 "Take a sentimental journey with Ringo......" | 2008-07-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: AV6IMP6KGQ8EB |
| Nice easy listening of old classics. Great for babyboomers who would like to hear songs their parents probably sang along to. I know mine did. Good job, Ringo! |
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 "REAL MELLO" | 2008-03-12 |
| - Reviewed By User: ANWZ9UJZ71CL7 |
| Your mom will love this one, Tats who Ringo did it for His Mother. A big band sound. |
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 "RINGO SINGS BETTER AT COUNTRY SONGS" | 2007-07-30 |
| - Reviewed By lastjedi |
I WONDER IF THAT REVIEWER ERIC ANDREWS KNOWS THAT THE BEATLES WERE STILL A GROUP WHEN RINGO RECORDED THIS ALBUM.HE SHOULD GET HIS FACTS STRAIGHT.BEATLES ALWAYS DABBED IN SOLO WORKS WHILE THEY WERE A BAND DATING BACK TO WHEN JOHN WROTE BOOKS AS A SIDELINE AND PAUL DID MUSIC SOUNDTRACKS LIKE THE FAMILY WAY,AND GEORGE FOR THE MOVIE WONDERWALL.RINGO SOUNDS BETTER SINGING COUNTRY SONGS.ITS HARD ENOUGH FOR MOST SINGERS TO SING THESE SONGS LET ALONE RINGO.HE DOES A GOOD JOB ON MOST OF THEM.BUT NOT ALL.AND I THINK HE COULD HAVE SUNG THE TITLE SONG SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY BETTER.HIS VOICE HAS KIND OF A TWANG TO IT WHEN HE SINGS IT.AND HE SHOULDNT HAVE SUNG IT LIKE THAT.HE DIDNT SING GOODNIGHT OFF THE WHITE ALBUM LIKE THAT.ALTHOUGH I THINK THE ANTHOLOGY EARLY TAKE OF GOODNIGHT IS WAY BETTER THAN THE WHITE ALBUM VERSION.I ALSO RECOMMEND RINGO'S VERSION OF DON'T PASS ME BY ON THE VH1 STORYTELLERS CD.THAT IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE WHITE ALBUM VERSION.I KNOW ANYONE WHO HAS HEARD IT WILL AGREE.I'D ALSO LIKE TO SAY IT WAS NICE THAT GEORGE AND JOHN AND PAUL WROTE AND COMPOSED SONGS FOR RINGO TO SING LIKE IT DON'T COME EASY AND IM THE GREATEST AND PHOTOGRAPH.
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 "Ringo is so much fun" | 2007-05-06 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1A2NX1XT6K5K1 |
I first bought Sentimental Journey in the early 70s on vinyl and was pleasantly surprised.
I was very pleased to see it released on CD!
If you are a fan of the Fab Four, this CD is a must. Although Ringo is obviously not a great singer, he is quite enjoyable and fun to listen to. You can tell he was having a great time recording this material and actually does quite well. A very good selection of material and out of all the tracks there were only maybe 2 that I did not particularly care for the arrangement(s), but I would still recommend purchasing this CD.
It is one of which I will never tire of listening (and enjoying). Tip of the hat to Ringo for forging on with the project when there was probably not a lot of encouragement. He did well. |
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| "beautiful" | 2006-03-16 |
| - Reviewed By User: A28QBWREU8IZQ3 |
This is a beautiful album that does just what it implies in the title. It takes you on a sentimental journey of beautiful music and memories of times gone by. Ringo is a talented drummer, but I also love to listen to him sing!
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| "Ringo- the trendsetter" | 2006-02-12 |
| - Reviewed By kjpc12 |
Long before it was fashionable for rock stars to record albums of American standards, Ringo released this in 1970. Linda Rondstadt, Boz Scaggs and Rod Stewart were all just getting their "rock" careers started and doing this type of work was many years away for all of them.
As for Ringo's standards, they are well chosen (many would turn up on later standards releases) and well produced by the likes of George Martin, Paul McCartney, and Quincy Jones. Ringo sings them well , maybe surprisingly well to some, and proves he can drum to something other than rock. He hasn't done another set of standards but it would be welcome. |
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| "NOSTALGIC RETRO CLASSIC" | 2005-03-21 |
| - Reviewed By ahopson |
| Ringo and Harry (Nilsson) did it long before Rod Stewart's "Great American Songbook" collection. A great song is just that! It lives and thrives as it passes from generation to generation. Call it tradition, call it historic, I call it pure fun even with the archaic electronics which adds to the album's "dated" quality. My mother, God bless her curly permed head, turned me on to some great music! (She would buy the records after I would whine about 'needing' to hear something/anything) This record was easy to get her to buy because of the song selections. It certainly remains a "Sentimental Journey". It was and is a moment in time...the Beatles were passing into the future, Ringo took a look back before moving forward. |
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 "He said he did it for his Mum but..." | 2003-11-07 |
| - Reviewed By jlizon |
| who in ... did he think was going to buy this? When doing these customers reviews the utmost thing on the reviews mind should be this: "Can I recommed this to somebody?" I couldn't do that with this disc. For his first solo outing, Ringo abandoned pop and went back to the old classics which he remembered hearing as a kid. Ringo got a different arranger for each standard to give each song a different flavor. Some songs were recorded with Ringo there, some without. Nothing works. For many reasons. Also, his unique drumming is nowhere present. So now, you're not listening to pop songs. You're not even listening to a pop drummer play pop songs. You're not even listening to a pop singer singing old standards. You're listening to a pop drummer sing old standards! While Ringo does have a certain charm that he does give to a few of these songs, its not nearly enough. His voice is more homey than gifted. "You Always Hurt the One You Love" and "Have I Told You Lately That I love You" are the best of the lot with Ringo having some moments in "Love is Many Spendoured Thing" and "I'm a Fool to Care." Ringo's voice is more comfortable and fits better in country music than the demands and stylings of the old standards. And that is why this record fails and why his next one "Beaucoups of Blues", would succeed. But overall I don't anticipate this ever being in any Ringo Starr's list of top ten best solo CD's. |
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| "Songs his mum taught him" | 2003-07-08 |
| - Reviewed By clayface9 |
| For Ringo Starr's first solo project, he chose to record an album of standards. It might have seemed like an odd choice at the time, but these are songs he grew up with, being favorites of his mum and dad. To give the project some variety, every song was arranged by a different person. Naturally, some of the arrangements are more interesting than others. "Bye Bye Blackbird", arranged by Maurice Gibb, has an almost vaudevillian feel to it. Many of the other songs have swing arrangements that really cook. As for Ringo himself, well, he's no Frank Sinatra. But they wisely chose songs that were within his rather limited range and he managed to acquit himself rather well. Fans of Ringo that have an appreciation for the old standards should get a kick out of this album. |
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| "Strange Start to a Solo Career." | 2000-04-16 |
| - Reviewed By strangebird |
| While the other three Beatles used their solo debuts as "declarations of independence", Ringo used his debut as a gift for his mom. For that, I tip my hat to him. This collection of tin pan alley standards may not inspire millions to rush out and snatch up every Sinatra album they can find but it does make for pleasant listening. This album deserves to be heard at least once. |
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