Getting All Bublé
Michael Bublé
With Love
(Reprise)
The Hallmark of pop singers packages eight songs to be sold exclusively at Hallmark stores.
Bublé will never be blamed for forcing his own thoughts on someone, and he has been designed to sell new recordings of old songs for people too busy to try anything new. He’s good at it, and by recording only two new songs for this set, he’s not so bad on the business side of things, either. Only a disrespectful version of the Otis Redding staple “Try A Little Tenderness” veers from the most popular version, and all Bublé and his conspirators did was let the air out of it. Otherwise his inoffensive croon glosses “Fever,” Stevie Wonder’s “You And I,” “I’ve Got A Crush On You,” “Can’t Help Falling In Love With You,” “My Funny Valentine,” “These Foolish Things,” and “That’s All” in a way that doesn’t matter.
— Steve Forstneger
