This Could Be The Start Of Something/I Left My Heart In San Francisco/More/There I’ve Said It Again/This Is All I Ask/Dominique/Hello Dolly/Quiet Nights/Love Me With All Your Heart /Charade/What Kind Of Fool Am I/Sweet Little Mountain Bird
Arranger and conductor Ray Charles enjoyed his only US top twenty album success with Something Special For Young Lovers which includes the US No. 3 hit Love Me With All Of Your Heart. He is not to be confused with the better known R & B artist of the same name. The final comment below demonstrates the arrogance from youth of the time, since the music being praised is now (regrettably) almost as uncool amongst today's teenagers as this so called 'elevator' music. (US:11)
"Something Special For Young Lovers has wonderful musical numbers by The Ray Charles Singers. They practically defined easy listening in their heyday."
"From the first few tunes, covers of This Could Be The Start Of Something, I Left My Heart In San Francisco and More, we can't remember hearing an ensemble this bright, smooth, sincere upbeat and downright entertaining as Ray's 25 mixed voices. His singers sing their tails off on every song and believe in every lyric, and so do we."
"What does the music of Ray Charles mean to me? I grew up in the sixties. It brings back tailored suits for women with bouffant hair and plenty of makeup, spike heels, and an elegance that today's women (and men) lack. His musical arrangements are so clean, so clear. There is no equivalent today of the type of music made here."
"More is quite a special love song that became one of my very favourites the first time I ever heard it back in the 1970s. The Ray Charles Singers do this one up right. The musicians never steal the show from the chorus; wisely they let the chorus stay squarely in the spotlight - which is right where they belonged and always will belong."
"The album offers more of the same unimaginative, lightweight elevator/on-hold easy listening twaddle that Beatlemania and the rest of the rock & roll revolution were so desperately trying to break free from
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