Live In New York 1979

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Cat No: RLGM13491PMI

Release Date: 01 July 2022

Label: Real Gone Music

Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units: 2

Barcode: 848064013495

Genres: Pop

Description
Start spreading the news: Liza Minnelli's long-lost live album recorded in
the very heart of New York, New York is getting the deluxe vinyl and even
more deluxe CD treatment from Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records!
When the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony-winning superstar (and future Grammy
Legend) took the stage at the legendary Carnegie Hall on September 4, 1979,
the concert was already a hotly-anticipated event. It would be the first of
eleven consecutive shows through September 14–the longest run in the Hall's
history. Not only that, but every show in the five-level, 2,804-seat venue was
sold out. (This record stood until 1987, when an artist played three straight
weeks of sold-out shows there. That artist? Liza Minnelli.) Liza had the
foresight to record three nights of concerts; two years later, in 1981, she
began selling the limited release at her live dates. The Live at Carnegie Hall
double album preserved Liza's electrifying, roof-raising evening from start to
finish, including definitive versions of familiar showstoppers such as John
Kander and Fred Ebb's "Cabaret," "But the World Goes 'Round," and "Theme
From 'New York, New York'" as well as fresh versions of contemporary pop
and classic Broadway standards from luminaries including George and Ira
Gershwin, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim, Barry Manilow, and Melissa
Manchester. But, deprived of proper retail distribution, the album never
reached a wide audience…until now!
Liza Minnelli's Live in New York 1979 (newly titled to avoid confusion with Liza's 1987 Carnegie Hall album) will be available in two unique formats. On vinyl, its 2 LPs will be housed inside a gatefold jacket featuring the absolutely stunning original cover art by Andy Warhol. The insert has new introductions by both Ms. Minnelli and Great American Songbook champion Michael Feinstein, both
of whom served as executive producers for this release, plus photos of the artist and liner notes from reissue producers Joe Marchese and Charles L. Granata. The audio has been fully remastered from the original tapes by Mike Milchner at SonicVision for a front-row musical experience.
But we have prepared something extra-special for the CD release. Liza also
kept pristine multitrack tapes of all three nights recorded at Carnegie Hall. The tapes revealed a treasure trove of performances not included on the original double album including James Taylor's "Everybody Has the Blues," Kander and Ebb's "Arthur in the Afternoon" and "Mr. Cellophane" (the latter sung by future Dreamgirls star Obba Babatunde), a Minnelli/Babatunde duet of Cole Porter's "You Do Something to Me," the funky disco jam "Dance Across the Floor," and even a beautiful nod from Liza to her mother, Judy Garland, with a verse of "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe." These tapes have been painstakingly restored and beautifully mixed by acclaimed engineer
Ted Carfrae (Doris Day, Cilla Black) for this first-ever COMPLETE presentation of Liza's Carnegie Hall show from curtain up to curtain down. Here's your ticket to hear what those in the audience in 1979 have been talking about ever since.
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