Donny & Marie Discography of CDs

Donny & Marie music CDs It's been 30-some years since Donny & Marie Osmond recorded an album of new material, so it's only appropriate that Donny & Marie's eponymous 2011 album sound a bit like it could have come out during the pre-MTV early `80s, its opening "A Beautiful Life" boasting a chorus that would feel right at home on a TV sitcom. Donny & Marie maintains that blissfully unaware time warp throughout its long running time. Some traces of the modern world creep in, whether it's a line about a guy who works at WalMart or a pummeling Gavin DeGraw hook, but producer Buddy Cannon is keenly aware that neither Donny & Marie nor their audience care much for anything contemporary that isn't modified by the word "adult," so that's what he helps them serve up: sunniness so sweet that every track sticks together. There's no separating the smiling ballads and the cheerful pop songs, partially because the whole album is so lengthy it quickly loses any sense of momentum. Then again, Donny & Marie isn't an album with a purpose other than offering hardcore fans a bunch of new recordings by the Osmond siblings -- and that's precisely what it delivers song after song, all of them new but feeling old, cozy, and comfortable. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Recording information: Blackbird Recording Studios, Nashville, TN; Digital Insight Recording Studios, Las Vegas, NV; Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, TN; Record Lab Recording Studio, Provo, UT; Westwood Sound Recording Studio, Nashville, TN. Photographer: Brandon Osmond. Personnel: Bobby Terry (acoustic guitar, gut-string guitar); Buddy Cannon (acoustic guitar, background ...

Donny & Marie CD discography Many Donny Osmond collections have appeared over the years, but none have combined his early and latter-day hits with the biggest Osmonds singles and his duets with Marie. This Definitive Collection, appearing in the wake of Donny's triumphant appearance on Dancing with the Stars, is the first to do exactly that, and while it has a couple of curious selections -- "Soldier of Love" is represented by the U.K. 12" mix, "Crazy Horses" is a solo version, not the Osmonds -- it is easily the best and most comprehensive Donny Osmond retrospective ever assembled. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Liner Note Author: Andrew Skurow. Recording information: 03/26/1974; 04/11/1974; 04/17/1972; 05/1971; 06/21/1971; 07/18/1973; 09/10/1971; 09/20/1971; 10/26/1970; 11/10/1971; 11/27/1972; 12/08/1971. Photographers: Michael Putland; Ray Burmiston; Barry Bregman.