Release Date: 01 July 2022
Label: Real Gone Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 848064013792
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!
Live in New York 1979: The Ultimate Edition is available on 3 CDs, all of which overflow with showbiz sizzle: one disc with Mike Milchner's remastered
version of the original vinyl release, which premieres on CD, and two discs with the never-before-released complete show. This deluxe edition also features an expanded booklet with additional photos, liner notes, and exclusive tributes from Liza's friends and collaborators inside a gorgeous, 8-panel digipak boasting the Warhol portrait.
Those little town blues will surely melt away as you relive this once-in-a-lifetime evening with an extraordinary artist at the thrilling height of her powers.
Never before available at music retail!
Tracklisting
X-Ray Spex
Tyketto
Loudon Wainwright Iii
Petula Clark
The Donnas
Tiny Tim
Willie Nelson
Willie Hutch
Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli
Judy Garland
Liza Minelli
Liza Minnelli
