UK Release Me/Quiet Nights/Yours Until Tomorrow/There’s A Kind Of Hush/This Is My Song/Misty Blue/Take My Heart/How Near Is Love/Walk Through This World/If I Were You/Talking Love/My World/Ten Guitars US Release Me/Quiet Nights/Yours Until Tomorrow/There’s A Kind Of Hush/Ten Guitars/This Is My Song/There Goes My Everything/Take My Heart/Il Mondo/Talking Of Love/Walk Through The World With Me/How Near Is Love
Release Me was the debut album from Britain's best late sixties MOR vocalist Engelbert Humperdinck. The title track topped the UK singles chart and peaked at No. 4 in the States. Contrary to the final comment below you don’t have to be a bored middle class housewife to appreciate the brilliance of Engelbert’s vocal talents. Have you forgiven Engelbert yet for keeping The Beatles off the top spot? (US:7 UK:6)
"If you want to hear singing done to perfection with both power and smoothness this is the album. It is becoming one of my favourites and the more I listen to it the better it gets. Engelbert is without a doubt one of the finest vocalists to ever sing and this LP will prove it. His range and vocal quality is almost perfection."
"This LP is my all-time favourite. His voice is incredible. He sings every song with ease. And the music arrangement is superb."
"The music is superb. His voice has such range and volume and his love songs simply transport you to another place."
"Engelbert is absolutely the best crooner of all time. His voice was mellow and both masculine and broad in range. He captivated audiences with his voice and needed no frills. This album can be listened to over and over again."
"Engelbert began his career in spectacular style with Release Me, which stayed at No. 1 in the UK for six weeks, breaking the long run of Beatles chart toppers."
"For bored middle-class housewives of the 1960s, Engelbert became the glamorous embodiment of 'tall, dark & handsome'. His songs perfectly complemented the image, a gentleman at heart - lusty without being too dangerous. Viewed within this context, the music on this album is very good, but has no relevance beyond that context, because as 'product' to be 'consumed', it has no pretensions to being art."
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