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Donny Osmond has a tendency to take decades off from his recording career. He let most of the 1980s go by, presumably to clear the air after his teen idol days of the 1970s, before re-launching himself as a dance-pop singer with his self-titled Capitol album in 1989, then took off most of the '90s after the relative disappointment of its follow-up, Eyes Don't Lie. In the meantime, he gained a measure of legitimacy as a musical theater performer with a long-running portrayal of the title character in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. By the end of the decade, with the cancellation of the syndicated talk show he shared with his sister Marie, Osmond was again available to take another chance in the record stores. And so, here is This Is the Moment, the concept of which is to take show tunes of various vintages and given them contemporary pop arrangements. Of course, that's what pop artists used to do all the time with show music, until it fell out of favor at the end of the 1960s. Osmond and veteran producer Phil Ramone may not be trying to resurrect that tradition so much as they are trying to craft a new, more respectable image for Osmond as an adult contemporary performer. Hence, in one of the more radical restatements of a song, arranger/conductor Rob Mounsey provides a setting for the 50-year-old "Luck Be a Lady" from Guys & Dolls that sounds like nothing so much as a track from a 1970s Steely Dan album, complete with funky rhythms and a punchy horn chart. That sort of thing can backfire, of course (it makes you think about what Osmond was singing when "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" was a hit), but for the most part, Osmond and Ramone select show songs from recent years that already have a pop element to them, such as "Seasons of Love" from Rent and "This Is the Moment" from Jekyll & Hyde, so they are halfway to their goal already. Osmond clearly has learned a lot about singing from his stage work, but he still employs a pop singer's sense of feel over a stage singer's desire to convey meaning. Oddly, the staginess of his approach derives more from his pop background than his theater work; he never for a second sounds like he's really feeling anything. This artificiality is accentuated by the timbre of his light, flexible tenor. Decca Broadway seems to have chosen "Seasons of Love" as the album's emphasis track and is probably holding the duet with Vanessa Williams on Sweeney Todd's "Not While I'm Around" in reserve, but those aren't really the likeliest candidates to break this album. Osmond just doesn't nail the former, and the latter was a bad casting idea -- Osmond and Williams' voices are too similar. Rather, the real chances for hits are Whistle Down the Wind's "No Matter What" (which scored for Boyzone in the U.K., though they flopped with it in the U.S.) and Saturday Night Fever's "Immortality." These are highly melodic, lightly rhythmic ballads perfectly suited to Osmond's voice and approach. This Is the Moment is both the best Donny Osmond album ever made and conclusive evidence that the former teen idol, who was 43 when it was released, is never going to be more than a pleasant, modestly talented singer.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Phil Ramone, Producer - ROB MOUNSEY, Conductor, Arranger, Recording Arranger, Work Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - ELLIOT SCHEINER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jonathan Larson, ComposerLyricist - Donny Osmond, MainArtist
℗ 2000 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
F. Wildhorn, ComposerLyricist - Phil Ramone, Producer - Leslie Bricusse, ComposerLyricist - Frank Wildhorn, ComposerLyricist - ELLIOT SCHEINER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - PHILIPPE SAISSE, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Fred Bekky, ComposerLyricist - Donny Osmond, MainArtist
℗ 2000 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - ROB MOUNSEY, Conductor, Arranger, Engineer, Work Arranger, StudioPersonnel - ELLIOT SCHEINER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - FRANK LOESSER, ComposerLyricist - Eric Schilling, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Stasium, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Donny Osmond, MainArtist
℗ 2000 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer - ELLIOT SCHEINER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jamshied Sharifi, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Donny Osmond, MainArtist - Ben Elton, Author - Jamishied Sharifi, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2000 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - Doug Katsaros, Arranger, Work Arranger - ROB MOUNSEY, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - ELLIOT SCHEINER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Schilling, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Stasium, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynn Ahrens, Author - Stephen Flaherty, Composer - Donny Osmond, MainArtist
℗ 2000 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - ROB MOUNSEY, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - ELLIOT SCHEINER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Schilling, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Stasium, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Donny Osmond, MainArtist - Bill Whelan, ComposerLyricist - Jamishied Sharifi, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2000 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - ROB MOUNSEY, Conductor, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Stephen Sondheim, ComposerLyricist - ELLIOT SCHEINER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Schilling, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Stasium, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vanessa Williams, MainArtist - Donny Osmond, MainArtist
℗ 2000 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - ROB MOUNSEY, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - ELLIOT SCHEINER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Schilling, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Stasium, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynn Ahrens, Author - Stephen Flaherty, Composer - Donny Osmond, MainArtist - Jamishied Sharifi, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2000 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - ROB MOUNSEY, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Rehl, Arranger, Work Arranger - Andrew Lloyd Webber, ComposerLyricist - ELLIOT SCHEINER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jim Steinman, ComposerLyricist - Eric Schilling, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Stasium, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Donny Osmond, MainArtist
