Your personal "Best of Hayley" tracklist.

[Cherany]

So, I have a million Hayley CDs floating around in the car, all burned in iTunes. Sometimes, I add songs I haven't heard in a while; other times I fill a CD up with songs I think will appeal to people I expect to be riding around with. But it seems my favorites are scattered, so I decided to create my own personal "Best of Hayley" CD, or more accurately, I suppose, a "Favorite Hayley Songs" CD.

I thought I'd choose about 15-18 songs, since that's what usually fits onto an 80 minute CD. But this is Hayley we're talking about, so try as I might, I just couldn't narrow it down to so few! What I ended up creating is a 2 CD set with my favorites from each of her releases, except her latest (I don't have it yet ).

I spent a good deal of time arranging the songs so they flowed. Sometimes, this meant similar instruments taking you from one song to another; other times, it meant a certain style of singing entertaining you for a bit. Check it out:

Disc 1
Pokarekare Ana
The Water is Wide
Across the Universe of Time
Wuthering Heights
I'm Kissing You
I Believe
Time Goes Around
Never Saw Blue
You Are Water
What You Never Know (Won't Hurt You)
Let Me Lie
Flood
Bridal Ballad
Wiegenlied
My Heart Belongs to You
Summer Rain
She Moves Through the Fair
Jekyll
Bachianas Brasileiras

Disc 2
Never Say Goodbye
Who Painted the Moon Black
Both Sides Now
Bright Eyes
I Dreamed a Dream
Hanamizuki
Sonny
Morning Has Broken
Scarborough Fair
Tsubasa Wo Kudasai
Santa Lucia
Lascia Ch'io Pianga
O Mio Babbino Caro
Through These Eyes
Beat of Your Heart
Namida Sou Sou
Summer Fly
I Am a Thousand Winds
Melancholy Interlude
Abide with Me
Listen to the Wind

Though it pained me, cut from the list due to space limitations were My Heart & I, River of Dreams, & Vivo Per Lei. Though the last is one of my absolute favorites, the quality is not all that, since it's not an official recording.

I'd be delighted to hear which tracks are your favorites!

[grant]

Hi Cherany

I'm not surprised that you haven't had any takers for this thread yet. Choosing favourite Hayley songs is very difficult when they're all favourites at one time or another. Anyway, here's my list - not necessarily in order.

Now is the Hour
I Am a Thousand Winds
Majesty
Tsubasa Wo Kudasi
I Believe
Sonny
Melancholy Interlude
Abide With Me
Hine e Hine
I Dreamed a Dream
Oh Holy Night
The Water Is Wide
Quanta Qualia
Let Me Lie
One Fine Day
Prayer
Never Saw Blue
Who Painted the Moon Black
Mary Did You Know
Con te Partiro
God Defend New Zealand

Best wishes
Grant

[Nordly]

Gosh, I've never been able to do this!

Dark Waltz
River of Dreams
Un Giorno Per Noi
Amigos Para Siempre
Today Won't Come Again
The Heart Worships
May it Be
She Moved Through the Fair
Benedictus
I Dreamed a Dream
Now is the Hour
Beat of Your Heart
Summer Fly
Con te Partiro
Wuthering Heights
Across the Universe of Time
Who Painted the Moon Black
Lascia Ch'io Pianga
Tsubasa Wo Kudasi
A Thousand Winds
Yearbook Photo
One Fine Day
Sonny
Vivo Per Lei

That's not all my favourites... just what I can think of
Any Hayley song anyone made I would happily call my favourite!

~NL

[martindn]

Well, I promised you a listing, but this one is different, it has a rather more recent bias, it started off as a "Best of 2008". I but this together on a CD to listen to myself in the car, and I love it (although not necessarily my all time favourites). A lot of the music is soundtracks ripped from videos of live performances I found in various places - including some of Dave's fine work.

Majesty
Today Won't Come Again
Dulaman
Songbird
Pokarekare Ana
Amazing Grace
Hine e Hine
Mummers Dance
O Holy Night
Shenandoah
Down to the River
All I Ask of You
On My Heart
Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
Un Giorno per Noi
Barcarolle
Across the Universe of Time
Whistle Down the Wind
Amigos Para Siempre
Now is the Hour

There are a lot of duets in there. not always with whom you think!

Martin

[roger]

Hi Cherany,

Is there a prize for whoever gets it right?

Not surprisingly, I have many favourites but, if I am really limited to one album, this would be my personal selection (more or less in chronological order of the albums from which they come):

Love Changes Everything
Do You Hear What I Hear
Pokarekare Ana
Hine e Hine
Who Painted the Moon Black
Wuthering Heights
May It Be
Mummers' Dance
You Are Water
Abide With Me
Bist Du Bei Mir
God Defend New Zealand
Summer Fly
Whispering Hope
Now Is The Hour
Shiro Iro Ha Koibito No Iro (Colours of Our Love)

And for a bonus track, I would have a medley of all the others!

Roger

[larryhauck]

Hi Martin,

When the Celtic Woman Group was touring the U S in 2007 and Hayley and Meav were alternating months I was fortunate enough to see Hayley step in and sing Dulaman in Meav's absence. I was surprised that one of the Irish girls didn't do it; but I was thrilled to hear Hayley sing it. She was excellent and performed the piece as though she had done it for years.
Hayley's talent has no bounds.

Larry

[martindn]

Hi Larry,

The video I used came from the Salt Lake City CW concert. Unfortunately the sound quality is not as good as I would like, but Hearing Hayley sing that song is worth including. I always loved Meav's version too!

Martin

[nicola]

My Hayley album:

1. To the Sun That Lights the Day
2. Pokarekare Ana (MGTY version)
3. Prayer
4. Never Saw Blue
5. Both Sides Now
6. May It Be
7. The Last Rose of Summer
8. Listen to the Wind
9. Jekyll
10. Bridal Ballad
11. I'm Kissing You
12. Flood
13. Summer Rain
14. Dark Waltz
15. Benedictus
16. Across the Universe of Time
17. Beat of Your Heart
18. Let Me Lie

[Jillian]

This would be my ultimate Hayley album. Interestingly, I noticed after I completed it that there are no classical tracks.

1. Mummer's Dance
2. Summerfly
3. Santa Lucia
4. The Water is Wide
5. Shenandoah
6. Sonny
7. Mists of Islay
8. Let Me Lie
9. Last Rose of Summer
10. Time to Say Goodbye (with Jonathan Ansell)
11. When the Stars Go Blue (with Lee Mead)
12. Across the Universe of Time
13. Dark Waltz
14. Wuthering Heights