17 Most Requested Songs
is a midline-priced collection that spotlights many of
Jerry Vale
's best-known and most popular performances for
Columbia Records
, including
"Have You Looked into Your Heart,"
"Mama,"
"Old Cape Cod,"
"You Don't Know Me,"
"Tears Keep on Falling,"
"O Solo Mio,"
"The Impossible Dream,"
and
"Love Is a Many Splendored Thing."
Although it's far from a perfect retrospective of his career, it's still a nice sampler of familiar items, and it may satisfy the needs of some casual fans who only want the hits. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine