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Born to Be With You/Street Heart | 
| Artist: Dion
Label: Ace
Category: Music
List Price: £14.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 16729
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 029667179324
EAN: 0029667179324
ASIN: B000059RHW
Release Date: March 5, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Born To Be With You | | • | Make The Woman Love Me | | • | Your Own Back Yard | | • | He's Got The Whole World In His Hands | | • | Only You Know | | • | New York City Song | | • | In And Out Of The Shadows | | • | Good Lovin' Man | | • | Baby Let's Stick Together | | • | Way You Do The Things You Do | | • | Runaway Man | | • | Queen Of 1959 | | • | If I Can Just Get Through Tonight | | • | More To You (Than Meets The Eye) | | • | You Showed Me What Love Is | | • | Hey My Love | | • | Oh The Night | | • | I'll Give You All I've Got | | • | Lover Boy Supreme | | • | Street Heart |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Spector and a guest singer February 26, 2008
I read great things about 'Born To Be With You' and, in truth, this is Phil Spector's triumph rather than Dion's, ironic given the large as life promotion of the singer on the cover. Dion shows what a good voice he has, but it's the updated 'wall of sound' that catches the attention. I would comment too that in all of this, the songs themselves seem to have been forgotten. The title track is an over-reverential take on an old song. Dave Edmunds also recorded this at around the same time. He was going through his Spector imitation phase, and while his brand was inferior, he made a better version because he didn't forget the power of the song as it was intended to be performed.
'Make The Woman Love Me' is a much better recording, but the remaining songs are generally propped up by the quality of the production. 'The Whole World In His Hands,' a one-line song with a few 'yeah he does' ad-libs, is a waste of Dion's talent. As for 'Streetheart,' it's a highly-polished, well-executed album, and pretty bland. This disc will not change your life.
 THE MAGIC TOUCH August 8, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Spector is best known - and rightly so - for his collaborations with early sixties girl groups, as well as with acts like Ike and Tina Turner and the Righteous Brothers. Crystals songs 'Then he kissed me' and 'Da do ron ron', and the Ronettes' 'Be my baby' are all part of the great rock lineage which continued on through to the great Springsteen albums of the 70s. But this is as good as anything Spector did back then. I recall hearing the title track about five years ago and being overwhelmed by the sheer beauty and richness of it. It remains one of my all-time favourite songs and the rest of the album doesn't fall far short of the openers' greatness, while 'Queen of 59' is a belter too. There are many albums that are categorised as 'must have' or 'critically acclaimed' - this is one of them and it justifies the hype.
Long neglected gem January 10, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Beloved of Pete Townshend, Jason Pierce and Bobby Gillespie, Dion's brilliant 1975 collaboration with Phil Spector still astonishes today.
The majestic title track is a fitting opening to an album in which Dion's peerless vocals are matched to perfect effect with Spector's typically inventive orchestration. That said, none of the tracks suffer in comparison.
Interestingly, Dion seems to have had over the years - at best - an ambivalent relationship with the record. As a review I read years ago observed: "Imagine if you made the best record of your career, in collaboration with one of your heroes, and it was released only abroad...What if it was one of the greatest albums ever made, but you didn't even realise it?"
Probably my favourite album of all time - well worth giving it a try if you're up for hearing a long-forgotten part of rock history.
SUBLIME SPECTOR October 25, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Nothing to add to the other review really, simply showing solidarity! The title track 'Born to be with you' is amongst Spector's finest work, but is practically unknown beside the likes of The Ronettes, The Crystals and The Righteous Brothers. The rest of the album ain't too bad either, so give yourself a treat and purchase this now. Whilst you're at it, pick up a copy of 'Johnny, baby please come home' by Darlene Love, Spector's other forgotten masterpiece. Mad as a hatter he may be, but Phil is one of the few true giants of pop history.
 Beautiful and Strange March 9, 2001
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Forget "STREET HEART" and just wallow in the unbelievably soulful production of Phil Spector and "BORN TO BE WITH YOU". And, of course, Dion's voice. It really hits straight to your soul like prime Scott Walker or Dennis Wilson. This is a truly timeless record: the drums sound like depth charges, just like this was The Ronettes, but Dion and the production are otherworldly. Even the version of "He's Got The Whole World In His Hand" sounds like Godlike.
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