Liza Minnelli - Live in New York 1979 (Red Vinyl)

Start spreading the news: Liza Minnelli's long-lost live album recorded inthe very heart of New York, New York is getting the deluxe vinyl and evenmore deluxe CD treatment from Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records!When the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony-winning superstar (and future GrammyLegend) 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 ofeleven consecutive shows through September 14�the longest run in the Hall'shistory. Not only that, but every show in the five-level, 2,804-seat venue wassold out. (This record stood until 1987, when an artist played three straightweeks of sold-out shows there. That artist? Liza Minnelli.) Liza had theforesight to record three nights of concerts; two years later, in 1981, shebegan selling the limited release at her live dates. The Live at Carnegie Halldouble album preserved Liza's electrifying, roof-raising evening from start tofinish, including definitive versions of familiar showstoppers such as JohnKander and Fred Ebb's Cabaret, But the World Goes 'Round, and ThemeFrom 'New York, New York' as well as fresh versions of contemporary popand classic Broadway standards from luminaries including George and IraGershwin, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim, Barry Manilow, and MelissaManchester. But, deprived of proper retail distribution, the album neverreached 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, bothof 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 alsokept 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 engineerTed 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.