Ringo Starr - Sentimental Journey (1970) {1995, Reissue}
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Traditional Pop, Jazz, Pop Rock | EMI #0777 7 98615 2 1 / CDPCS 7101
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 208 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 89 Mb
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Traditional Pop, Jazz, Pop Rock | EMI #0777 7 98615 2 1 / CDPCS 7101
Cut as the Beatles were disintegrating and released shortly before the group's final album, Let It Be, Ringo Starr's debut solo album was a collection of pre-rock standards dating from the 1920s to the '50s, sung over orchestral tracks arranged by everyone from fellow Beatle Paul McCartney and Bee Gee Maurice Gibb to jazz veterans Quincy Jones and Oliver Nelson. Starr brought a good-natured, nearly humorous tone to his vocals, perhaps because he wasn't trying to compete with the classic pop stylists most identified with these songs, but only to express his nostalgic affection for the material. Coming more than a decade before the fad for standards albums by rock-era pop stars like Linda Ronstadt, the album was taken not as a career move, but as a highly eccentric and expensive novelty of a kind only Beatles could afford to indulge. In retrospect, it remains harmlessly charming, if unexceptional.