The Impossible Dream – JACK JONES****

The Impossible Dream/The Shadow Of Your Smile/I Will Wait For You/Then Was Then & Now Is Now/All Or Nothing At All/Feeling Good/Alfie/Strangers In The Night/What Now My Love/This Is All I Ask/My Best Girl/You Better Go Now

Easy listening vocalist Jack Jones achieved his highest US album placing with The Impossible Dream. With changing musical tastes his albums would be placed significantly lower during the remainder of the decade. (US:9)

"The cream of the cream of the American song under the elegant voice of one of the best singers ever."

"What an amazing achievement Impossible Dream remains for Jack Jones, and not just because it's his all-time best-selling album. Its songs come together as a single theme of a typical young man, focusing on what he has, what lies ahead, and where he stands in the big scheme of things."

"Jack Jones, with his smooth as silk voice, impeccable sense of timing and singularly beautiful renditions of many love songs, remains quite a force to be reckoned with. Aspiring artists would do well to study Jones's style and form."

"The track begins with The Impossible Dream. Jack's voice is in perfect form and his excellent diction enhances his performance. The musical arrangement relies on the harp and strings to bolster it; and this works very well. The Shadow Of Your Smile follows; Jack starts this ballad with just a piano to create a stunningly beautiful effect; and all through the arrangements keep Jack's vocals squarely in the spotlight."

"I recall purchasing this album on vinyl back in 1966. I played it and sang along with Jack over and over many, many times. Great tunes, fabulous voice and arrangements. No one gives a better performance of The Impossible Dream."

"If you like jazz you will really enjoy All Or Nothing At All, I Will Wait For You, This Is All I Ask, and You'd Better Go Now. With all due respect to Matt Monro, Tony Bennett and Sinatra, Jack's covers of their songs stand on their own merit. This is the best and most collectable of all the Kapp albums he recorded."

"Jones at his best, and as creative as ever, in the swinging uptempo tunes and surprisingly inspired in the slow ballads. A dream come true."