2008-07-14 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful
This is the best CD I have purchased in a long time. Ronald Isley's voice and the emotion he puts into his singing, brought me to tears for about the first 10 times I played it. The feelings just build up for the first few songs. By the time it... (Read full review at Amazon)
2008-04-13 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful
Ron Isley has the ache the yearning the whipspered voice that should cling to the understated melodies of Burt Bacharach. It doesn't. Dionne Warwick, Carpenters, heck even Elvis Costello has deeper interpretations of Bacharach/David songs. The... (Read full review at Amazon)
2007-05-13 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful
You have to wonder when Mr Bacharach will finally focus on his horses and give up the music. Thankfully for the fans he just seems to have this never ending streak of creativity. BB has colaborated with so many over the years and this effort with... (Read full review at Amazon)
2007-04-10 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful
The first time I heard this CD was on a fund raiser program for public television and I wanted it. The melding of Bacharach's lyrics and music with Ron Isley's beautiful voice captivates me and I play the CD over and over. Beautiful music moves... (Read full review at Amazon)
2006-11-17 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful
Anything Burt Bacharach gets involved with is worth checking out, and so when this surprising combination of talent appeared on ITunes, I couldn't hit the 'buy' button fast enough! Burt seems to have taken to offbeat collaborations in the last... (Read full review at Amazon)
Ronald Isley had a 2003 that most artists would envy. The Isley Brothers' Body Kiss went to No. 1 in its first week in the Billboard charts in the spring. Still riding that triumph, the veteran singer teamed with master writer-arranger Burt Bacharach for this set of sumptuous ballads. Such event records - often made to cash in at holiday time or to lift a sagging artist profile - aren't always musically successful, but Here I Am is undeniable. Recording live vocals with a full orchestra in the manner of Bacharach's '60s sessions with Dionne Warwick and others, Isley brings a quietude to this selection of Bacharach-Hal David classics and a couple of new collaborations between the composer and Tonio K. "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" gets the most radical reinterpretation; no longer jaunty, it's transformed into something bluer but ultimately full of hope. Here I Am, one of the more surprising albums of the year, is a true keeper. --Rickey Wright
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