Songs from Ally McBeal

Performer: Original Soundtrack/Vonda Shepard
Artist: Michael Paulo; Vinnie Colaiuta; Paulinho Da Costa; Valerie Carter; Lili Haydn; Phil Perry
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Personnel includes: Vonda Shepard (vocals, piano, keyboards); Michael Landau (guitar); Michael Paulo (saxophone); Neil Stubenhaus (bass); Palinho Da Costa (percussion); Phil Perry (background vocals). Producers include: Robert Kraft, Vonda Shepard, James Newton Howard, Gardner Cole, Art Munson. Engineers include: Ed Thacker, Michael Mason, Ross Pallone. Personnel: Vonda Shepard (vocals, piano, keyboards); Val McCallum (guitar, mandolin, background vocals); Michael Landau (guitar); Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar); Lili Haydn, Michelle Richards, Peter Kent (violin); Robert L. Becker (viola); Martin Tillman, Larry Corbett (cello); Jeff Young (piano, Hammond B-3 organ, background vocals); Neal Larson (piano); Jebin Bruni (Chamberlain); Jim Hanson, John Pierce, Paul Bushnell (bass); Andy Kamman (drums, percussion); Vinnie Colaiuta, Rob Ladd, John Keane (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion); Brian McCleod (loops); Lynn Davis, Jean McLain, Sy Smith, Vatrena King, Renee Goldsberry, Valerie Carter (background vocals). Producers: Vonda Shepard, Mitchell Froom, Rick Wake. Engineers: John Paterno, Paul Dieter, Eddie DeLena. Vonda Shepard has a certain stylistic charm that comes through in her vocals. She can make a cover tune sound like her own, and her own tune like an undeniable hit. This collection of music from the ALLY MCBEAL TV show contains both, and is a delightful record. Vonda has the breakthrough album of her career here, after singing background for Jackson Browne and scoring a hit with Dan Hill on "Can't We Try." Some songs are done as pop, some country and some as ballads, all with Vonda's wonderful voice in full effect. She does an uptempo take on "Hooked On A Feeling," a soulful rendition of "Tell Him," and a warm piano ballad version of "I Only Want To Be With You." Vonda Shepard's third collection of music from the hit show ALLY McBEAL finds her once again mining the catalogs of boomer-friendly artists. Blessed with a warm vocal delivery and a confident piano style, Shepard leads her merry band of session musicians through soulful versions of classics by Carole King ("Home Again"), Tim Hardin ("Reason To Believe"), and Todd Rundgren ("Can We Still Be Friends"). The flaxen-haired vocalist also teams with former series regular Robert Downey Jr. on Bob Seger's "Chances Are" and with dance diva Anastacia on a sizzling cover of Gary Wright's "Love Is Alive." Downey's self-penned "Snakes" should have been left on the cutting floor, but the actor makes a respectable showing in a duet with Sting on the latter's "Every Breath You Take." Rounding out FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE are legends Al Green (his classic reworking of the Bee Gees hit "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart"), Tina Turner (the bouncy "When The Heartache Is Over"), and Barry White (You're The First, The Last, My Everything").

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