author: George Dvorak
I have been listening to Dick Summers work off and on since 1962. He has the best deliver voice I have ever come across. His "Bedtime Stories" Is some of his best work. He is to the spoken word (story telling) what the late Berry White was to love songs. His melodious voice is so soothing and comforting, you feel as if he were speaking directly to you alone. His stories are of a man very comfortablely and deeply in love with a woman. A woman that captivated him and instilled an inner peace the only true love can bring.
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Amber softness into the heart
author: Steven A. LaPierre -- Globerider Marketing
The Bedtime Stories CD is Dick Summer right now - - with a subtle distant blinking red radio tower light that flashes a glimpse of yesterday, but beams a brighter light into the future of a man who has brought so much of his talent into the hearts of the world. Like the amber softness of a gas street lamp on a cobble stone street in October, Dick Summer softly places words of color into our ears and into small openings in our hearts to fill an emotional color void. Talent beyond imagination - - and a vocal delivery that carries with it hints of our own lives relived on CD - - spoken by a man who somehow knows us, but we have never met - - until now.
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Spoken words about love that are personally relevant & artful.
author: Jan from Boston
Probably the most perilous topic in poetry is the subject of love--- so well-trodden and, at times, overspoken. But without ever becoming trite or sugary, Bedtime Stories is a memorable example of that delicate balance of literary & performance elements wherein story, sentiment, tone, imagery, voice, & music intersect artfully and honestly.
Each of Dick Summer's stories reaches for the commonality in the dreams, memories, feelings (the once-upon-a-times and should-have-beens) of all of us who love, no matter how
different the circumstances & details of our own stories---& nails it. It's this quality of making the theme & mood of each story relatable to the experiences of the audience that makes art a success. And Bedtime Stories succeeds. For me, the stories not only nail the essence of my moments, memories, & dreams of love, but celebrate them as worthy of being remembered. So many lines speak my heart--- lines I wish I'd written.
Rivering through a soundscape of lovely music, the stories are spoken in a reminiscent whisper by a voice built for this kind of storytelling, a voice long-associated with intimate musings, a voice that can make you feel that it's speaking just to you, yet is always ready to listen, in turn, to your replies.
Now I remember how good late-night radio used to make me feel. And now I'm free to feel that way again. Bedtime Stories is a very special, personal gift to be shared by lovers, by friends, & best of all, by lovers who are friends.
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