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The conceit of this double album-length set is that Nana Mouskouri is doing songs from different nations. However, even though Passport is a compilation recorded over a span of over a decade with a variety of accompanists ranging from Mouskouri's original backing group, the Athenians, to the easy listening specialists the Mike Sammes Singers, the albums sounds as if it could have been recorded during one lengthy session. Such is the strength of Mouskouri's jazzy, middle-of-the-road pop style that songs as varied as her biggest hit, "Never on Sunday" (here presented in its original Greek lyrics as "Ta Pedia Tou Pirea"), Paul Simon's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and the traditional "Amazing Grace" end up sounding pretty much the same. Passport's worth depends entirely on the listener's tolerance for this kind of Eurovision Song Contest style of pop, but few people working in this style in the '60s and '70s were better than Nana Mouskouri. (Only the great Petula Clark comes immediately to mind.) Although perhaps better known in the United States for her lovely olive-skinned looks and trademark glasses than for her singing, Mouskouri's a genuinely superb jazz-pop singer with a bewitching voice and an ear for material that rises above the occasionally gloppy easy listening arrangements she's often saddled with. Unfortunately, there's more than a few of those arrangements on Passport, but there's also a number of truly impressive songs. Two particular standouts come from rare sessions with producers other than Mouskouri's usual collaborator Andre Chapelle. The countryish "The Loving Song," produced by American hitmaker Snuff Garrett, is a surprisingly solid take on the genre, but 1972's "Four and Twenty Hours," written and produced by the early-'70s British hit factory Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, is one of Mouskouri's finest singles ever, a mature but remarkably catchy slice of AM radio fluff that predicts the sound that ABBA would take to the top of the charts later in the decade.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
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Manos Hadjidakis, ComposerLyricist - Nana Mouskouri, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - André Chapelle, Producer
℗ 1969 Mercury Music Group
PIERRE DELANOE, Author - Michel Fugain, Composer - Nana Mouskouri, MainArtist
℗ 1969 Mercury Music Group
Christian Chevallier, Conductor - Peter Yarrow, ComposerLyricist - Nana Mouskouri, MainArtist - André Chapelle, Producer
℗ 1969 Mercury Music Group
Manos Hadjidakis, Composer, Author - Jacques Denjean, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Nana Mouskouri, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - J. Denjean Et Son Orchestre, Chamber Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - André Chapelle, Producer
℗ 1963 Mercury Music Group
George Petsilas, ComposerLyricist - Harold David Shaper, ComposerLyricist - PIERRE DELANOE, ComposerLyricist - Nana Mouskouri, MainArtist - André Chapelle, Producer
℗ 1969 Mercury Music Group
Alain Goraguer, Arranger, Recording Arranger, Music Director & Conductor, Work Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Alain Goraguer Et Son Orchestre, Chamber Orchestra, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Nana Mouskouri, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Paul-Egide Martini, Composer - Jean Pierre Claris de Florian, Author - André Chapelle, Producer
℗ 1971 Mercury Music Group
SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Lee Pockriss, ComposerLyricist - Nana Mouskouri, MainArtist - Elaine Laron, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1974 Mercury Music Group
Tom Jones, ComposerLyricist - Harvey Schmidt, ComposerLyricist - Nana Mouskouri, MainArtist - André Chapelle, Producer
℗ 1969 Mercury Music Group
Mitch Murray, ComposerLyricist - Peter Callander, ComposerLyricist - Nana Mouskouri, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - André Chapelle, Producer
℗ 1970 Mercury Music Group
Manos Hadjidakis, ComposerLyricist - Nana Mouskouri, MainArtist - André Chapelle, Producer
℗ 1970 Mercury Music Group
Nikos Gatsos, Composer - Manos Hadjidakis, Author - Nana Mouskouri, MainArtist
℗ 1973 Mercury Music Group
Manos Hadjidakis, ComposerLyricist - Nana Mouskouri, MainArtist - André Chapelle, Producer
℗ 1970 Mercury Music Group
Paul Simon, ComposerLyricist - Nana Mouskouri, MainArtist - André Chapelle, Producer
℗ 1970 Mercury Music Group
Peter Knight, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - DON MCLEAN, ComposerLyricist - Nana Mouskouri, MainArtist - André Chapelle, Producer
℗ 1973 Mercury Music Group
Edith Piaf, ComposerLyricist - Parsons, ComposerLyricist - Nana Mouskouri, MainArtist - Marguerite Angèle Monnot, ComposerLyricist - André Chapelle, Producer
℗ 1973 Mercury Music Group
Rod McKuen, Translator - Jacques Brel, ComposerLyricist - Peter Knight, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Nana Mouskouri, MainArtist - The King's Singers, Chorus, AssociatedPerformer - André Chapelle, Producer
℗ 1974 Mercury Music Group
Thomas Moore, ComposerLyricist - Nana Mouskouri, MainArtist - André Chapelle, Producer - Georges Newton, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 1969 Mercury Music Group
George Petsilas, Arranger, Work Arranger - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - MICHEL JOURDAN, Arranger, Work Arranger - Frederick Fennell, Arranger, Work Arranger - Nana Mouskouri, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - André Chapelle, Producer
℗ 1969 Mercury Music Group
Roger Cook, ComposerLyricist - Roger Greenaway, ComposerLyricist - Francesco Reitano, ComposerLyricist - Vito Pallavicini, ComposerLyricist - Lew Warburton, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Nana Mouskouri, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Beniamino Reitano, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1972 Mercury Music Group
Tomas Mendez Sosa, ComposerLyricist - Rae, ComposerLyricist - Nana Mouskouri, MainArtist - André Chapelle, Producer
℗ 1996 Mercury Music Group
Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Nana Mouskouri, MainArtist
℗ 1976 Mercury Music Group
Album review
The conceit of this double album-length set is that Nana Mouskouri is doing songs from different nations. However, even though Passport is a compilation recorded over a span of over a decade with a variety of accompanists ranging from Mouskouri's original backing group, the Athenians, to the easy listening specialists the Mike Sammes Singers, the albums sounds as if it could have been recorded during one lengthy session. Such is the strength of Mouskouri's jazzy, middle-of-the-road pop style that songs as varied as her biggest hit, "Never on Sunday" (here presented in its original Greek lyrics as "Ta Pedia Tou Pirea"), Paul Simon's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and the traditional "Amazing Grace" end up sounding pretty much the same. Passport's worth depends entirely on the listener's tolerance for this kind of Eurovision Song Contest style of pop, but few people working in this style in the '60s and '70s were better than Nana Mouskouri. (Only the great Petula Clark comes immediately to mind.) Although perhaps better known in the United States for her lovely olive-skinned looks and trademark glasses than for her singing, Mouskouri's a genuinely superb jazz-pop singer with a bewitching voice and an ear for material that rises above the occasionally gloppy easy listening arrangements she's often saddled with. Unfortunately, there's more than a few of those arrangements on Passport, but there's also a number of truly impressive songs. Two particular standouts come from rare sessions with producers other than Mouskouri's usual collaborator Andre Chapelle. The countryish "The Loving Song," produced by American hitmaker Snuff Garrett, is a surprisingly solid take on the genre, but 1972's "Four and Twenty Hours," written and produced by the early-'70s British hit factory Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, is one of Mouskouri's finest singles ever, a mature but remarkably catchy slice of AM radio fluff that predicts the sound that ABBA would take to the top of the charts later in the decade.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:10:56
- Main artists: Nana Mouskouri
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Universal Music Division Mercury Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2001 Mercury Music Group This Compilation ℗ 2001 Mercury Music Group
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