Adult contemporary

Sarah Brightman & The London Symphony Orchestra – Time To Say Goodbye (1997) {2004, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

March 12, 2020

Sarah Brightman & The London Symphony Orchestra - Time To Say Goodbye (1997) {2004, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Sarah Brightman & The London Symphony Orchestra – Time To Say Goodbye (1997) {2004, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 3.86 GB (ISO) + 2.77 GB (FLAC Mch) + 1.02 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Angel Records | Germany | Cat#: 07243 5 57402 2 9 | Genre: Adult Contemporary

In the pop music world of the 1950s and 1960s, when you scored a hit single, you used to put together an album featuring the hit as the title song, with the disc filled out by soundalike songs that, with any luck, might give you a follow-up hit. Apparently, the world of contemporary classical crossover isn’t much different. Sarah Brightman, who enjoyed a European hit with “Time to Say Goodbye,” her duet with Andrea Bocelli, constructed an album beginning with that recording and continuing in kind.Read More

Adult contemporary

David Foster – The Best Of Me (1983) {1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

March 10, 2020

David Foster - The Best Of Me (1983) {1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

David Foster – The Best Of Me (1983) {1984, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 965 MB (Hi-Res) + 251 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-123 | Genre: Adult Contemporary
Half-Speed Mastered

This album really didn’t get the attention it deserved. All of the songs are amazing from Chicago’s hit Hard To Say I’m Sorry to Love At Second Sight all of the songs are special. Though i prefer The Best Of Me with Olivia Newton-John, this version still great.Read More

Adult contemporary

Sarah Brightman – Eden (1998) {2004, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

March 7, 2020

Sarah Brightman - Eden (1998) {2004, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Sarah Brightman – Eden (1998) {2004, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Scans Included
Total Size: 4.37 GB (ISO) + 3.19 GB (FLAC Mch) + 1.17 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Angel Records | Germany | Cat#: 07243 5 57795 2 6 | Genre: Vocal, Adult Contemporary

Sarah Brightman’s 1999 release Eden applies her rich, supple voice to 16 tracks that range from classical to pop to haunting ballads. The album features “Il Mio Cuore Va,” Titanic’s “My Heart Will Go On” sung in Italian; “Scene d’Amour,” the theme from The English Patient; and “Nessun Dorma” from Puccini’s Turandot. Brightman’s pop side emerges with tracks like “Dust in the Wind” and the Richard Marx-written and -produced “The Last Words You Said.” Eden’s wide range and Brightman’s beautiful voice are a winning combination.Read More

Adult contemporary

Sarah Brightman – La Luna (2000) {2004, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

March 7, 2020

Sarah Brightman - La Luna (2000) {2004, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Sarah Brightman – La Luna (2000) {2004, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 4.03 GB (ISO) + 3.17 GB (FLAC Mch) + 1.16 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Angel Records | Germany | Cat#: 07243 5 57794 2 7 | Genre: Vocal, Adult Contemporary

Broadway star Sarah Brightman lends her ethereal, angelic vocals to another combination of classical and pop, resulting in a solid, stirring collection. This outing, the ex-Mrs. Andrew Lloyd Webber adapts Rachmaninov (“How Fare This Spot”), Beethoven (“Figlio Perduto”), and Handel (“Solo Con Te”) alongside the brothers Gibb and Simon and Garfunkel. The uncanny thing is how canny Brightman is at bridging the contemporary with the classics so that they seem timeless.Read More

Adult contemporary

Kim Carnes – Mistaken Identity (1981) {MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

March 3, 2020

Kim Carnes - Mistaken Identity (1981) {MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Kim Carnes – Mistaken Identity (1981) {MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 898 MB (Hi-Res) + 249 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL1-073 | Genre: Pop
Half-Speed Mastered

Mistaken Identity should have established Kim Carnes as a huge international star. Her Rod Stewart rasp, affiliation with Kenny Rogers, management by Ken Kragen when he was arguably at his peak, makes one wonder why the across-the-board success of “Bette Davis Eyes” couldn’t be duplicated. Three years after the success of this album, Tina Turner actually did conquer the world, the various producers on Private Dancer weaving enough different textures to make for a multi-dimensional masterpiece.Read More

Adult contemporary, Pop

Melissa Manchester – Melissa (1975) {1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

February 27, 2020

Melissa Manchester - Melissa (1975) {1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Melissa Manchester – Melissa (1975) {1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 848 MB (Hi-Res) + 231 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed in Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-028 | Genre: Adult Contemporary
Half-Speed Mastered

Fired by Columbia Records in 1973, Clive Davis took over tiny Bell Records in 1974 and turned it into Arista, determined to re-establish his record-selling credentials. One beneficiary of this was Melissa Manchester, who had made two good, but poor-selling albums for Bell. Davis turned on the money tap, and the result was this L.A.-recorded Vini Poncia/Richard Perry production that seemed determined to turn Manchester into a pop diva.Read More

