Digitally Remastered Twofer. Includes Deluxe Booklet with Rare Career Highlight Photo's Picked by Anne.
CD Reviews
Highly prized indeed
04/29/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This double-album collection is packed with hits but the really declicious aspect is the "Highly-Prized Possession" album, one of the finest achievements of Anne Murray's long and distinguished career. A little bit rock, a little bit pop, a little bit country and with a whole lot of soul, Anne lays down a truly memorable series of songs with deep meanings, all interpreted to perfection. I have friends who are still playing the LP and weeping to it. This is an album you will play again and again and treasure forever."
Essential Anne Murray...anything else is slush
Todd Berryman | Indianpolis, IN USA | 01/06/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"LOVE SONG is probably one of the best "pop" albums that's ever been released. The fact that it's not available unless you purchase an import version is a criminal oversight on the part of Capitol Records, because it's an essential key to the songcraft of the era...proving that Anne Murray was mixing genres with aplomb long before today's "eclectic" rockers made reputations on just such a skill. From the production and arrangement skills of Brian Ahern (later to refine these skills with Emmylou Harris) to the song choices (a cover of the Beatles' "You Won't See Me" that might actually cut the original, wresting away a couple more Loggins and Messina songs) to Anne's own inimitable delivery (proving that a Canadian can take on Doris Troy's "Just One Look" and sing credible r&b), this is the one you HAVE to have. In the posse of female song stylists of the country/rock/pop era, this album asserts that Anne Murray was not only one of the first, she was unquestionably the best."
Another superb collection of two of Annes early records
Todd Berryman | 06/25/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"for us Anne Fans who grew up in the beginning of the sixties this records are a real goldmine because my old records arent in good shape anymore im grateful to EMI who give us a chance to buy them again. i like all the material on this cd but please dont sell Nova Scotia must be one of her best songs i love that song... take care Stefan"
Two lovely albums from 1974
Peter Durward Harris | Leicester England | 02/23/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Anne recorded great music throughout the seventies, but her mid-seventies material is sometimes overlooked - this is most unfair, as the two albums that make up this CD illustrate. Brian Ahern was Anne's producer, as he had been for some years, and these two albums contain a typical mix of covers and originals.The first album, A love song, contains exquisite covers of Just one look (an American hit for Doris Troy but a British hit for the Hollies) and You won't see me (John Lennon once told Anne that this was the best Beatles cover he'd ever heard - I wouldn't go that far, but it is rather nice).The album includes Another pot o' tea, written by a Canadian songwriter about his Irish grandmother, and Send a little love my way, which won a Golden Globe nomination after it was used in the movie Oklahoma crude. Kenny Loggins co-wrote two of the songs - the title track and Watching the river run. Listening to those songs, it's not difficult to figure out why he became such a great songwriter.The second album, Highly prized possession, contains two great covers, including Dream lover (Bobby Darin) and Day tripper (Beatles) but is otherwise filled with lovely original songs. The best of these is the final track, Please don't sell Nova Scotia. It is a song about the perils of development - if you sell the land to build houses or factories, you can't get it back. Although set in Anne's home province, the message of the song is universal.So, these are two excellent but often overlooked albums from Canada's finest singer."
U.S. Release Needed
Peter Durward Harris | 02/27/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Here's hoping the folks at Capitol/EMI will consider releasing these great two-fer domestically. LOVE SONG, first released in 1974, was Anne Murray's best album. Even the ever-cynical Robert Christgau praised her cover of "You Won't See Me" as one of the best re-recordings of a Beatles song. And, her understated, elegant rendition of Chip Taylor's "Song of a Rotten Gambler" is a classic. 1975's HIGHLY PRIZED POSSESSION isn't as strong as its predessor. This time around, the Beatles' cover, "Day Tripper," is presented as a bit of ill-conceived, blue-eyed soul. Almost all of the songs feature the tempo and themes of '70s lite rock. Two glorious exceptions: "Please Don't Sell Nova Scotia," an ode to anti-development and environmentalism; and "Uproar," a bit of country funk -- unfortunately, it represents the last town Murray got down and dirty on her recordings. Excellent production by Brian Ahern throughout. These two recordings were they last time Ahern and Murray worked together; he resurfaced a couple years later as the producer and later husband of Emmylou Harris. She, in turn, covered two of the songs on LOVE SONG -- the aforementioned "Gambler" and "Another Pot of Tea." (Here's a hint...you may be able to find this CD cheaper at Canadian-based CD stores...)"
Track Listings (20) - Disc #1