| 词条 | A Tramp Shining | ||||||
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| name = A Tramp Shining | type = studio | artist = Richard Harris | cover = A Tramp Shining.jpg | alt = | released = May 1968 | recorded = December 1967 – January 1968 | venue = | studio = | genre = Orchestral pop | length = 31:53 | label = Dunhill | producer = Jimmy Webb | prev_title = Camelot Soundtrack | prev_year = 1967 | next_title = The Yard Went On Forever | next_year = 1968 }}A Tramp Shining is the debut album of Richard Harris, released in 1968 by Dunhill Records. The album was written, arranged, and produced by singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb. Although Harris sang several numbers on the soundtrack album to the film musical Camelot the previous year, A Tramp Shining was Harris' first solo album. "MacArthur Park" was one of the biggest singles of that year, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. The album as a whole was also highly successful, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Album of the Year" in 1969.[1] Reception{{Album reviews|rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}} [1] }} In his review in Allmusic, Bruce Eder gave the album four out of five stars, calling A Tramp Shining a "great record, even 35 years later, encompassing pop, rock, elements of classical music, and even pop-soul in a body of brilliant, bittersweet romantic songs by Webb, all presented in a consistently affecting and powerful vocal performance by Harris."[1] Eder praised Harris' performance for its "sheer bravado", writing of his rendition of "Didn't We": {{quote|Harris treaded onto Frank Sinatra territory here, and he did it with a voice not remotely as good or well trained as his, yet he pulled it off by sheer bravado and his ability as an actor, coupled with his vocal talents—his performance was manly and vulnerable enough to make women swoon, but powerful and manly enough to allow their husbands and boyfriends to feel okay listening to a man's man like Harris singing on such matters.[1]}}Eder was equally impressed with Jimmy Webb's production and arrangements, which he called "some of the lushest ever heard on a pop album of the period."[1] Eder concluded: {{quote|Strangely enough, "MacArthur Park"—the massive hit off the album—isn't all that representative of the rest of the record, which relies much more on strings than brass and horns, and has a somewhat lower-key feel but also a great deal more subtlety. One can also hear the influence of Webb's then-recent work with the Fifth Dimension in the presence of the muted female chorus on "In the Final Hours" and, much more so, on "If You Must Leave My Life" (perhaps the best song on the album, and the most complex, with heavy rhythm guitar, a great beat, and lush orchestrations), which almost sounds like a lost Fifth Dimension cut.[1]}}The album was ahead of its time in that it listed on the cover many of the session musicians who played on it. Track listingAll songs were written and arranged by Jimmy Webb.
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References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|last=Eder |first=Bruce |title=A Tramp Shining |work=Allmusic |date= |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/a-tramp-shining-mw0000094499 |accessdate=November 13, 2012}} {{-}}{{Richard Harris}}{{Jimmy Webb}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Tramp Shining, A}}2. ^{{cite web|title=A Tramp Shining |work=Album Liner Notes |url=http://albumlinernotes.com/A_Tramp_Shining.html |accessdate=September 24, 2013}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=A Tramp Shining |work=Discogs |url=http://www.discogs.com/Richard-Harris-A-Tramp-Shining/release/1809860 |accessdate=September 24, 2013}} 6 : Richard Harris albums|1968 debut albums|Dunhill Records albums|Albums produced by Jimmy Webb|Albums arranged by Jimmy Webb|Orchestral pop albums |
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