℗ 2000 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - ROB MOUNSEY, Conductor, Arranger, Engineer, Work Arranger, StudioPersonnel - Barry Gibb, ComposerLyricist - ELLIOT SCHEINER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Robin Gibb, ComposerLyricist - Maurice Gibb, ComposerLyricist - Eric Schilling, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Stasium, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Donny Osmond, MainArtist
℗ 2000 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - ROB MOUNSEY, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Elton John, Composer - ELLIOT SCHEINER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tim Rice, Author - Eric Schilling, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Stasium, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Robbie Kondor, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger - Donny Osmond, MainArtist
℗ 2000 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - Rosie O'Donnell, MainArtist - ROB MOUNSEY, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Randy Newman, ComposerLyricist - ELLIOT SCHEINER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - ROB MATHES, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger - Eric Schilling, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Stasium, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Donny Osmond, MainArtist
℗ 2000 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - Doug Katsaros, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger - ROB MOUNSEY, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - ELLIOT SCHEINER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Schilling, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Stasium, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Donny Osmond, MainArtist - George M. Cohan, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2000 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
DISC 2
Gary Barlow, Producer, Co-Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Eliot Kennedy, Producer, Mixer, Co-Arranger, Remixer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Tim Woodcock, Producer, Co-Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Jeff Mironov, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Anka, ComposerLyricist - ELLIOT SCHEINER, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ben Coombs, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PHILIPPE SAISSE, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Donny Osmond, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - Sidney Lippman, ComposerLyricist - Sylvia Dee, ComposerLyricist - Donny Osmond, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - Carole Joyner, ComposerLyricist - Donny Osmond, MainArtist - Rick Cartey, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - Paul Francis Webster, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Livingston, ComposerLyricist - Donny Osmond, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - Donny Osmond, MainArtist - Robert Marcucci, ComposerLyricist - Peter De Angelis, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Phil Ramone, Producer - Victor Young, Composer - Edward Heyman, Author - Donny Osmond, MainArtist
℗ 2001 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
Donny Osmond has a tendency to take decades off from his recording career. He let most of the 1980s go by, presumably to clear the air after his teen idol days of the 1970s, before re-launching himself as a dance-pop singer with his self-titled Capitol album in 1989, then took off most of the '90s after the relative disappointment of its follow-up, Eyes Don't Lie. In the meantime, he gained a measure of legitimacy as a musical theater performer with a long-running portrayal of the title character in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. By the end of the decade, with the cancellation of the syndicated talk show he shared with his sister Marie, Osmond was again available to take another chance in the record stores. And so, here is This Is the Moment, the concept of which is to take show tunes of various vintages and given them contemporary pop arrangements. Of course, that's what pop artists used to do all the time with show music, until it fell out of favor at the end of the 1960s. Osmond and veteran producer Phil Ramone may not be trying to resurrect that tradition so much as they are trying to craft a new, more respectable image for Osmond as an adult contemporary performer. Hence, in one of the more radical restatements of a song, arranger/conductor Rob Mounsey provides a setting for the 50-year-old "Luck Be a Lady" from Guys & Dolls that sounds like nothing so much as a track from a 1970s Steely Dan album, complete with funky rhythms and a punchy horn chart. That sort of thing can backfire, of course (it makes you think about what Osmond was singing when "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" was a hit), but for the most part, Osmond and Ramone select show songs from recent years that already have a pop element to them, such as "Seasons of Love" from Rent and "This Is the Moment" from Jekyll & Hyde, so they are halfway to their goal already. Osmond clearly has learned a lot about singing from his stage work, but he still employs a pop singer's sense of feel over a stage singer's desire to convey meaning. Oddly, the staginess of his approach derives more from his pop background than his theater work; he never for a second sounds like he's really feeling anything. This artificiality is accentuated by the timbre of his light, flexible tenor. Decca Broadway seems to have chosen "Seasons of Love" as the album's emphasis track and is probably holding the duet with Vanessa Williams on Sweeney Todd's "Not While I'm Around" in reserve, but those aren't really the likeliest candidates to break this album. Osmond just doesn't nail the former, and the latter was a bad casting idea -- Osmond and Williams' voices are too similar. Rather, the real chances for hits are Whistle Down the Wind's "No Matter What" (which scored for Boyzone in the U.K., though they flopped with it in the U.S.) and Saturday Night Fever's "Immortality." These are highly melodic, lightly rhythmic ballads perfectly suited to Osmond's voice and approach. This Is the Moment is both the best Donny Osmond album ever made and conclusive evidence that the former teen idol, who was 43 when it was released, is never going to be more than a pleasant, modestly talented singer.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:10:50
- Main artists: Donny Osmond
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.
- Genre: Klassiek
© 2001 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc. ℗ 2001 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
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