I flew all the way to Las Vegas from Tennessee just to see Air Supply, which is alot for a 14 year old. I'm so glad they put "Miracles" on this one. I love that song. While some say that Russell's voice has gone down, I say give the guy a break. He's my hero, and I was lucky enough to meet him and Graham. Russell Hitchcock has one of the most humble, and kind human souls you'll ever meet.He honestly won't boast if you compliment him on his singing, instead he'll just say, and I quote "Oh, I'm no role model when it comes to being a singer",unquote. I'm a very romantic kind of guy. A "Love Songs" compilation from my favorite band is a blessing from God. BUY THIS NOW!!! God bless Russell Hitchcock!!!

I just wanted to bring up a point a previous reviewer made. They mentioned that the one new song "Miracles" should have been credited to Graham Russell and not Air Supply. Not sure why. The song is written by Graham and sung by Russell Hitchcock so it is a true Air Supply song through and through. It's a beautiful song that I had the privildge of hearing in concert and is worth the price of the CD alone. Air Supply made great music all through the 90's and are still doing so into the new millennium !

Made in USA in 2005, Serial# 82876-66934-2, Playing Time 63:06

Honestly, I could write pages about what's on this CD, which basically only covers the 1980 to 1985 era, plus a new 2004 recording credited to Air Supply (but should in fact be credited to Graham Russell).

If you're new to AIR SUPPLY, a very unexpensive way to get addicted; if you've got the albums from that era, I suggest you pass this up (play the song sample of track 14, Miracles, to make up your own mind...)

There are already countless "best of" releases from this band, and I would suggest the 2003 "Ultimate" domestic release instead of this one...

Then again, you can buy this CD for basically 1 new song!

This cd of Air Supply has a way of capturing the memories of when the songs were a hit the first time. Makes you feel like your in your 20's all over again!

...and had a dream 'bout Russell Hitchcock...kid you not. This just this week, and made me think it high time I got on the schtick and threw another 5-star review on this site, already. It's nice to see the Russell boys included in this Love Songs series with the likes of a Harry Belafonte, Frank Sinatra and Roy Orbison, to name a few.

As Air Supply retrospectives go, no other single-disc concisely captures their most-prominent recordings in a separate offering. Running-order is scrambled in order to keep the overexposed listener intrigued and satisfied. And what makes this disc worth the price of admission is inclusion of the newly-recorded track Miracles. The quality and presence of this song pays credence to the abundance of material released since the first half of the eighties, as it serves to enjoin these other essential 13 tracks with all that has come forth since.

Songwriter Graham Russell has taken an ever-increasing number of lead-vocals during the past say decade and a half, as father time and one mother of a year-after-year touring schedule has it's felt taken its toll on the once angelic voicings of Russell Hitchcock. Still, it's hard to imagine the song Miracles being sung with any greater sincerity, appeal and conviction than it is in this current-day setting. Nobody, but nobody, sings a song like Russell Hitchcock.

It's hoped that this continuum recording will entice both the new and casual listener to seek out other recordings from these intervening two decades, including and especially the first three Giant releases from the nineties. It's hoped as-well that the anticipated Essential Air Supply will include the lost 45 b-side Crazy Love, which now for as-well two decades has been shamelessly denied CD-format.

And so, anyway, the dream finds Russell Hitchcock trudging his way past innumerable obstacles and finally into the endzone, only to be blindsided and thrown out-of-bounds, a blow the force of-which finds him not again getting up from. It's felt that Air Supply and Russell Hitchcock will hang-it-up when the strain outweighs the gain, and it is from that point onward and backward that we will be left these performances to marvel at, and a voice that is to be cherished at whatever age it is heard and thereafter enjoyably encountered.