Vonda Shepard

Ally McBeal: For Once in My Life Featuring Vonda Shepard

For All Of My Life, Vonda Rules!!!

Review Score:

(10/10)
In this latest CD of the incredible Ally McBeal music series, the music itself is tooken to a differnet direction. Instead of a CD with just the wonderful Vonda Shepard singing all of the tracks, we have a few guest artist contributing. First, Robert Downey Jr., who is quite a musical talent, duets with Sting on "Every Breath You Take", a Police classic. Then, we have him singing with Vonda on "Chances Are", a Bob Seger song. Both of these songs including "Snakes", which Downey wrote himself, make this CD shine more than it already had. Second, we have the ultimate soul diva Tina Turner with her great song, "When The Heartache Is over". Then, of course, we have the great Barry White singing "You're The First, The Last, My Everything". Since I'm a hardcore Ally fan, I can't help but picture the scenes in Ally McBeal when John Cage (played by Peter MacNichol) struts his stuff to the Barry's 70's classic when I hear that song. Now, back to Vonda. Her contributions are exquisite. One would have to be extremely brave to cover a song by Mr. Bob Dylan (Don't Think Twice, It's All Right) and extremely gifted and talented to actually pull it off and,in a way, rival the original. Plus her reditions of the classics "Reason to Believe" and "Alone Again" along with her own material like "You and Me" make it perfectly clear why Vonda Shepard managed to touch many people's hearts and souls. Let's face it, Vonda RULES!!!!

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