''Reflections of Rosemary'' is a 2005

album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

Debby Boone Deborah Anne Boone (born September 22, 1956) is an American singer, author, and actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life (song), You Light Up My Life", which spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboar ...

. It is Boone's first full-length disc recorded for

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. It was released sixteen years after her previous studio album, '' Home for Christmas'' (1989). The album's name, ''Reflections of Rosemary'', refers to American singer and actress

Rosemary Clooney Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers such as " Botch-a-Me", " Mambo Italiano", ...

, who was Boone's mother-in-law. It is a tribute album for Clooney who died in 2002, intended to be a musical portrait of her, or as Debby Boone put it: "I wanted to select songs that would give an insight into Rosemary from a family perspective". The album was produced by Allen Sviridoff, who had been Clooney's producer and manager for many years. Boone said she had chosen songs for the album that Clooney performed or "songs that maybe she recorded that people would never really associate with her". Boone toured extensively for the album including several nights at New York's famed cabaret, Feinstein's, where Clooney often performed.

Track listing

Critical reception

Christopher Loudon of

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thought that "unlike pedestrian salutes that concentrate on the object of adulation's biggest hits, Boone's homage takes a more personal tack, focusing on tunes that speak to specific familial memories". Another positive review of the album was that by Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. from

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, who said "''Reflections of Rosemary'' is well sung and tasteful, and should quickly find its place on mainstream jazz's heavy rotation play lists".

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