16 Biggest Hits [Original recording remastered, Live]

Liza Minnelli | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 18, 2000)
• Original Release Date: July 18, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Live
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00004UASW
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,318 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Personnel includes: Liza Minnelli (vocals).Compilation producer: Didier C. Deutsch.Recorded between 1972 and 1992.Digitally remastered by Chris Herles (Sony).Personnel: Liza Minnelli (vocals); Paul McCartney (piano).Recording information: 08/15/1972-08/??/1992.Arrangers: Larry Wilcox; Fred Werner; Al Capps; Peter Matz; Billy Byers.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff, previously hard to find, July 19, 2000

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Dave Hillman (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 16 Biggest Hits (Audio CD)

This wouldn't be my ideal Greatest Hits collection for Liza Minnelli, but as it stands, it's a fine representation of her Sony/Columbia recordings. Any Liza CD that includes both "The Singer" and "Losing My Mind"--dark-hued Liza at her most wonderfully intense, circa 1972 and 1989, respectively--is worth having. Additionally, you get great, albeit not definitive, renditions of her signature tunes "New York, New York" and "Cabaret", plus the very rare songs from "Chicago" she recorded as a single back in 1975, "All That Jazz" and "My Own Best Friend." Those two were available on the now out-of-print Sony compilation "Liza", which goes for a pretty penny on eBay nowadays. Disappointingly, Sony has chosen to deprive us once again of anything from Liza's "Tropical Nights" LP, but they have included the classic Winter Garden renditions of "A Quiet Thing" and "Shine On Harvest Moon". Overall, a welcome package with no clunkers whatsoever, and hopefully a successful one that will pave the way to the LONG overdue releases of Sony's "Liza Minnelli Live at the Winter Garden" and "Tropical Nights" on CD. Enough with the compilations: give us the complete original albums!

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars SOME DAY....a new album by Liza will be this Great!, August 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: 16 Biggest Hits (Audio CD)

Of course 'Cabaret' and 'New York, New York' are here.....but why the strange title "16 Biggest Hits." They were certainly all hits with ME, so maybe that's what the title means....Hits with the True Fans who did love her, do love her, will always love her. But not to include 'The World Goes Round,' my all-time favorite Minnelli song? And I was thrilled to see Peter Allen's 'More Than I Like You' ("waiting in the rain.....where the hell's the train?") but why not his haunting 'Harbour' that Liza sang so beautifully on the other side of that original '45? I was glad to see 'Some People,' which Liza has made her own, but the same can be said about 'The Man I Love' and 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out,' neither of them included. And what about 'Maybe This Time' and "Tropical Nights' and 'God Bless the Child' (God bless Billie Holliday for turning that song over to Liza, but it is now HER property, should have been here!) Ah, well, be grateful for what we have.....her rousing 'Old Friend' and 'The Singer,' which I once heard was written about Judy just for Liza to sing. If not a true story....it should be. And now I suppose the words might apply to Liza herself, but my wish, hope, dream is that a new album is released soon.......she won't need compilations to remind people that here is the greatest entertainer of this or any era. Hang in there, Liza......we're right here beside you!!!!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You have to get this CD, July 20, 2000

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Bob Waskiewicz (Wintersville, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 16 Biggest Hits (Audio CD)

This is the CD I've been waiting for.I just wish Liza would have a Box Set out like all the other great Artist,but untill that day comes,I'll be playing this greatest hits record for along time.Most of the songs are live,but that has always been Liza's greatest moments on records.First you get three of Liza'a hits from the 1972 album,"Liza with a Z." This fantastic songs included,along with "Cabaret," and "Ring Them Bells." The greatest song Liza has every sang,"Shine on Harvest Moon," from the 1974 album,"Liza,Live at the Winter Garden,"is included on this tape.Liza shows off her great voice and humor on this one number.I go nuts when Liza sings,"I ain't had none since,Lord knows when."If radio stations would have the guts to play this one song,I'm sure it would be a Hit. Another cut from that album,"A Quiet thing," from Liza's broadway show,"Flora,the red Menace," is another one of my favorites ,about everything coming true,just the way you plan,and its a Quiet Thing.I love it at the end,when you can hear a guy from the audience yealing,"Beutifull Liza." Two songs from the 1975 musical,"Chicago,"are on the CD. "My Own Best Friend,"and "All that Jazz." Liza was suppose to do the movie version of the play,but nothing ever happened. Only Two of Liza's studio albums are featured on this tape.The 1973 record,"The Singer,"with this song,and Carly Simon's number 1 hit,"Your so Vain," and Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway's,"Where is the Love." The other studio album,"Results," with Liza's big hit,"Losing my Mind."The rest of the songs are from Liza's record breaking,"Live from Radio City Music Hall."Some People,Old Friends,"and the Theme from "New York,New York." There's alot more songs I would like to have on this CD,but you will not be disapointed. I think this is going to be a big hit for Liza.