The Late Late Show - Memoir



SIDE ONE
  1. If She Should Come To Me
  2. When I Fall In Love
  3. Maria
  4. Hello Young Lovers
  5. September Song
  6. Time After Time
SIDE TWO
  1. This Is All I Ask
  2. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
  3. Days Of Wine And Roses
  4. The Shadow Of Your Smile
  5. Autumn Leaves
  6. The Party's Over

previously released by Capitol/E.M.I
issued to C.D

Honesty and integrity. Not always the kind of basic ingredients one might look for in the overall make-up of a Great Popular Singer which automatically springs to mind to the listening of other vital commodities like, for instance, lyric-interpretation, musicianship, superior diction, impressive breath control, et al...
Yet as you listen through both sides of this uniformly splendid album - no doubt with increasing pleasure - it is obvious, surely, even to the casual listener that, along with his all round capabilities, the very essence of Matt Monro's art is suffused with the twin qualities of honesty and integrity. You should need little or no reminding that Matt was never less than a truly honest interpreter of the popular song. One who never needed to engage in smart-ass affectations, or tawdry gimmicks, in order to project his own warm and easily communicative musical message. Integrity should have been his middle name. He never found it necessary to sell his artistic soul; and he seemed incapable of giving a performance which might in any way be classified as being even remotely tasteless, unmusical, or second-rate. Honesty. Integrity. In his music, of course, but also, as this writer recalls with abiding pleasure, the basic ingredients in the overall make-up of Matt Monro himself... (Stan Britt - Music Week)

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