Liza Minnelli ‘s long-lost live album, recorded in the heart of New York. When the Oscar, Emmy and Tony award winner (and future Grammy legend) took the stage at the legendary Carnegie Hall on September 4, 1979, the concert was already a highly anticipated event. It was to be the first of eleven consecutive shows through September 14 – the longest concert run in the Hall’s history.
Not only that, but every show in the 5-story, 2,804-seat hall was sold out. (That record stood until 1987, when one artist played sold-out shows there for three weeks in a row. That artist? Liza Minnelli.) Liza had the foresight to record three nights of concerts; two years two years later, in 1981, she began selling the limited edition version at her live performances.
The Live at Carnegie Halldouble album captured Liza’s electrifying, rousing evening from start to finish, including definitive versions of familiar showstoppers like John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Cabaret, But the World Goes ‘Round and Theme From New York, New York, as well as new versions of contemporary pop, pop and classic Broadway standards by such luminaries as George and Ira Gershwin, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim, Barry Manilow and Melissa Manchester.
However, because the album was not distributed at retail, it never reached a wide audience…. until now!
