Passport (Nana Mouskouri album)

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Passport
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Compilation album by
Nana Mouskouri
Released1976
Label Philips
Producer

Passport is a compilation album by Greek singer Nana Mouskouri, released in 1976 by Philips Records. Containing 21 tracks, it is Mouskouri's highest-charting album in the United Kingdom, [1] where it reached number three in the UK Albums Chart [1] and was certified Gold by the BPI. [2] The album was initially released on LP, cassette and 8-track cartridge formats before later being released on CD. [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

In a review of Passport for AllMusic, Stewart Mason wrote that despite it being "recorded over a span of over a decade with a variety of accompanists ranging from Mouskouri's original backing group, the Athenians, to the easy listening specialists the Mike Sammes Singers, the album sounds as if it could have been recorded during one lengthy session. Such is the strength of Mouskouri's jazzy, middle-of-the-road pop style that songs as varied as her biggest hit, "Never on Sunday" (here presented in its original Greek lyrics as "Ta Pedia Tou Pirea"), Paul Simon's "Bridge over Troubled Water," and the traditional "Amazing Grace" end up sounding pretty much the same." He described the album's "worth" as "[depending] entirely on the listener's tolerance for this kind of Eurovision Song Contest style of pop, but few people working in this style in the '60s and '70s were better than Nana Mouskouri. (Only the great Petula Clark comes immediately to mind.)" Mason went on to opine that Mouskouri is "a genuinely superb jazz-pop singer with a bewitching voice and an ear for material that rises above the occasionally gloppy easy listening arrangements she's often saddled with. Unfortunately, there's more than a few of those arrangements on Passport, but there's also a number of truly impressive songs." He singled out "The Loving Song" as "a surprisingly solid take" on the country music genre, and "Four and Twenty Hours" as being "one of Mouskouri's finest singles ever, a mature but remarkably catchy slice of AM radio fluff that predicts the sound that ABBA would take to the top of the charts later in the decade." [4]

Track listing

Side one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The White Rose of Athens"
2:37
2."I Have a Dream"
3:37
3."Day Is Done" Peter Yarrow 3:38
4."Never on Sunday"
  • Hatzidakis
  • Billy Towne
3:08
5."My Friend the Sea"
3:14
6."Plaisir d'amour"
3:21
7."The Loving Song"
2:36
8."Try to Remember"
3:12
9."Turn On the Sun"
2:50
10."Odos Oniron"Hatzidakis2:54
11."Milisse Mou"
2:50

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Enas Mythos"
  • Hatzidakis
  • Thrasyvoulos Stavrou
4:16
2."Bridge over Troubled Water" Paul Simon 4:15
3."And I Love You So" Don McLean 4:00
4."If You Love Me"
3:30
5."Seasons in the Sun"
4:00
6."The Last Rose of Summer"
3:21
7."Over and Over"
  • Petsilas
  • Michel Jourdan
  • David Fennell
  • Paul Chapman
3:00
8."Four and Twenty Hours"
3:37
9."Cu-Cu-Rru-Cu-Cu Paloma" Tomás Méndez 4:04
10."Amazing Grace" John Newton 3:10

Charts

Chart performance for Passport
Chart (1976)Peak
position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [5] 9
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [6] 5
UK Albums (OCC) [7] 3

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [8] Gold100,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. 1 2 "NANA MOUSKOURI". Official Charts. January 11, 1986. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Nana Mouskouri, Passport, Album - The BPI". BPI. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Nana Mouskouri - Passport". September 18, 1976. Retrieved September 18, 2025– via www.discogs.com.
  4. 1 2 "Passport - Nana Mouskouri | Album | AllMusic" . Retrieved September 18, 2025– via www.allmusic.com.
  5. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Nana Mouskouri – Passport" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 September 2025.
  6. ↑ "Spanishcharts.com – Nana Mouskouri – Passport". Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 September 2025.
  7. ↑ "Nana Mouskouri | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 18 September 2025.
  8. ↑ "British album certifications – Nana Mouskouri – Passport". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 18 September 2025.
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