UPC: 793018311427
Format: CD
Release Date: Oct 25, 2010
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Audio Mixer: Talley Sherwood.
Recording information: Tritone Studio, Los Angeles, CA.
Photographer: Tim Catlin.
Bigger-than-life Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard added "recording artist" to his résumé with the release of Shoot for the Stars, an 11-track collection of classic "sports jams" that finds the Olympic gold medalist/NBA All-Star backed by a gang of enthusiastic kids and some of the industry's finest session players. To be fair, Howard is no Shaquille O'Neal, as he actually has a decent set of pipes, and the performances, although occasionally goofy -- the basketball-themed reworkings of "U Can't Touch This (Howard Time)" and "Whoomp (Hoop) There It Is" are hardly subtle -- are immaculate, even if they're just aping the original recordings. Shoot for the Stars' title track, the lone original, is a sentimental midtempo ode to being a team player, good sportsmanship, and positive thinking, and in a world where highlight reels are inundated with horrific injuries, stupid dances, and locker-room controversy, it's hard not to start bobbing your head in time to its simple refrain of "Aim high with your heart." ~ James Christopher Monger
Recording information: Tritone Studio, Los Angeles, CA.
Photographer: Tim Catlin.
Bigger-than-life Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard added "recording artist" to his résumé with the release of Shoot for the Stars, an 11-track collection of classic "sports jams" that finds the Olympic gold medalist/NBA All-Star backed by a gang of enthusiastic kids and some of the industry's finest session players. To be fair, Howard is no Shaquille O'Neal, as he actually has a decent set of pipes, and the performances, although occasionally goofy -- the basketball-themed reworkings of "U Can't Touch This (Howard Time)" and "Whoomp (Hoop) There It Is" are hardly subtle -- are immaculate, even if they're just aping the original recordings. Shoot for the Stars' title track, the lone original, is a sentimental midtempo ode to being a team player, good sportsmanship, and positive thinking, and in a world where highlight reels are inundated with horrific injuries, stupid dances, and locker-room controversy, it's hard not to start bobbing your head in time to its simple refrain of "Aim high with your heart." ~ James Christopher Monger
Tracks:
1 - Let's Get It Started
2 - All Star
3 - ABC
4 - Will You Be There
5 - U Can't Touch This (Howard Time)
6 - Shout
7 - Day-O
8 - Get the Party Started
9 - Jammin'
10 - Whoomp (Hoop) There It Is
11 - Shoot for the Stars
2 - All Star
3 - ABC
4 - Will You Be There
5 - U Can't Touch This (Howard Time)
6 - Shout
7 - Day-O
8 - Get the Party Started
9 - Jammin'
10 - Whoomp (Hoop) There It Is
11 - Shoot for the Stars