Liza Minnelli - The Best of Liza Minnelli
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Artist: Liza MinnelliEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-02-01
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
- Cabaret [From Cabaret]
- Some People [From Gypsy][Live]
- There Is a Time (Le Temps) [Live]
- Me and My Baby [From Chicago][#]
- My Own Best Friend [From Chicago]
- Old Friends [From Merrily We Roll Along][Live]
- Singer
- Ring Them Bells [Live]
- All That Jazz [From Chicago]
- Quiet Thing [From Flora, The Red Menace][Live]
- Losing My Mind [From Follies]
- Maybe This Time [From Cabaret]
- Say Liza (Liza With a 'Z') [Live]
- Stepping Out [From Stepping Out][Live]
- Theme from New York, New York
Music reviews of The Best of Liza Minnelli
Music Review: fantastic budget-priced disc for Liza fans!
Rating: 4 Stars
Although by no means complete, this run-through of Liza Minnelli's greatest hits is a fine testament to the popularity of a much-loved showbiz veteran. Things get off to a brilliant start with "Cabaret", Liza's great anthem from the classic movie musical. A live recording of "Some People" from GYPSY follows (many believe that Minnelli should have played Mama Rose during some point in her career; it's a shame that it has never happened).
I'm always amazed by the sheer velocity and raw ferociousness that Minnelli attacks her songs with, never more apparent than in songs like "There is a Time (Le Temps)" and "The Singer". "Old Friends" is a charming number that suit's Minnelli's style; and a slow, intimate "A Quiet Thing" (echoing her Tony-winning Broadway debut in FLORA THE RED MENACE) goes down like the rarest of treats.
In 1978, with only five days of rehearsal, Minnelli stunned everyone when she secretly replaced an ailing Gwen Verdon as merry murderess Roxie Hart in the Broadway production of CHICAGO. Minnelli later recorded well-received covers of her numbers "My Own Best Friend" and "Me and My Baby" (the latter is receiving it's CD premiere with this release).
Minnelli also dazzles with a rock-driven version of Sondheim's "Losing My Mind"; "Stepping Out" is a tour de force number which sadly loses some of it's impact on disc, as most is a tap routine (taken from Minnelli's 1992 Radio City Music Hall concert). The disc ends with Liza at her peak, with the theme from "New York, New York". No one has yet to touch her here.
This smartly-priced disc will be a great way to kick-start a Liza collection. Highly-recommended. [COLUMBIA/LEGACY CK 92690]
Description of The Best of Liza Minnelli
Blessed by an impeccable showbiz gene pool (her mother was Hollywood legend Judy Garland, her father producer Vincente Minelli), Liza Minelli seemed to effortlessly fuse Garland's song 'n' dance acumen with a boisterous, footlight-bred persona rivaled only by Ethel Merman. This 16-track collection is a fine introduction to her body of work, especially as it's the first anthology to cull material from her key at different labels. Bookended by her Hollywood musical icons Cabaret and Theme From New York, New York, and seasoned with Broadway tributes like "All That Jazz," it also contains a healthy cross-sampling of her compelling live work (ranging from the show-stopping "Some People" to the precocious effervescence of Liza With a Z). Though the disco-affectations of "Losing My Mind" confirm she was never able to capture the pop zeitgeist of the moment with the chameleonic ease of Streisand, her interpretations of "Quiet Thing" and "Maybe This Time" argue she was every inch her rival's equal as a torch singer. --Jerry McCulleyGeneral CDs
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