Customer Reviews

The Best of Liberace

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The selections are representative of Liberace's unique, gloriously kitschy style. Unfortunately, the sound quality leaves a lot to be desired, as loud notes from the piano are often subject to peak distortion. Hard to tell whether the flaw is in the master tape or the transfer - background hiss appears to have been cleaned up nicely via No-Noise process, but some extra hiss wouldn't be as distracting as the distortions. There is no info in the liner notes about when/where these cuts were recorded, but it sounds like late 1950s or early to mid 1960s stereo.

This album truly shows the talent of the piano virtuoso! Liberace is clearly the most talented piano player of his day when it comes to popular music and this is a great collection of songs played only as he could do it. The recording plays just fine on my cd player and the rerecording is of good quality.

What a magnificient cd to listen to. It holds so much excitement, tantalates the soul, has the head nodding and has the fingers moving upon the imaginary ivory keys with this talented man.

Liberace was a class act. I first saw him as a child on his syndicated television show in the early 50's. To a child, as I was then, his voice was a bit strange to me, but his ability to make music appealed to me. This is an enjoyable cd, but the audio mix on some tracks was a concern to me. Literally, his theme song, I'll Be Seeing You, has a poor audio mix. His piano is on the left channel only and is low level. Since he plays the lead melody line his piano should have been more predominant. I use an audio restoration program that allows me to do many things. I loaded that track and boosted the left channel 4 decibels and now, to me, to piano is more upfront, as it should be and sounds much better. Other friends have heard my "remix" and agree it is an improvement. Otherwise, if you like Liberace you'll enjoy this disc. He was a consumate entertainer.

Liberace at his best. I have what I think is all his CD's and this is a great addition to my collection. I saw him in person in Fla. many years ago and the beautiful music and his unique styling brings back many wonderful memories. Buy it. You'll like it!

Liberace was the embodiment of the showy pianist, irreverent, the actor (He starred The Chandelles, a villain who had a twin in Batman)the spectacle per excellence, the outlaw generation. Liberace was for the piano what Warhol for painting. Las Vegas was for him his second home. And this album includes part of his live performances. He gave the easy to listen music a curious blending of classic and pop music with his well known eccentricities and mannerisms, but for better or worst was part of the sixties, with the rack pack, neon lights and psychedelic ambiance.

Don't miss it.

I first met Liberace in 1971 in Vancouver. We clicked immediately. I was a gay man in deep denial, he was outrageous, flamboyant and out in the open. Needless to say I fell in love, not only with the man but with his music. This CD reveals what a true Genius the man was. Let the music do the talking. After listening to this I can hold my head high and I actually feel liberated. The passion of Liberace pulses through this disc

This CD appears to be recorded from live concerts and contains a lot of chatter. I ordered for "nice" background music and easy listening, not a lot of Liberace's comments.