Willie Nelson Love Songs CD

Willie Nelson achieved broad-based popularity in the late '70s and '80s by singing pop standards on a series of albums starting with 1978's Stardust. This discount-priced, ten-song compilation mixes romantic ballads largely drawn from those albums and includes well-known songs from a range of periods, dating back to the 1940s ("I Can't Begin to Tell You," "To Each His Own," "Some Enchanted Evening") and continuing up to the inclusion of those twin monuments to pompous insincerity, "Always on My Mind" and "Wind Beneath My Wings." As such, the material is more uneven than might have been hoped, but every song is given the same measured, half-spoken, oddly timed Nelson vocal performance. Any one of the full-length albums in which these recordings originated -- Without a Song, What a Wonderful World, etc. -- is recommended over this sampler. But at a modest price, it is at least a mood-setter. ~ William Ruhlmann

Imported 16 track collection of Willie's more tender songs includes many hits and only 2 of which are on the US edition. Tracks, 'To All The Girls I've Loved Before' (with Julio Iglesias), 'Blue Skies', 'Let It Be Me', 'Tenderly', 'Mona Lisa', 'To Each His Own', 'Harbor Lights', 'Over The Rainbow', 'Seven Spanish Angels' (with Ray Charles), 'Georgia On My Mind', 'Bridge Over Troubled Water', 'Without A Song', 'Unchained Melody', 'That Lucky Old Sun', 'In My Mother's Eyes' & 'Always On My Mind'. Sony Records release.

This import collection features 16 of Willie Nelson's most sentimental songs, including his famous renditions of "Always On My Mind," "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" (with Julio Iglesias), and "Bridge Over Troubled Water."

Producers: Chip Moman, Booker T. Jones, Fred Foster.