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Liza Minnelli recorded three LPs and a handful of singles for Capitol Records in the U.S. between 1963 and 1966, when she was between the ages of 17 and 20. British parent label EMI Records' 22-track compilation Essential Liza Minnelli ignores the singles and compresses the albums into 66 minutes, starting with the complete contents of 12 songs from the first one, Liza! Liza! (1964), albeit in a different sequence, followed by five tracks from the second, It Amazes Me (1965), and five from the third, There Is a Time (1966). That seems like an odd balance, since Minnelli grew more assured as she went along in her teens and, if anything, There Is a Time is the most accomplished of the three LPs. It is also, however, different in style from the first two. Both Liza! Liza! and It Amazes Me were arranged and conducted by Peter Matz, who chose show music standards and worthy show music obscurities and gave them inventive new arrangements (just as he was doing at the same time for Barbra Streisand). There Is a Time, however, employing arranger/conductor Ray Ellis (another Streisand collaborator), was a concept album largely consisting of French songs written by the likes of Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. It makes sense to segregate the selections from that album and to put them at the end. But more songs from the disc would have strengthened the collection, as would a few of Minnelli's singles-only tracks, such as the four songs she recorded for Capitol from her Tony-winning performance in Flora, the Red Menace. Essential Liza Minnelli features some excellent early recordings by Minnelli, notably her first version of "Maybe This Time," a song that would become a signature number for her after she repeated it in the movie version of Cabaret in 1972. But as a single-CD compilation of her Capitol Records recordings, it could have been better selected and sequenced. [Essential Liza Minnelli was released originally in 1997 under the title Best of Liza Minnelli: The Capitol Years and reissued in 2001 under the title The Capitol Years. Unlike its predecessors, Essential Liza Minnelli is given a deceptive title that implies it is more comprehensive than it is, and a cover photograph of a much older Liza Minnelli that compounds that deception.]
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Richard Rodgers, Composer - Lorenz Hart, Author - Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - Peter Matz, Conductor - Simon Rady, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1964 Capitol Records, LLC
Ira Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Harold Arlen, ComposerLyricist - Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - E.Y. HARBURG, ComposerLyricist - Peter Matz, Conductor - Simon Rady, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1964 Capitol Records, LLC
Tom Jones, Composer - Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - Harvey Schmidt, Author - Simon Rady, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1987 Capitol Records, Inc.
Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - Al Stillman, ComposerLyricist - ROBERT ALLEN, ComposerLyricist - Peter Matz, Conductor - Simon Rady, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1964 Capitol Records, LLC
Jerome Kern, ComposerLyricist - Oscar Hammerstein II , ComposerLyricist - Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - Peter Matz, Conductor - Simon Rady, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1964 Capitol Records, LLC
Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - Marvin Hamlisch, ComposerLyricist - Peter Matz, Conductor - Howard Liebling, ComposerLyricist - Simon Rady, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1964 Capitol Records, LLC
Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - Peter Matz, Conductor - Simon Rady, Producer - Richard Everitt, ComposerLyricist - Laurence Stith, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1964 Capitol Records, LLC
Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - Peter Matz, Conductor - Simon Rady, Producer - Richard Everitt, ComposerLyricist - Laurence Stith, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1964 Capitol Records, LLC
Norrie Paramor, Unknown, Other - Stephen Sondheim, ComposerLyricist - Jule Styne, ComposerLyricist - Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - Harry Robinson, Conductor - Judy Garland, MainArtist - Simon Rady, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - John Kander, ComposerLyricist - Fred Ebb, ComposerLyricist - Peter Matz, Conductor - Simon Rady, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1964 Capitol Records, LLC
Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - Peter Matz, Conductor - Milton Schafer, ComposerLyricist - Simon Rady, Producer - Ronald Graham, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1964 Capitol Records, LLC
Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - John Kander, ComposerLyricist - Fred Ebb, ComposerLyricist - Peter Matz, Conductor - Simon Rady, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1964 Capitol Records, LLC
Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - John Kander, ComposerLyricist - Fred Ebb, ComposerLyricist - Peter Matz, Conductor - Simon Rady, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - CY COLEMAN, ComposerLyricist - CAROLYN LEIGH, ComposerLyricist - Peter Matz, Conductor - Simon Rady, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, ComposerLyricist - Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - Peter Matz, Conductor - Simon Rady, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - E.Y. HARBURG, ComposerLyricist - Vernon Duke, ComposerLyricist - Peter Matz, Conductor - Simon Rady, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Harold Arlen, ComposerLyricist - Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - Peter Matz, Conductor - Simon Rady, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
Ray Ellis, Conductor - Jacques Brel, ComposerLyricist - Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - W. Holt, ComposerLyricist - Marvin Holtzman, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1966 Capitol Records, LLC
Ray Ellis, Conductor - George Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ira Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - Buddy DeSylva, ComposerLyricist - Marvin Holtzman, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1966 Capitol Records, LLC
Will Holt, ComposerLyricist - Ray Ellis, Conductor - Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - Marvin Holtzman, Producer - Gerald Calvi, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1966 Capitol Records, LLC
Jerry Leiber, ComposerLyricist - Mike Stoller, ComposerLyricist - Ray Ellis, Conductor - Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - Mogol, ComposerLyricist - Carlo Donida, ComposerLyricist - Marvin Holtzman, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1966 Capitol Records, LLC
Ray Ellis, Conductor - Charles Aznavour, ComposerLyricist - Liza Minnelli, MainArtist - Jeff Davis, ComposerLyricist - Eugene Lees, ComposerLyricist - Marvin Holtzman, Producer
(C) 2003 EMI Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2003 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1966 Capitol Records, LLC
Album review
Liza Minnelli recorded three LPs and a handful of singles for Capitol Records in the U.S. between 1963 and 1966, when she was between the ages of 17 and 20. British parent label EMI Records' 22-track compilation Essential Liza Minnelli ignores the singles and compresses the albums into 66 minutes, starting with the complete contents of 12 songs from the first one, Liza! Liza! (1964), albeit in a different sequence, followed by five tracks from the second, It Amazes Me (1965), and five from the third, There Is a Time (1966). That seems like an odd balance, since Minnelli grew more assured as she went along in her teens and, if anything, There Is a Time is the most accomplished of the three LPs. It is also, however, different in style from the first two. Both Liza! Liza! and It Amazes Me were arranged and conducted by Peter Matz, who chose show music standards and worthy show music obscurities and gave them inventive new arrangements (just as he was doing at the same time for Barbra Streisand). There Is a Time, however, employing arranger/conductor Ray Ellis (another Streisand collaborator), was a concept album largely consisting of French songs written by the likes of Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. It makes sense to segregate the selections from that album and to put them at the end. But more songs from the disc would have strengthened the collection, as would a few of Minnelli's singles-only tracks, such as the four songs she recorded for Capitol from her Tony-winning performance in Flora, the Red Menace. Essential Liza Minnelli features some excellent early recordings by Minnelli, notably her first version of "Maybe This Time," a song that would become a signature number for her after she repeated it in the movie version of Cabaret in 1972. But as a single-CD compilation of her Capitol Records recordings, it could have been better selected and sequenced. [Essential Liza Minnelli was released originally in 1997 under the title Best of Liza Minnelli: The Capitol Years and reissued in 2001 under the title The Capitol Years. Unlike its predecessors, Essential Liza Minnelli is given a deceptive title that implies it is more comprehensive than it is, and a cover photograph of a much older Liza Minnelli that compounds that deception.]
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 01:05:39
- Main artists: Liza Minnelli
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: EMI Trade Marketing
- Genre: Classical Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred)
© 2003 EMI Records Ltd This Compilation ℗ 1997 Capitol Records Inc.
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