Ed Ames - Impossible Dream

Ed Ames's Last RCA LP record

By Tim  Sep 7, 2003

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM RCA ANL1-2891 was a collection of twelve songs from various Ed Ames albums. It was released in 1978 about five years after his last new album which featured songs from the movie musical LOST HORIZON. He seems to have stopped reco...rding after that. The songs on IMPOSSIBLE DREAM are the title song, Climb Ev'ry Mountain, What the World Needs Now, The Seasons of Love, What A Wonderful World, Who Will Answer(top 20 hit), I Believe, I Wanna Be Free, Blowin' In The Wind, Peaceful Waters, Bridge Over Troubled Water,and Anywhere I Wander. The last song is from the musical Hans Christian Andersen by Frank Loesser.It was not on any previous Ed Ames RCA LP but was one of several songs he recorded with the British Ken Thorne orchestra for Reader's Digest Records. Bridge Over Troubled Water was on a 1972 LP whose title was just ED AMES which was not in print long. What A Wonderful World was first sung by Louis Armstrong. Jim Fogelsong produced the original recording sessions. The album is a good sampling of Ed's song catalog and styles of singing, including songs from Broadway musicals , contemporary hits by others and inspirational songs. The album cover pictures Ed portraying Don Quixote from MAN OF LA MANCHA, a role he often played in revivals of the show during the 1970s. If you like Ed Ames and find this album it is worth buying especially if you can't find all his earlier albums which are mostly out of print now. My favorite song in this album is Ed's version of Peaceful Waters, an early Gordon Lightfoot song and perhaps the only version by a singer other than Lightfoot. Read more Less