- Audio CD (1 Mar 2010)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Limited Edition
- Label: Sony Music
- ASIN: B0034XRCVA
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 49,516 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. When I Get My Name In Lights (The Boy From Oz) |
| 2. One Night Only (Dreamgirls) |
| 3. Copacabana (Copacabana) |
| 4. I Won't Send Roses (Mack and Mabel) |
| 5. Memory (Cats) |
| 6. Don't Cry Out Loud (The Boy From Oz) |
| 7. My Eyes Adored You (Jersey Boys) |
| 8. The Kid Inside (Is There Life After High School?) |
| 9. So Close (Enchanted) Duet with Jodie Prenger |
| 10. Unusual Way (Nine) |
| 11. You'll Never Walk Alone (Carousel) |
| 12. The Winner Takes It All (Mamma Mia!) |
| 13. Oh What A Night (Jersey Boys) |
Product Description
CD Description
Best known for playing Captain Jack Harkness in the BBC series’ Torchwood and Doctor Who, he has also been a judge on the award-winning BBC1 entertainment shows How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?, Any Dream Will Do and I’d Do Anything. He has also hosted his own primetime Saturday night TV extravaganza, Tonight's The Night and graced London’s West End as Zaza in the Olivier Award-winning La Cage Aux Folles.
John Barrowman is perhaps his most personal album to date – the album he has always wanted to make. As with 2007's Another Side and 2008's Music Music Music, it is a masterful, evocative and uplifting journey into perhaps the man's first love, musical theatre, comprising his favourite moments from Cats, Mamma Mia, Jersey Boys and Mack and Mabel to name a few. The album is filled with instantly familiar classics - "Memory", "The Winner Takes It All", "My Eyes Adored You" - to the less immediately familiar, such as "So Close", a spine-tingling duet with Jodie Prenger. Also included is a beautiful version of "You’ll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel, a song which his mother sang to him as a child. Every track holds an emotional relevance for John.
This is the Gift Box edition.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another wonderful album from the talented John Barrowman,
By Priv8teer (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: John Barrowman (Gift Box) (Audio CD)
John Barrowman claims in interviews that "what you see is what you get". I don't believe him because inside the enthusiastic, passionate and endearingly giggly entertainer is an equally passionate but quieter, more reflective soul who doesn't always get a fair amount of airtime. However, in this very personal choice of songs, this aspect of his singing style is allowed to shine through especially in the slower numbers where his mellifluous voice seemingly effortlessly floats up to his higher register without strain. When I saw "You'll Never Walk" alone on the track listing I thought that this would be one to skip, but JB has reclaimed it from the football terraces and returned it to its roots as a song of love and hope. His wistful rendering of "Memory" is also refreshing. And of course he sings his heart and lungs out in the more up-tempo showstopping numbers but always with the lyrics clearly enunciated and the notes spot-on (well you would expect nothing less from such a consummate professional).
So buy this disc even if like me you don't recognise some of the tracks or think you won't like some of the tracks you do recognise - I guarantee you will be entertained. Just a minor production niggle - the informative sleeve notes in what must be in 4 point font in white on black are really difficult to read, but is slightly better than Music Music Music's pale salmon pink on white.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
wonderful album,
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This review is from: John Barrowman (Gift Box) (Audio CD)
just got my new "John Barrowman" album- it is great- wonderful songs- he is in great voice and is totally enjoying himself- so much emotion especially on "my eyes adored you" -"i wont send roses " and especially "you'll never walk alone"- these are the songs he is born to sing- awesome album !!!!!!!!!!!! a very happy fan
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
He's Done Better,
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This review is from: John Barrowman (Gift Box) (Audio CD)
I feel it's time someone started writing songs for John as most of his cd's are covers, a previous cd Another Side is much better than this new cd which I felt was disappointing.
Having recently bought John's dvd which is fantastic, I feel John ia a very visual entertainer (like Shirley Bassey)and sometimes hearing them on record is not the same, however to be fair to Mr. Barrowman I have only listened to the new cd once so perhaps it will grow on me.
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