This has 16 tracks from the mid-'80s to the late '90s, but like other installments in
Sony
's
Love Songs
series, it's not synonymous with a greatest-hits compilation. Instead, it's just an assortment of various songs from the catalog of one of the most popular romantic vocalists of the late-20th century, though there are of course a whole lot more than 16 "love songs" in the
Iglesias
discography. These particular ones seem to have been selected with an eye toward the North American market, as all are in English, and the program's heavy on covers of era-spanning
pop
standards
:
"Mona Lisa,"
"Can't Help Falling in Love,"
"When I Fall in Love,"
"As Time Goes By,"
the
Willie Nelson
-penned
"Crazy"
(popularized by
Patsy Cline
),
Don McLean
"Vincent (Starry Starry Night),"
the Beatles
'
"And I Love Her,"
Morris Albert
"Feelings,"
Jacques Brel
and
Rod McKuen
"If You Go Away."
It does have some of his big American hits in
"To All the Girls I've Loved Before"
(a duet with
) and
"Moonlight Love,"
yet it's missing his smash duet with
Diana Ross
,
"All of You."
Overall, it's representative of the glossily produced, sentimental
adult contemporary
for which the singer's most known to much of the English-speaking audience. ~ Richie Unterberger