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    All the Way: A Decade of Song

    11/16/1999 | Sony 

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    All Music Guide Review

    There aren't a lot of greatest-hits albums with seven new songs, which is exactly what All the Way: A Decade of Song is. There are just nine hits on this hits collection, and of those, only a handful -- "If You Asked Me To," "Beauty and the Beast," "The Power of Love," "Because You Loved Me," "It's All Coming Back to Me Now," and "My Heart Will Go On" -- were huge hits in the U.S. Her first American hit, "Where Does My Heart Beat Now," isn't here, nor is her duet with Barbra Streisand, "Tell Him." Naturally, this means it's not a definitive collection, but rather an unsatisfying album that feels suspiciously like a piece of product. The best of the hits, like the Meat Loaf-ian epic "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" and "My Heart Will Go On," are certainly among the best adult contemporary songs of the decade, and the new stuff would pale in comparison, even if it was very good -- which, by and large, it is not. Two numbers, the danceable "That's the Way it Is" and the pretty ballad "If Walls Could Talk," work, but the cover of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" falls flat and "All the Way," complete with old vocals from Sinatra, is a disaster. The remaining three aren't bad, but they're not particularly memorable, especially compared to the hits. And that's the problem with All the Way -- if it had been a straight hits collection, with "That's the Way it Is" and "If Walls Could Talk" added to the end, it would have been fine, but padding it with nearly a full album worth of new material hurts it. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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    Credits

    • Rob Mathes
    • Arranger, Orchestral Arrangements, Conductor
    • Guy Roche
    • Synthesizer, Engineer, Producer, Arranger
    • Dan Shea
    • Drums, Sound Design, Rhythm Programming, Drum Programming, Programming, Keyboards
    • Walter Afanasieff
    • Organ, Bass, Synthesizer, Guitar (Acoustic), Synclavier Guitar, A&R, Orchestral Arrangements, Synthesizer Bass, Drum Programming, Synclavier, Producer, Programming, Organ (Hammond), Keyboards, Drums, Arranger
    • William Ross
    • Arranger, Conductor, Orchestral Arrangements, String Arrangements
    • Kyle Bess
    • Assistant Engineer, Mixing, Mixing Assistant
    • Jack Hersca
    • Assistant Engineer, Assistant Vocal Engineer
    • Max Martin
    • Keyboards, Programming, Mixing, Engineer, Producer, Vocals (Background)
    • Chris Brooke
    • Assistant Engineer, Mixing, Assistant Vocal Engineer, Mixing Assistant
    • Ron Last
    • Assistant Engineer, Mixing, Assistant Vocal Engineer
    • Jon Newman
    • Packaging Manager, Package Supervision
    • David Foster
    • Arranger, Vocals (Background), Producer, Vocal Arrangement, Keyboards
    • Roy Bittan
    • Piano, Arranger, Piano Arrangement, Piano (Grand), Producer
    • Jeff Bova
    • Arranger, Keyboard Programming, Track Arrangement, Programming, Keyboards
    • Jimmy Bralower
    • Percussion, Arranger, Track Arrangement, Drum Programming, Drums
    • Bob Cadway
    • Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Track Engineer, Mixing, Tracking
    • Carl Carwell
    • Arranger, Vocals (Background), Vocal Arrangement
    • Felipe Elgueta
    • Programming, Engineer, Synthesizer Programming, Producer
    • Simon Franglen
    • Synthesizer, Synthesizer Programming, Synclavier Programming, Synclavier, Engineer, Producer, Arranger, Keyboards
    • Loris Holland
    • Keyboards, Vocals (Background), Choir Conductor, Organ (Hammond)
    • Ren Klyce
    • Programming, Synclavier Programming, Sampling, Synclavier
    • Kofi
    • Vocals (Background)

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