Liza! Liza!
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| Studio album by Liza Minnelli | ||||
| Released | September 1964 | |||
| Recorded | June 1964, Manhattan | |||
| Genre | Pop, vocal, traditional | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | Si Rady | |||
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Liza! Liza! is Liza Minnelli's debut studio solo album, released in September 1964 by Capitol Records. It contained her interpretations of twelve pop standards. It was recorded in June 1964 at Capitol Records' New York studio at 151 West 46th Street. It was re-released in 1988 by Capitol, in a retitled version ("Maybe This Time - Liza Minnelli sings the sensational hit from the film Cabaret") with the same track listing and the songs in the same order, but a different cover art.
When Liza Minnelli recorded the songs in this album she was just a teenager. At just seventeen she had starred in the Off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward in 1963 (a year after recording this album she would win her first Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway musical Flora the Red Menace). The publicity surrounding her abilities led to television appearances and a single on the Cadence Records label.
This single, "You Are for Loving", a song she performed on the show, reportedly sold half a million copies. On the strength of this, Capitol signed the singer and slowly began issuing several singles targeted to Minnelli's own age group and later committed to a whole album. These singles were recorded over the summer of 1963 in New York and by reviewing this output it is clear the artistry displayed by Minnelli was not that of a regular teenager.
For the creation of her debut album, she turned to her friend and classmate Marvin Hamlisch, who could help her in choosing the tunes. At the time he was working in the Broadway production of Funny Girl. It is noteworthy that two of the songs featured on the album, "It's Just a Matter of Time" and "The Travelin' Life", were cut by Minnelli with Hamlisch on piano 2 years earlier as a gift to her mother. Another one of the tracks featured here, "If I Were in Your Shoes", was written by the young writers Fred Ebb and John Kander, who had yet to make a big impact on the stage. It was the start of a decade-long collaboration during which the trio delivered several unforgettable hits.
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