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3.0 out of 5 stars
There is a more complete concert CD set out there!, August 14, 2010
I share the frustration of "Richard J. Gatton "Garland Fan #1"" regarding DRG's incomplete compliation of the Palladium concert with Judy & Liza, but there is a near COMPLETE 2-CD out there, produced in Germany. It's on the "Public Domain (A new Label of ZYX Music)" (PD 2005-2) label. It has 19 numbers (including "The Music That Makes Me Dance"). It is a beautiful transfer and well worth seeking-out. Contact me if you would like more information.
1964 Concert
Act I:
Overture: Over the Rainbow/Once in a Lifetime/Never Will
I Marry/What Now, My Love?/Liza/The Travelin' Life/
Smile/Maybe This Time/The Man That Got Away
Once in a Lifetime (Garland)
Maggie, Maggie May (Garland)
As Long As He Needs Me (Garland)(Nov. 8 only)
Just in Time (Garland)
It's Yourself (Garland)
The Travelin' Life (Minnelli)
Pass That Peace Pipe (Minnelli)(Nov. 8 only)
The Gypsy in My Soul (Minnelli)
How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When
You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life? (Minnelli)
Hello, Dolly (Duet)
Together (Wherever We Go)(Duet)
Smile (Garland)
Never Will I Marry (Garland)
What Now, My Love? (Garland)(in Act II on Nov. 15)
The Man That Got Away (Garland)(in Act I on Nov. 8)
Medley: We Could Make Such Beautiful Music/The Best Is
Yet to Come/Bob White/Don't Rain on My Parade/Swanee
(in Act II on Nov. 8)(Duet)
Act II:
Medley: By Myself/Take Me Along/If I Could Be With You/
Me and My Shadow/That's Entertainment/Tea for Two/
Who?/They Can't Take That Away From Me/I Love a
Piano (Nov. 15 only (?))/Mammy)(Minnelli)
Medley: Hooray for Love/After You've Gone/By Myself/'S
Wonderful/How About You?/Lover, Come Back to Me/
You and the Night and the Music/It All Depends on You
(Duet)
Make Someone Happy (Garland)
Joey, Joey, Joey (Garland)
The Man That Got Away (Garland)(in Act I on Nov. 15)
The Music That Makes Me Dance (Garland)
It's Just a Matter of Time (Minnelli)
I'm All I've Got (Minnelli)
If I Were in Your Shoes (Minnelli)
What Now, My Love? (Garland)(in Act I on Nov. 8)
Medley: Johnny One Note (Nov. 15 only)/Get Happy
- Happy Days Are Here Again/When the Saints Go
Marchin' In - Brotherhood of Man/He's Got the Whole
World in His Hands/Battle Hymn of the Republic (Duet)
(Nov. 8 only)
Encores:
Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (Garland)
Who's Sorry Now? (Minnelli)
Swanee (in Act I on Nov. 8)(Duet)
Chicago (Duet on Nov. 8)(Garland solo on Nov. 15)
Over the Rainbow (Garland)
San Francisco (Duet)
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1965 LP
Side 1:
Overture: Over the Rainbow/
Never Will I Marry/What Now,
My Love?/Liza/The Travelin' Life/
Smile/The Man That Got Away
The Man That Got Away (Garland)
The Travelin' Life (Minnelli)
Gypsy in My Soul (Minnelli)
Hello, Dolly (Duet)
Together (Wherever We Go)(Duet)
Medley: We Could Make Such
Beautiful Music Together/Bob
White (Duet)
Side 2:
Medley: Hooray For Love/After
You've Gone/By Myself/'S
Wonderful/How About You?/You
and the Night and the Music/
Who's Sorry Now? (Duet)
Who's Sorry Now?
Smile (Garland)
How Could You Believe Me When I
Said I Love You When You Know
I've Been a Liar All My Life?
(Minnelli)
What Now, My Love? (Garland)
Side 3:
Medley: Take Me Along/If I Could
Be With You/Tea For Two/Who?/
They Can't Take That Away From
Me/By Myself/Take Me Along/
Mammy (Minnelli)
Make Someone Happy (Garland)
Pass That Peace Pipe (Minnelli)
The Music That Makes Me Dance
(Garland)
Medley: When the Saints Go
Marching In/He's Got the Whole
World in His Hands (Duet)
Side 4:
Never Will I Marry (Garland)
Encores:
Swanee (Duet)
Chicago (Duet)
Over the Rainbow (Garland)
San Francisco (Duet)
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Garland and Minnelli - together in their landmark Palladium concert!, May 5, 2010
If you've only ever seen the filmed version of the 1964 Judy Garland/Liza Minnelli London Palladium concert, then this disc will be a real treat. It's a combination of two nights in the concert's run; Garland's well-known vocal problems during this time (and acutely witnessed in the filmed performance) aren't as apparent.
The concert was recorded, first and foremost, because Garland owed the Capitol label another album. The previous year had been taken up by the commitments involving her TV series, and Garland naturally didn't want to compromise her voice by overworking it on additional projects. Capitol excitedly took on the album as a "sequel-of-sorts" to her legendary live Carnegie Hall platter.
The 1964 London Palladium concert also showcased a burgeoning Liza Minnelli, only a few months before her Tony Award-winning Broadway debut in "Flora, The Red Menace". She had just released her first solo album ("Liza! Liza!") on the Capitol label, but her ability in performing for a paying concert crowd had yet to be tested. What she lacked in a fully polished performance was more than compensated by her incredible energy and unique charm. She was barely eighteen years old when "Momma" plucked her up to perform as a co-star in Garland's long awaited London return! Her songs, mostly taken from the "Liza! Liza!" album, included such great pieces as "It's Just a Matter of Time", "Gypsy in My Soul", and "The Travelin' Life". A later addition to Minnelli's set, "Pass That Peace-Pipe", came from the movie version of GOOD NEWS, and also acted within the concert as a charming throwback to the 'MGM days' of Garland. Another lively Minnelli number, "How Could You Believe Me...?", might well have been introduced by Garland herself (Jane Powell eventually replaced her in the MGM favourite ROYAL WEDDING after she suffered a breakdown).
While Garland was clearly experiencing some frustrating vocal difficulties during the Palladium season (most of which have been unfairly pegged by biographers as the by-effects of Garland trying to somehow compete in her duets with Minnelli); Judy Garland gives one of her most remarkable performances, in particular her haunting, time-stands-still "The Music That Makes Me Dance" (from FUNNY GIRL), the manic "What Now My Love?"; and a charming "Never Will I Marry".
This was to be Garland's final engagement at the Palladium; one can't help but feel it was her way of "handing the torch" to Minnelli. From beginning to end it's a sheer tour-de-force. Recommended.
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