I bought this CD just to get *My Baby and Me.*  It was well worth it, but the other songs are worth a listen, too.  *Amanda Sang* is partiucarly moving, beautifully performed in that well-tempered cabaret style that we hear too little nowadays.  *Pajamas* is, likewise, beautifully sung, and entertaining as it is sweet.  My fave is still *My Baby and Me*, tho, since any song that twisted and performed in such a sweet, gentle voice is as amusing as it is dirty.
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One of the most difficult things as singer has to do is make each song he (or she) sings different and fresh. If a song is over familar to the listen one might tend to tune out until the next track. Willis Moore succeeds with the more familar songs to me like So Far, If I Had a Brain, Amanda Sang, & It Goes Like It Goes. With the songs like Pajamas, Broken Bicycles, and Martha which I heard for the first time made me want to go back and listen to them again right. A very enjoyable listen.

Just one little quibble. Richard Rodgers wrote the music and lyrics to Something Good.

I especially liked it paired with On My Way To. Something Good perhaps is one of the least recorded of his songs and it is always a pleasure to hear this song in a fresh interpretation.
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Willis' goal for the album, he writes, was "to create an openhearthed musical experience using only a voice and a piano - like an intimate secret whispered softly in your ear." Succeed he does, with an album sweet and simple, and easy to listen to repeatedly.

A carefully chosen if eclectic collection of 12 songs celebrates childhood, romance, and the importance of accepting life's ups and downs. Consider the lilting "It Goes Like It Goes," and the bittersweet "Broken Bicycles" and "Martha," a pair of poignant tunes by Tom Waits. A refreshing rendition of "If I Only Had A Brain," the playful "Pajamas," Annie Dinerman's "Child In Me Again" and an appreciative "I Am Your Child" coalesce into a memory trip back to our youth. Moore wraps his smooth deep voice caressingly around Rodgers and Hammerstein's "So Far" and a medley of "Something Good" and "On My Way To You" by Marilyn and Alan Bergman and Michel Legrand.

Rick Jensen, who supplied the effectively simple arrangements and accompanies Moore on the album is represented by "Amanda Sang" and "My Baby and Me," a charmingly risque reminder of the joys of submission. In concert or on disc, you're certain to take to this talented teddy bear, whose vocalizing comes straight from the heart.




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i can't write anything technical and profound like those reviews above, but i think it's enough to say that Mr Moore's rendition of "if i only had a brain" is the only song i've come across to have the power of pulling me upwards from a depression, without driving me crazy with irritation when played back in repeat mode. in fact, it is so good that i haven't even tried listening to the other tracks on the CD, yet.
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