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Dear Sally, Less Would Be More!

Bob M. | Woodstock, NY | 07/07/2001

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Let me start by saying right out that I love Sally Mayes. I've seen everything she's done, including her club act and her most recent appearance at New York's Town Hall doing highlights from 1943 Broadway season. This is a great, great talent, with an outsized, gorgeous voice that can sing just about anything, but something has happened along the way. Everything she does with that remarkable voice is now overdone, oversung, overstylized. (This was true of her last live appearances, where she killed "To Keep My Love Alive" bu oversinging and overacting a song that can be sung straight or deadpan and carried by the lyric.) There's so much going on in an album of interesting and electic material here, it becomes downright unlistenable. I've tried and tried, but nothing can make me like this CD, it's chalk on a blackboard. You want to hear Mayes at her absolute best, get her wondrful Comden & Green album. Everything works, and it's loaded with unforgettable performances.Skip this one."

Impressive

Hoc Stercus | Hudson, NY USA | 06/02/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Sally Mayes is a treasure. She has an exceptional voice and that special ability to convey not only the words and notes of a song, but also its meaning. To be honest, not every song in this set turns me on, but there is a sufficiency of good material to make me happy I got this particular CD, which leaves me with the hope that Ms. Mayes will be putting out more recordings in the months ahead."

More Sally is Merrier

R. Cooner | Sacramento, CA USA | 07/19/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I look forward to ALL of Sally's recordings because she inhabits each song she sings with a throbbing passion and a generosity of spirit that is sorely lacking in many artists. The songs she includes in "Boys and Girls Like You and Me" give Sally an opportunity to sing in an amazingly varied number of styles--and she makes splendid sounds in all of them. Listeners, such as I, who have followed Sally's career from the beginning will be thrilled to hear how Sally continues to grow and to surprise us as a recording artist. An added bonus on this CD are the wonderfully engaging arrangements by Sally's new collaborator, Dick Gallagher. Sally, I admire and adore you!"