| Making Every Moment Count |  | Artist: Peter Allen
Label: Bmg Japan
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1263359
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
EAN: 4988017664827
ASIN: B001EVNVQ4
Release Date: October 22, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Tonight You Made My Day | | • | Making Every Moment Count | | • | When I Get My Name in Lights | | • | Nobody Can Break Us Up | | • | I Could Marry the Rain | | • | See You in the Springtime | | • | So Much Depends on Love Today | | • | Why Not? | | • | I Couldn't Have Done It Without You | | • | Love Don't Need a Reason |
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Album Description
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. BMG. 2008.
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| Customer Reviews:
 We haven't heard the last of him July 4, 2008
I apologize the below reviewer... while Peter Allen's last big hurrah was his tour with Bernadette Peters this is an interesting album though it didn't sell well. The highlights are a reworked version of "When I Get My Name in Lights" from the ill-fated Legs Diamond (1988 Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Marc Shaiman featuring Harry Connick, Jr. who Peter partly "discovered" a few years back.
There is another Shaiman-produced number the Nelson Riddle style "I Could Marry the Rain". The album ends with the bitter "Love Don't Need a Reason" which Peter sang on World AIDS Day in 1987 (so it wasn't his last song as AMG recalls) co-written with Marsha Malamet and Michael Callen who both have recorded the song at one point. The title song is a synth-driven duet with Melissa Manchester which could have used much better orchestrations. Hugh Jackman even mentioned when he won his Tony for playing Peter Allen in the bio-musical THE BOY FROM OZ "Peter you certainly did". Thanks Peter, and thank you Hugh. This deserves a reissue with the lyrics and maybe some unreleased songs.
 ONE LAST "GREAT MOMENT"~THANK YOU, PETER!!! December 17, 2003
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is the last wonderful work from "The Boy From Oz" and what a joy it is!!! The opening "Tonight You Made My Day" is Peter at his exuberant best with his voice and piano playing as alluring as ever!! The great "Making Every Moment Count" is one of the more telling song's into Peter's philosophy on life! In the twenty short years of fame being known as a great writer and performer, he accomplished so much and his body of work for such a short period of time is totally awesome and unmatched!! Those of us who were lucky to see him in live performance know that Peter Allen is certainly one of the all time greats!!! NO male performer could raise the roof like this one did and lift the audience out of theirs seats so many times in one evening like Peter did!! This wonderful collection has so many special moments in it and I love his duet with Harry Conick Jr. "When I Get My Name In Lights"~you can tell that they had great fun doing this winning duet together!! My favorite is the passionate "So Much Depends On Love Today" as this is Peter at his soulful best belting out a great love song as only he could! The closing soul-stirring athem "Love Don't Need A Reason" is moving finale to a brilliant and legendary career that ended way to soon...we love and miss you Peter!!!!
A Moving, if uneven farewell October 1, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the last album Peter Allen recorded before his death in 1992. Although not his finest work (the album is hampered by generic and cliched lyrics) there are some moving cuts that take on an added poignancy in light of his passing. "I Could Marry the Rain" in particuliar, is a standout track that you play at 3.30 in morning, when there are no more tears left to cry...
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