Ed Ames

Ed Ames – Time, Time (1967/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:16 minutes | 704 MB | Genre: Pop, Easy Listening
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

Big-voiced Ed Ames followed up his highly successful album My Cup Runneth Over with Time, Time, a similar set of traditional pop and show tunes beautifully arranged and impeccably performed. The title track sounds like an attempt to create another “My Cup Runneth Over” the two songs even share, briefly, a string melody and the single gave Ames another adult contemporary chart-topper. Ames capably handles dramatic Broadway tunes like “Cabaret” and “Sunrise, Sunset” as well as the Beatles’ “Michelle,” in an arrangement that makes the song sound like an old pop chestnut. In fact, Ames’ evergreen approach makes everything sound as though it hails from no particular period in time; when he’s finished with a recent hit like “What the World Needs Now Is Love” it sounds as much like a pop standard as “Pretend,” an actual oldie. A cast of well-known arrangers and conductors including Anita Kerr and Marty Gold split the orchestral chores, but the album is seamless as if the work of one mind. As exemplary as the arrangements and Ames’ performances may be, the material could be better, and Time, Time is inferior to both My Cup Runneth Over and the album Ames would make next, When the Snow Is on the Roses.

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Ed Ames – The Windmills of Your Mind (1969/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:15 minutes | 650 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

The youngest of four brothers, he began to sing with Joe, Gene, and Vic in the late ’40s. The Ames Brothers hit the Top Ten three times between 1954 and 1957, and starred in their own series in 1955. After the group broke up in 1959, Ames traveled to New York to study acting; he appeared in a few stage productions and then accepted a role in the series Daniel Boone playing Mingo the Indian. He began recording again in 1964, eventually notching seven hits in the charts, including 1967’s Top Ten single “My Cup Runneth Over.” Twelve albums were eventually released from the mid-’60s to early ’70s, including The Best of Ed Ames (1969).

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Ed Ames – It’s A Man’s World (1966/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:31 minutes | 765 MB | Genre: Pop, Easy Listening, Oldies
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

The youngest of four brothers, he began to sing with Joe, Gene, and Vic in the late ’40s. The Ames Brothers hit the Top Ten three times between 1954 and 1957, and starred in their own series in 1955. After the group broke up in 1959, Ames traveled to New York to study acting; he appeared in a few stage productions and then accepted a role in the series Daniel Boone playing Mingo the Indian. He began recording again in 1964, eventually notching seven hits in the charts, including 1967’s Top Ten single “My Cup Runneth Over.” Twelve albums were eventually released from the mid-’60s to early ’70s. If you are an Ed Ames fan, you will enjoy this one. Was in great condition and plays very beautifully. Original recordings this album 1968 year.

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Ed Ames – Ed Ames Sings Apologize (1968/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 29:56 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Pop, Easy Listening, Oldies
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

The youngest of four brothers, he began to sing with Joe, Gene, and Vic in the late ’40s. The Ames Brothers hit the Top Ten three times between 1954 and 1957, and starred in their own series in 1955. After the group broke up in 1959, Ames traveled to New York to study acting; he appeared in a few stage productions and then accepted a role in the series Daniel Boone playing Mingo the Indian. He began recording again in 1964, eventually notching seven hits in the charts, including 1967’s Top Ten single “My Cup Runneth Over.” Twelve albums were eventually released from the mid-’60s to early ’70s. If you are an Ed Ames fan, you will enjoy this one. Was in great condition and plays very beautifully. Original recordings this album 1968 year.

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Ed Ames – A Time for Living, A Time for Hope (1969/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:17 minutes | 727 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

Ed Ames is an American popular singer and actor. He is known for playing Mingo in the television series Daniel Boone, and for his pop hits of the 1960s including “My Cup Runneth Over”, “Who Will Answer?” and “When the Snow is on the Roses”. He was also part of the popular 1950s singing group with his siblings, The Ames Brothers. Album “A Time For Living, A Time For Hope”, RCA Victor 4128 original released 1969 year.

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Ed Ames – Remembers Jim Reeves (1972/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 29:49 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Victor

Ed Ames’ flirtations with country music with and without the Ames Brothers make his 1972 tribute to Jim Reeves a little less surprising than it might seem at a glance. Reeves was the archetypal pop-sounding country artist, and Chet Atkins says that Reeves was a great admirer of Ames’ voice, so the project makes a kind of sense after all. No one would mistake Ames, with his prim enunciation, for a country singer, but producer Joe Reisman wisely approached the album from a country-pop rather than easy listening direction. The subdued pedal steel and sparse accompaniment prevent the end product from seeming schmaltzy or corny, both of which are ever-present dangers when non-country artists cut country records. The slightly modernized reading of “Distant Drums” and Ames’ weary recitation on “The Blizzard” are two highlights on this thoroughly respectable tribute. ~ Greg Adams
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Ed Ames – It’s A Man’s World (1966/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:31 minutes | 765 MB | Genre: Pop/Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Front Cover | © RCA/Legacy

Edmund Dantes Urick, more widely knows as Ed Ames is an American popular singer and actor. Eddie Ames, having come from the barbershop-style popular 1950s singing group called The Ames Brothers, offered pop standards, continental pop, show tunes, and adult contemporary music on his solo albums, but his hits were mostly in a contemporary vein.

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