Search - Dion :: Born to Be With You/Streetheart

STUNNING DION MASTERPIECE~BRAVO!!!

Bradly Briggs | TOLUCA LAKE, CALIFORNIA | 07/12/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Soulful and magnificant is Dion throughout this classic "Born To Be With You" album giving the most incredible performances of his brilliant career to date!! Loose and soulful on the great opener "Born To Be With You", Dion has always been one of my all time favorite male vocalists and this wonderous song should have been a huge hit but like Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High" radio refused to play it for some strange reason. Anyone who loves great music will go nuts over this masterwork and "Make The Woman Love Me" is a soul-deep and riveting performance that is stunning and completely stirring with Dion at his peak on another classic. Fighting off addictions successfully in "Your Own Back Yard" is revealing while Dion's uniquely original take on the standard "(He's Got)The Whole In His Hands" is hypnotic and mesmerizing. Beautifully flowing like a ride on a carousel is the engaging "Only You Know" and a great New York song which is an appropiate theme coming from Dion is the gorgeous and engrossing "New York City Song". A masterful "In And Out Of The Shadows" is another soulful Dion athem that is really a knock-out and has me using the repeat mode numerous times as is the infectious and ususual "Good Lovin' Man" which is a rhythmic and rocking cooker! Fascinating is the 50's sounding jam "Baby Let's Stick Together" that has a great beat and a hand clapping chorus with great background vocals that are all brilliantly mixed together to great effect making this a grand finale for a true masterpiece!! "Born To Be With You" is such a brilliant and epic work that it is a hard one to follow but "Streetheart" works nicely as it is a pop-soul classic set versus an epic masterpiece. A fine version of Smokey Robinson's "The Way You Do The Things You Do" opens this great set with Dion in loose and top form! Another strong performance makes "Runaway Man" engrossing while "Queen Of '59" is classic Dion in a great setting. Longing and yearning make "If I Can Just Get Through The Night" another stellar performance and it is amazing that radio didn't pick up on this one as it really sounds like a hit. "More To You (Than Meets The Eye)" is a gorgeous and romantic pop song and things quickly heat up and go into high gear with the rhythm rocker "You Showed Me What Love Is" where Dion lets loose and gives another amazing performance that should have been a hit!!! Haunting on the soulful "Hey My Love", Dion is powerful on this great ballad and this too could have been a hit with any airplay at all and brought Dion to the charts in the 70's which should have happened with the quality of this incredible two-album double delight set! Another engaging Dion original "Oh The Night" is a romantic cooker and the musicans throughout this great work are totally inspired including greats such as Ernie Watts, Nino Tempo on a mean sax, Phil Everly on harmony and background vocals!! "I'll Give You All I've Got" is truly great and Dion does exactly that giving his all throughtout this great mix of songs and it is amazing that this was not a blockbuster album during the boring Disco period of the 70's-what a pathetic trade-off and a complete rip-off to Dion and the American public who really lost out missing this masterpiece!!! Wow!!! A hot rocking "Lover Boy Supreme" is another wonderous Dion original and clearly a master at his peak in every way and with airplay this could have gone to #1 in a flash! Closing is classic Dion giving his best on the title "Streetheart" which is another total winner in a totally winning collection. His loose and soulful scatting in this great song is unlike anything I have ever heard from this great singer who is one of my all time favorites!! Bravo Dion!!! You are awesome... DON'T MISS THIS ONE!!!!!!!!"

Aspire to greatness

mpbcp | thornwood, ny United States | 07/25/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"your life will not be complete until you hear dion sing "make the woman love me". it is a great lyric,interpreted by one of the great singers, with that great big "wall of sound" behind him.
the title song is also one that grows on the listener, and i essentially enjoyed all the other phil spector production numbers with the painful exception of "he's got the whole world in his hands" - that should have been left off the album.
The 2 other songs on the album, "you're own backyard" and "New york City Song" are both first rate, and more of what you'd expect from dion. they sound like they would fit better on the "sanctuary" album than on this album because they are clean and strightforward recordings (no wall of sound).
the streetheart album is memorable for "if i could just get thru the night" . the rest of the album is nothing more than bonus tracks compared to the born to be with you collection of songs, which clearly aspire to greatness, and actually achieve that goal several times"