Adult contemporary

Various Artists – Telarc SACD Sampler I (2002) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

January 8, 2020

Various Artists - Telarc SACD Sampler I (2002) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Various Artists – Telarc SACD Sampler I (2002) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 4.31 GB (ISO) + 3.31 GB (FLAC Mch) + 1.21 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Telarc | US | Cat#: SACD-60006 | Genre: Jazz, Classical, Easy Listening

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Adult contemporary, Classical, Jazz

Barry Manilow – Barry Manilow I (1973) {1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

January 4, 2020

Barry Manilow - Barry Manilow I (1973) {1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Barry Manilow – Barry Manilow I (1973) {1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 799 MB (Hi-Res) + 232 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed in Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-097 | Genre: Adult Contemporary
Half-Speed Mastered

Barry Manilow’s debut album proves to be a far different animal than its glitzier successors; it’s fairly raw and unpolished, though his dramatic vocal style is already well established here. The material roams from impassioned balladeering (“I Am Your Child,” “One of These Days”) to chunky country (“Sweetwater Jones”), driving rock (“Oh My Lady”), and ’40s-style swing (“Cloudburst”) — and that’s just side one. “Could It Be Magic,” of course, is what pulled Manilow above the pack; it’s a textbook summary of the dramatic orchestration and swooning vocals that have long marked his style.Read More

Adult contemporary

Karla Bonoff – Restless Nights (1979) {2018, Japan, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

October 1, 2019

Karla Bonoff - Restless Nights (1979) {2018, Japan, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Karla Bonoff – Restless Nights (1979) {2018, Japan, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.55 GB (ISO) + 737 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Stereo Sound Publishing, Inc | Japan | Cat#: SSVS004 | Genre: Adult Contemporary

Karla Bonoff seems to have had some trouble coming up with material for her second album, which may explain why it took two years (a long time in the ’70s) and contained covers of “When You Walk in the Room” and “The Water Is Wide,” and also why the originals weren’t as uniformly excellent as those on her first album. True, leadoff track “Trouble Again” was a gem (as Linda Ronstadt proved when she recorded it on her Cry Like a Rainstorm — Howl Like the Wind album in 1989), but some of the other material was only pedestrian.Read More

Adult contemporary

Kenny Rogers – The Gambler (1978) {1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

May 23, 2019

Kenny Rogers - The Gambler (1978) {1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Kenny Rogers – The Gambler (1978) {1980, MFSL Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Format / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 797 MB (Hi-Res) + 217 MB (CD-Format) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Japan JVC Pressed | Cat#: MFSL 1-044 | Genre: Adult Contemporary
Half-Speed Mastered

Kenny Rogers took a bit of a chance in releasing this loosly based concept album at the time, but boy, did it pay off! Sales for the album went through the roof, as the title track and “She Believes In Me” became pop crossover hits, with the latter reaching the pop Top 10. Later, “The Gambler” was turned into a string of made-for-television movies.Read More

Adult contemporary

Neil Diamond – The Jazz Singer (1980) {MFSL Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

May 15, 2019

Neil Diamond - The Jazz Singer (1980) {MFSL Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Neil Diamond – The Jazz Singer (1980) {MFSL Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Format / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 978 MB (Hi-Res) + 347 MB (CD-Format) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Japan JVC Pressed | Cat#: MFSL 1-071 | Genre: Soundtrack, Adult Contemporary
Half-Speed Mastered

Neil Diamond’s 1980 screen turn as a charismatic singer torn between Jewish tradition and pop music stardom spawned this phenomenally successful soundtrack album — six million copies and counting. Diamond’s 21st century resurgence as a walking item of kitsch has sparked renewed interest in the bombastic melting-pot jam “America,” as well as his signature late-career ballad “Hello Again.” In addition, the lite FM favorite “Love on the Rocks” is classic, raw-throated Neil.Read More

Adult contemporary, Soundtrack

Linda Ronstadt – Live In Hollywood (2019) {WEB, CD-Format + Hi-Res}

February 3, 2019

Linda Ronstadt - Live In Hollywood (2019) {WEB, CD-Format + Hi-Res}

Linda Ronstadt – Live In Hollywood (2019) {WEB, CD-Format + Hi-Res}
WEB Download | FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz / CD-Format | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz / Hi-Res
Total Size: 317 MB (CD-Format) + 975 MB (Hi-Res) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Rhino | Genre: Country Rock, Adult Contemporary

LIVE IN HOLLYWOOD features amazing performances from a concert that Ronstadt recorded in 1980 for her acclaimed HBO television special. Recorded on April 24, 1980 at Television Center Studios in Hollywood, and produced by John Boylan, the concert captures Ronstadt at the peak of her reign as America’s most popular female rock singer. For LIVE IN HOLLYWOOD, Ronstadt selected 12 of her favorite performances from the original concert. Read More

Adult contemporary, Country Rock