James Last - Music from Across the Way (CD)

All Music Guide

A reissue compilation tailor made for Last's introduction to the United States music market, this twelve song exercise is a Mitch Miller, Up With Peopleesque chorus sing along of a wide array of seventies songs, which somehow complement each other quite well when stripped of their original pretense and turned into folksy singalongs, falling in line with what Survivor would later astutely predict in 1984 that it is, in fact, the singer not the song which makes an album so enjoyable. Covers of Otis Redding, Beatles Lennon and Harrison, Neil Diamond and Otis Redding somehow all fit together in a very fashionable, feel good vibe. As a nostalgia piece, it's not as captivating as Langely Schools, but just as every bit as enjoyable.

- Rob Theakston, All Music Guide