Track Listing

1. One-Trick Pony - Kevin Breit, Tory Cassis, Holly Cole, Aaron Davis, Mark Kelso, George Koller
2. Romantically Helpless - Holly Cole, Aaron Davis, Mark Ferguson, David Gray, Mark Kelso, George Koller, David Piltch
3. I'll Be Here - Holly Cole, Aaron Davis, David Gray, Mark Kelso, David Piltch
4. Ghosts - Kevin Breit, Holly Cole, Aaron Davis
5. Come Fly With Me - Kevin Breit, Holly Cole, Aaron Davis, David Gray, Mark Kelso, George Koller
6. Dedicated to the One I Love - Holly Cole, Aaron Davis, David Gray, Mark Kelso, George Koller
7. That Old Black Magic - Kevin Breit, Holly Cole, Aaron Davis, Steve Ferrera, Mark Kelso
8. If I Start to Cry - Luc Boivin, Kevin Breit, Tory Cassis, Holly Cole, Aaron Davis, David Gray, Mark Kelso, George Koller
9. Loving You - Holly Cole, Aaron Davis, Mark Kelso, George Koller, Kim Ratcliffe
10. Make It Go Away - Luc Boivin, Kevin Breit, , Holly Cole, Aaron Davis, David Gray, Mark Kelso, George Koller, Gerry Leonard
11. Don't Fence Me In - Kevin Breit, Holly Cole, Aaron Davis, Mark Kelso, George Koller
12. Same Girl - Kevin Breit, Holly Cole, Aaron Davis,

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34595 in Music
• Released on: 2000-06-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
2000 album from the jazz/ pop chanteuse, a collection of 12 covers of choice jazz & pop songs. Includes her renditions of Paul Simon's 'One Trick Pony', Randy Newman's 'Ghosts', Sammy Chan & James Van Heusen's 'Come Fly With Me', Ralph Bass & Lowman Pauling's 'Dedicated To The One I Love' and Stephen Sondheim's 'Loving You'. The first single from the album, 'Make It Go Away', is a re-working of a track from her 1997 album 'Dark Dear Heart'. No domestic release has been scheduled and her last four releases were import only. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews

Romantically Hopeless
Now don't get me wrong - I love Holly Cole. Having caught her live act and locked much of her catalogue firmly in my CD collection, Holly is always able to take a dose of sultry vamp, add a few comic barbs, a smooth jazzy twist, and make an intoxicating music cocktail. Love, love, love Holly Cole.

BUT something just went wrong with this one.

Having stuck with the jazz format for years, Holly had begun to stray further a field in recent years with Temptation and the simply stellar pop gem, Dear Dark Heart. Having loved her new direction, I couldn't wait to see her take DDH a step further or at least pull it off again.

But with Romantically Hopeless, Holly apparently took over two years to make the record and it shows. Holly's strength has always been taking covers of overlooked songs and making them her own. For some reason here she seems to have lost her inspiration, going back to a lot of stale well-worn jazz standards like Come Fly With Me, Don't Fence Me In, and That Old Black Magic - and doesn't do much with them to make you forget other versions. She even does an unnecessary remake of Make It Go Away from her last album. A couple tracks like If I Start to Cry are standouts but do little to make this one a must buy. Hopefully next time out Holly can regroup and bring back more of the magic.

Romantically Helpful
I'm procrastinating. Wasting time before I have to do what I have to do so I'm checking out what other people are saying about one of my favourite albums ever. Certainly this is the best Holly Cole album. A perfect blend of her jazz standards and new found love of pop. Her voice has an incredible timbre, perfectly showcase in songs like "one trick pony". Her sense of humour is still strong like in the title number. She more then aptly covers a sondheim song and I could just go on. She sings every song like she wrote it herself. Why is this an import in the States? I don't understand how the music business works but a country denied Holly Cole has some serious issues to deal with!

Pales by comparison to "Dark Dear Heart"
I was excited when I first found that Holly Cole had (finally) released another album. Her prior "Dark Dear Heart" was excellently executed, so I was anxious to hear "the next phase" in her musical evolution. Unfortunately, she seems to have taken a step backwards. It always makes me wonder when an artist does a cover of a song that she has already recorded. In this case, she covers "Make It Go Away" which was the song from "Dark Dear Heart (DDH)" that garnered much attention for Ms. Cole. On the DDH version, the song is appropriately done as a "solo" as the song is the plaintiff plea from a woman to her lover, seeking relief from a personal burden. On "Romantically Helpless", she covers the same song, but with a swelling chorus of back-up singers (that come perilously close to drowning her out at times). The song loses the personal feel that its author surely intended. Ms. Cole also does two versions of "Romantically Helpless" (only one of which is listed on the jewel case insert). The first involves a heavy-handed synthesizer (also in danger of drowning out Ms. Cole's vocals) while the second version has a light, bouncy instrumental accompaniment, which seems to better fit the song's lyrics and feel. Overall, a good album, but if you don't already have "Dark Dear Heart", I'm confident that you will like it MORE!