My Love: Essential Collection

Performer: Celine Dion
Artist: Peabo Bryson; R. Kelly
Engineer: Chris Fogel; Chris Brooke; Osie Bowe; Greg Thompson; Tyson Leeper; Montez Roberts; Francois-Eric Lalonde; John Stalh; Glen Marchese; Mark Agostino; Larry Schalit; Kyle Bess; Mario Lucy; Bill Leonard; Eric Baron; John Amatiello; Ethan Schofer; Dana Jon Chappelle; David Reitzas; Emanuel Kiriakou; Felipe Elgueta; Frank Wolf; Fred Kelly; Guy Roche; Humberto Gatica; Jeff Chestek; Kevin Mills; Manny LaCarrubba; Mark Gray; Matthew "Boomer" LaMonica; Noel Hazen; Pat Thrall; Paul Boutin; Peter Doell; Simon Hurrell; Tom Bender; Tony Gonzalez; Van Coppock; Greg Pinto; Casey McMackin
Producer: Christopher Neil; Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds; Swiss American Federation; Emanuel Kiriakou; Guy Roche; James Horner; Jim Steinman; John Shanks; Kristian Lundin; Aldo Nova; Max Martin; Peer Astrom; R. Kelly; Ric Wake; Richie Jones; Roy Bittan; Steven Rinkoff; David Foster; Walter Afanasieff; Vito Luprano
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Personnel: Peer Astrom (various instruments, guitars, background vocals); Michael Thompson (guitar, guitars); John Shanks (guitar, bass instrument); Phil Palmer, Tim Pierce (guitar); Chieli Minucci, Esbj�rn �hrwall, Dann Huff, Eddie Martinez, Marc Dold, Andre Coutu, Sebastian Nylund (guitars); Emanuel Kiriakou (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, bass instrument, percussion, programming); Walter Afanasieff (acoustic guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, Synclavier, bass instrument, programming); Paul Peabody (fiddle); Stockholm Session Strings (strings); Tony Hinnigan (pennywhistle); Joel Peskin (electric oboe); Roy Bittan (grand piano); Doug Petty (organ); Loris Holland (Hammond b-3 organ, keyboards); Wix (keyboards, bass instrument); Dan Shea (keyboards, programming, drum programming); Max Martin (keyboards, programming, background vocals); Jeff Bova, Kristian Lundin (keyboards, programming); Steve Skinner (keyboards, drum programming); Lafayette Carthon, Jr. (keyboards, background vocals); Claude Lamey, Yves Frulla, David Foster, Ned Douglas (keyboards); Guy Roche (synthesizer); Ren Klyce, Simon Franglen (Synclavier, programming); Jean S�bastien Carr�, Marc Languis, Steve Buslowe, Tomas Lindberg (bass instrument); Jimmy Bralower (drums, percussion, drum programming); Andy Duncan (drums, percussion); Jeff Rothschild (drums, programming); John "4 Daddman" Robinson, Kenny Aronoff, Dominique Messier (drums); Bashiri Johnson , Paul Picard (percussion); Claude Gaudette, Swiss American Federation, Stephen George, Tony Black (programming); Eric Kupper (keyboard programming); Richie Jones (drum programming); Cheryl Wilson, Leah Haywood, Maxayn Lewis, Christopher Neil, Claytoven Richardson, Konesha Owens, Johnny Rutledge, Yvonne Gage, Robin Robinson , Robert Bowker, Jeffrey Morrow, Joan Walton, Rob Trow, Anthony Ransom, Alanna Capps, Bridgette Bryant-Fiddmont, Nana Hedin, Eric Troyer, Glen Burtnik, Jeanie Tracy, Kara DioGuardi, Kasim Sulton, Kofi , Larry Jacobs, Alex Brown, Andreas Carlsson, Phillip Ingram, Anna Nordell, Skyler Jett, Terry Bradford , Terry Wood, Todd Rundgren, Will Wheaton, Jean McClain, Rory Dodd, Leslie Ellis, Cathy Richardson (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Chris Lord-Alge; Denis Savage; Dana Jon Chappelle; Humberto Gatica; Kristian Lundin; Max Martin; Mick Guzauski; Peer Astrom; Tony Phillips; Jeff Rothschild; Brian Malouf. Audio Remixers: Rick Wake; Richie Jones. Arrangers: Carl Carwell; Ulf Janson; Guy Roche; Henrik Janson; Jeff Bova; Jim Steinman; Jimmy Bralower; R. Kelly; Rob Mathes; Robbie Buchanan; Roy Bittan; Sue Ann Carwell; Todd Rundgren; William Ross; Bill Rossi; David Foster; Walter Afanasieff. Twenty years into her career and nearly a decade since her first anthology, 1999's ALL THE WAY: A DECADE OF SONG, MY LOVE: ESSENTIAL