2008-03-15 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful
Excellent collection. I challenge anyone to find a better version of Help me make it through the night, her song, end of story. (Read full review at Amazon)
2006-06-22 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful
Among all the country songs my mother played around the house when I was growing up, "Help Me Make It Through the Night" by Sammi Smith still plays often in the "jukebox in my mind", so to speak. When this song was popular in 1970, my dad was a... (Read full review at Amazon)
2005-02-18 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful
I read today that Sammi Smith had died. She was 61. I'll never forget the first time I heard "Help Me Make It Through the Night." It was on a jukebox at a bar-b-que restaurant in Fayetteville, Arkansas. What a marvelous sound! What a... (Read full review at Amazon)
So much gets made of countrypolitan's expansive, pop-influenced sound that it's easy to forget that it was also a medium of great singers. Few of them were as good as Sammi Smith. Blessed with a deep, husky voice that was nevertheless soft and tender, and breathing soulfulness, Smith had her best-known moment with 1970's "Help Me Make It Through the Night," a Top 10 crossover smash that she invested with a smoldering sense of emotional and physical need. On all of her best recordings, Smith's voice invites the listener into an emotional world so revealing and familiar that it often seems as if she's right there beside you, whispering into your ear. Such remarkable intimacies are only enhanced by their often breathtaking countrypolitan settings. --David Cantwell
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