history. “The Windmills of Your Mind” and “The Way We Were” were awarded both the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Song and the latter also won 2 GRAMMY Awards. Their score for Yentl also won an Oscar and their work has received a staggering total of 16 nominations. Lyrically finds Alan in the company of top-notch musicians from the world of jazz, as he turns his Chet Baker-like vocal stylings to a number of his signature tunes including “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?” and “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers.”
Listening to an Alan Bergman album where he sings his own songs will force listeners to realize that the same man was responsible for writing one of Frank Sinatra’s breeziest finger-snappers, “Nice ‘n’ Easy,” as well as the metaphysical cypher “The Windmills of Your Mind.” What the songs of Bergman and his wife, Marilyn, have in common is a bittersweet wistfulness, an autumnal nostalgia at life passing by as we watch it go (or ignore it until our twilight years). Their songs speak to promise but also regret. In the notes, Marilyn tells the story of “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?,” which was the result when film director Richard Brooks requested a song that could be played over the beginning of a relationship and also, with lyric and music unchanged, after the relationship had been broken. Like virtually all great songwriters, Bergman has excellent interpretive skills when he turns to singing the song, but his voice is noticeably weak. The arrangements of Jörg Keller and Jeremy Lubbock tend to make a virtue of his faults, and occasionally, Bergman himself turns it to his advantage; the naked beginning of “The Windmills of Your Mind” couldn’t be any more spine-tingling – except if the lyrics made any earthly sense.
Review by John Bush, Allmusic.com
Followers of the marvellous songwriting team of Alan and Marilyn Bergman would have been astounded to learn of Alan’s surprising vocal debut. For decades they have delighted all people who love classy music and are probably best known for working with Michel Legrand, Johnny Mandel and Dave Grusin.This astonishing debut work is brimming over with immaculate performances and lyrical mastery. As his wife Marilyn says in the sleeve notes “This is with Pride and Prejudice”. Each track displays that his timing, pitch and phrasing is quite amazing. If you want to listen to poignant, emotional music, then, in my humble opinion, this is the best album released in 2007. It is difficult to single out individual tracks since all have an individual sensitivity. However, I’ll just mention one to wet your appetite. The song “What Matter Most” (a little jewel of a melody originally beautifully sung by Kenny Rankin) gets unbelievable emotion from Alan, and closes the album. On a personal note, if I had to name one song as my favourite over a lifetime of loving and listening to music – this would be it! Bravo Alan
Review by Mr. B. Pugh, Amazon.com
Alan Bergman at Allmusic
Alan Bergman Website
Alan Bergman at Wiki
Tracklist:
01. The Windmills Of Your Mind (3:41)
02. Nice ‘N’ Easy (3:02)
03. The Summer Knows (4:30)
04. It Might Be You (3:32)
05. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life (4:37)
06. That Face (3:41)
07. Love Like Ours (3:47)
08. You Don’t Bring Me Flowers (3:02)
09. Where Do You Start (4:43)
10. How Do You Keep The Music Playing (4:04)
11. And I’ll Be There (3:49)
12. The Way We Were (4:36)
13. What Matters Most (2:24)
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