Anne Murray - Duets, Friends and Legends - Music & Performance - CD

This is a greatest hits collection, recorded as duets, with the worlds best female voices: Nelly Furtado, Martina McBride, Olivia Newton-John, Amy Grant, Celtic Woman and many more!!! Includes new recordings of Anne Murray's biggest career hits "SongBird," "Dannys Song," "A Love Song," "Could I Have This Dance," and many more.

For her 34th studio album, Anne Murray recorded a set of duets with many of her favorite female singers, from Nelly Furtado to Sarah Brightman. There are a number of country duet partners here, such as Shania Twain, Emmylou Harris, and Martina McBride, but there are even more pop-oriented women singing with Murray, encompassing the likes of Celtic Woman and Celine Dion. This makes perfect sense, as Murray's always straddled the pop-country fence effortlessly. Her singing on Duets: Friends and Legends is just as effortless. Now in her fifth decade as an active recording artist, her voice hasn't lost a beat, sounding just as pure and clear as it did on 1970s "Snowbird" (done here with a surprisingly relaxed, easy vocal from Brightman, sounding for all the world like a young Olivia Newton-John). The majority of these songs are ones which have been sizeable hits for Murray in the past, most of which work nicely recast as duets, or at least showcases for harmony singing. There are exceptions, of course: sadly, the late Dusty Springfield's voice doesn't fit "I Just Fall in Love Again" at all, and Nelly Furtado sounds mightily out of place on "Daydream Believer." But for each of those there's an Emmylou Harris on "Another Pot o' Tea," k.d. lang matching Murray perfectly on "A Love Song," and most of all, Shania Twain showing up with what might be the best vocal of her career on the classic "You Needed Me." Murray clearly inspired most of her duet partners to bring their "A" games, and since she's pretty much always on hers (and Phil Ramone, of all people, provides sterling production which knows when to stay out of the way), what results is often magical. ~ Thomas Inskeep, All Music Guide

Performer	Anne Murray
Music genre	Opera / Vocal
Music subgenre	Vocal - Female
Media format	CD
Original release date	2008
Language	English
Is collectible	Y
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Series title	Anne Murray - Duets, Friends and Legends
Track listing	Danny's Song - Anne Murray, Loggins, Kenny, I Just Fall in Love Again - Anne Murray, Dorff, Steve, Another Pot O' Tea - Anne Murray, Grady, Paul, Daydream Believer - Anne Murray, Stewart, John [1], Somebody's Always Saying Goodbye - Anne Murray, McDill, Bob, Song for the Mira - Anne Murray, MacGillivray, Allis, Time Don't Run Out on Me - Anne Murray, King, Carole, Cotton Jenny - Anne Murray, Lightfoot, Gordon, A Love Song - Anne Murray, Loggins, Kenny, You Needed Me - Anne Murray, Goodrum, Randy, Nobody Loves Me Like You Do - Anne Murray, Dunne, James P, You Won't See Me - Anne Murray, Lennon, John, Could I Have This Dance - Anne Murray, Holyfield, w, A Little Good News - Anne Murray, Black, Charlie, Snowbird - Anne Murray, MacLellan, Gene, When I Fall in Love - Anne Murray, Young, Victor, Si Jamais Je Te Revois (If I Ever See You Again) - Anne Murray, Rice, Bill
Record label	Manhattan Records
Target audience	General/trade
Songwriter	Anne Murray
Track name	SongBird
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N