COLLECTION is a fine overview of Celine Dion's hits. A well chosen, thoughtfully sequenced, and beautifully packaged compilation, the 17-track MY LOVE: ESSENTIAL COLLECTION includes all of Dion's biggest chart hits (including those which had appeared on her first anthology, such as the epic "My Heart Will Go On"), several other fan favorites, and a new single, "My Love." There is also a two-disc special edition, MY LOVE: ULTIMATE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION, which contains all 17 tracks from the single disc version and adds nine others, including duets with Barbra Streisand and Andrea Bocelli. Following the first Celine Dion collection, All the Way: A Decade of Song, by roughly a decade, My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection doubles almost everything about the initial collection: it covers two decades instead of one, has two discs, not one, and falls just short of having the double the songs. It's almost an overcompensation for how All the Way concentrated on newer recordings at the expense of hits, but then again Celine has had more hits in the ten years since All the Way, so it makes sense that My Love is a bigger, grander collection. The problem is, apart from her cover of Roy Orbison's "I Drove All Night," almost none of her new-millennium hits are as memorable as her singles from the '90s, so this double CD doesn't offer too much of an enticement for fans to replace 1999's single-disc set. But for those listeners who are looking for an overview of Celine Dion's two decades as an international superstar, My Love fits the bill well as it has all her big adult contemporary hits -- "Where Does My Heart Beat Now," "Beauty and the Beast," "If You Asked Me To," "Because You Loved Me," "It's All Coming Back to Me Now," and "My Heart Will Go On" -- all sequenced chronologically. [A single-disc edition entitled My Love: Essential Collection was also released.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Following the first Celine Dion collection, All the Way: A Decade of Song, by roughly a decade, My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection doubles almost everything about the initial collection: it covers two decades instead of one, has two discs, not one, and falls just short of having the double the songs. It's almost an overcompensation for how All the Way concentrated on newer recordings at the expense of hits, but then again Celine has had more hits in the ten years since All the Way, so it makes sense that My Love is a bigger, grander collection. The problem is, apart from her cover of Roy Orbison's "I Drove All Night," almost none of her new-millennium hits are as memorable as her singles from the '90s, so this double CD doesn't offer too much of an enticement for fans to replace 1999's single-disc set. But for those listeners who are looking for an overview of Celine Dion's two decades as an international superstar, My Love fits the bill well as it has all her big adult contemporary hits -- "Where Does My Heart Beat Now," "Beauty and the Beast," "If You Asked Me To," "Because You Loved Me," "It's All Coming Back to Me Now," and "My Heart Will Go On" -- all sequenced chronologically. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Celine Dion's ascent from stardom in her native Canada to the upper echelons of international pop divadom is one of the 1990s major success stories. Blessed with a formidable set of pipes and a preference for heart-in-the-throat ballads, the precociously talented Dion initially won over American listeners in 1991, 10 years after her French-language debut, with the title track from Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. From then on, Dion became a music-biz phenomenon, with platinum record sales, sold-out concerts, and across-the-board appeal rivaling her idol, Barbra Streisand.

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