{"id":36789,"date":"2025-07-31T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36789\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:58:14","slug":"20-years-time-michael-bubles-breakthrough-comes-home-on-new-deluxe-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36789\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years’ ‘Time’: Michael Bubl\u00e9’s Breakthrough Comes Home on New Deluxe Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Michael<\/a><\/p>\n

BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM<\/p>\n

Two decades after Canadian crooner Michael Bubl\u00e9 enjoyed his first major chart breakthrough, the album that did so – 2005’s\u00a0It’s Time – is being reissued for its anniversary.<\/p>\n

It’s Time will be reissued in a 2CD or 2LP set (the latter pressed on silver vinyl) that’ll feature a dozen studio and live bonus tracks. Having come out at a time of considerable limited editions – some only available at certain American retailers from Target to Starbucks – this edition of\u00a0It’s Time will offer all of those value-added bonus cuts in one place, alongside the radio version of unlikely hit single “Home” plus two unreleased outtakes: the original song “Just Like You” – which the then-29-year-old singer wrote when he was just 16 – and an interpretation of the Sammy Fain-Irving Kahal standard “I’ll Be Seeing You.” Both sets are available September 13.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The British Columbia crooner spent years honing his voice in just about any gig that would have him, from cruise ships to supper clubs, and parlayed his love of jazz, swing and traditional pop on several independent albums. When former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney heard him sing at a business party, he hired Bubl\u00e9 to perform at his daughter’s wedding, where he met Canadian soft-rock\/pop producer David Foster. Foster took a chance on the young man, and his self-titled major-label debut reached the Top 10 in Canada and England and earned the singer a Juno Award for New Artist of the Year.\u00a0It’s Time built on the formula of\u00a0Michael Bubl\u00e9, offering lively takes on songs by The Beatles (“Can’t Buy Me Love”) and Stevie Wonder (“You and I”), plus compositions by classic songwriters from Cole Porter (“I’ve Got You Under My Skin”) and the Gershwins (“A Foggy Day (in London Town)”) to Bricusse and Newley (“Feeling Good”), Pomus and Shuman (“Save the Last Dance for Me”) and Holland-Dozier-Holland (“How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You)”).<\/p>\n

But\u00a0It’s Time’s secret weapon was an original song Bubl\u00e9 co-wrote with longtime musical director Alan Chang and Foster’s daughter Amy: an aching ballad from the perspective of a touring musician who just wants to be with his loved ones called “Home.” The track was his first Top 40 in the U.K. and, after topping\u00a0Billboard’s adult contemporary chart in America, crossed over to the back end of the\u00a0magazine’s all-genre Hot 100. Its success buoyed\u00a0It’s Time higher than anything he’d ever released, topping the charts in Canada, going Top 10 around the world (including the U.S., the U.K. and Australia) and selling more than four million copies worldwide. The album also cleaned up at the Junos, winning Album of the Year and Pop Album of the Year (alongside a Single of the Year trophy for “Home” and Artist of the Year for the singer) and earning him his first of 12 career Grammy nominations (five of which turned into wins, all for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It’s Time allowed Bubl\u00e9 to put his own spin on the standards-with-a-few-originals formula; the swinging “Haven’t Met You Yet,” even became a U.S. Top 40 hit in 2009. And while 2011’s seasonal perennial bestseller\u00a0Christmas has ensured he’d probably never need to work again (and he almost didn’t, putting his career on hold briefly in 2016 while his then-three-year-old son was diagnosed with malignant cancer that was ultimately treated), he’s still singing and swinging at his best, last releasing the album\u00a0Higher in 2022. And in a sweet irony for a man helping keep the Great American Songbook alive, “Home” became a standard on its own, becoming a hit for Irish boy band Westlife as well as country singer Blake Shelton.<\/p>\n

The deluxe editions of\u00a0It’s Time are available September 13 and can be pre-ordered at the links below. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.<\/p>\n

It’s Time (20th Anniversary Edition) (Reprise, 2025)<\/p>\n

2CD: Amazon U.S.<\/a> \/ Amazon U.K.<\/a> \/ Amazon Canada<\/a>
2LP: Amazon U.S.<\/a> \/ Amazon U.K.<\/a> \/ Amazon Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

CD\/LP 1: Original album\u00a0(released as 143\/Reprise 49347, 2005)<\/p>\n

Feeling Good
\nA Foggy Day (in London Town)
\nYou Don’t Know Me
\nQuando, Quando, Quando (with Nelly Furtado)
\nHome
\nCan’t Buy Me Love
\nThe More I See You
\nSave the Last Dance for Me
\nTry a Little Tenderness
\nHow Sweet It Is
\nA Song for You (feat. Chris Botti)
\nI’ve Got You Under My Skin
\nYou and I<\/p>\n

CD\/LP 2: Bonus material\u00a0(* previously unreleased)<\/p>\n

Mack the Knife
\nDream a Little Dream of Me
\nJust Like You *
\nHome (Remix)
\nI’ll Be Seeing You *
\nNice ‘N Easy
\nSoftly As I Leave You
\nIt’s All in the Game
\nI’m Beginning to See the Light
\nFeeling Good (Live)
\nYou’ll Never Know (Live)
\nMy Funny Valentine (Live)<\/p>\n

Tracks 1-2 released on limited edition of original album – 143\/Reprise 18996, 2005
Track 4 released on “Home” U.K. CD single – Reprise W668CD1, 2005
Track 6 and 11-12 released on Come Fly with Me – 143\/Reprise 38610, 2004
Tracks 7-9 released on deluxe edition of original album – 143\/Reprise 49304, 2005
Track 10 released on\u00a0Caught in the Act – 143\/Reprise 49444, 2005<\/p>\n

Categories: News<\/a> Formats: CD<\/a>, Digital Download<\/a>, Digital Streaming<\/a>, Vinyl<\/a> Genre: Pop<\/a>, Popular Standards\/Vocal<\/a> Tags: Michael Bubl\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n

\"AvatarMike Duquette<\/p>\n

Mike Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he was a teenager. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, holding positions at Legacy Recordings and Rhino Records and contributing to Allmusic, Discogs, City Pages, Ultimate Classic Rock and Mondo Records, for whom he penned liner notes for his favorite piece of music: John Williams’ Oscar-winning score to ‘E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.’<\/p>\n

Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife, a cat named Ravioli, twin daughters and a large yet tasteful collection of music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM Two decades after Canadian crooner Michael Bubl\u00e9 enjoyed his first major chart breakthrough, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-36789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}