Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
31	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	1	2	3	4

Liza Minnelli - The Singer (1973) [2017, Remastered & Expanded Edition]

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 7 Oct 2023 16:36:10

"The Singer" is the 7th studio album by American actress and singer Liza Minnelli. The album is a milestone in Minnelli's career as it is her only studio album (i.e. non-soundtrack) to reach the Top 40 on the Billboard 200 Album chart. The album also peaked at #45 in the UK Albums Chart. The album was re-released in CD by Cherry Red Records with 4 additional bonus tracks.

~Wikipedia

By the end of 1972, Liza Minnelli was at a career high point. That year, she had starred in the movie version of Cabaret, for which she would win the Academy Award for best actress, and she had also performed her nightclub/concert act, Liza with a "Z" for a television special that would win an Emmy as Outstanding Variety/Music Program. Both the Cabaret and Liza with a "Z" soundtrack LPs became gold records. So, when Minnelli entered the recording studio to make her first studio album for Columbia Records (following stints at Capitol and A&M), she seemed to have the potential finally to break through as a recording star. That potential, however, was squandered on the resulting LP, The Singer. Unfortunately, while Cabaret and Liza with a "Z" had been ideal showcases for Minnelli's bravura singing, dancing, and acting abilities, no one, not the artist herself or anyone in her management or record company, could come up with a comparable concept for her as a recording artist. One selection on the album, the title song "The Singer," which sounded like an outtake from Cabaret even though it had not been written by the show's songwriters, John Kander and Fred Ebb, played to her strengths as a performer. The other ten tracks, however, simply had her offering her own versions of songs that were hits in the fall of 1972 and the winter of 1973, as recorded by the likes of Mac Davis, Carly Simon, James Taylor, Bill Withers, and others. (The only exception was Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," still just an LP track from Talking Book when Minnelli covered it, although it soon went on to top the singles charts in Wonder's original recording.) This was the same tack that Columbia was taking, for example, with Andy Williams in the same period; it seemed as though the singer picked the material by listening to the radio on the car ride to the studio. Minnelli did her best with the songs, appealingly reversing the sex of the narrators of Lobo's "I'd Love You to Want Me" and Taylor's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight," and one could easily envision the production number that might accompany her rendition of "Dancing in the Moonlight." But the songs were almost invariably better performed by the songwriters themselves in the singer/songwriter environment of the early '70s. The Singer became the highest charting studio LP of Minnelli's career, reaching the Top 40. But it missed a chance to establish her recording career on the same firm ground as her acting and live performing.

~Review by William Ruhlmann

Release of the album: 1973, March, 1 [LP Columbia Records, Cat.# KC 32149, USA]
Release of this CD: 2017, April, 28 [CD Strike Force Entertainment (UK), Cat.# SFE 056/ UPC: 5013929846623]
All tracks ℗ 1972-1975 Sony Music Entertainment.
This compilation ℗ 2017 Sony Music Entertainment.
© 2017 Cherry Red Records trading as Strike Force Entertainment.
Issued under licence from Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited.
Made in the EU

Credits:

Arranged By – Al Capps
Arranged By [Vocals] – Marvin Hamlisch
Art Direction – Ron Coro
Engineer – Lenny Roberts
Photography – Alan Pappé
Producer – Snuff Garrett

Tracklist:

01. I Believe In Music (03:33)
(Mac Davis)
02. Use Me (03:38)
(Bill Withers)
03. I'd Love You To Want Me (03:38)
(Lobo)
04. Oh Babe, What Would You Say? (03:34)
(Eileen Sylvia Smith)
05. You're So Vain (03:32)
(Carly Simon)
06. Where Is The Love? (02:50)
(Ralph MacDonald, William Salter)
07. The Singer (02:32)
(Walter Marks)
08. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight (03:53)
(James Taylor)
09. Dancing In The Moonlight (03:17)
(Sherman Kelly)
10. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life (02:35)
(Stevie Wonder)
11. Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me (02:49)
(Mac Davis)
Bonus Tracks:
12. Mr. Emery Won't Be Home (02:48)
(B. Stone)
13. All That Jazz (from 'Chicago') (03:07)
(John Kander, Fred Ebb)
14. My Own Best Friend (from 'Chicago') (03:12)
(J. Kander, F. Ebb)
15. Me And My Baby (from 'Chicago') (01:52)
(J. Kander, F. Ebb)

EAC log

Exact Audio Copy V1.3 from 2. September 2016

EAC extraction logfile from 14. October 2021, 19:50

Liza Minnelli / The Singer (Expanded Edition)

Used drive : PIONEER BD-RW BDR-208D Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 667
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 3:32.60 | 0 | 15959
2 | 3:32.60 | 3:38.03 | 15960 | 32312
3 | 7:10.63 | 3:37.58 | 32313 | 48645
4 | 10:48.46 | 3:33.56 | 48646 | 64676
5 | 14:22.27 | 3:31.70 | 64677 | 80571
6 | 17:54.22 | 2:49.56 | 80572 | 93302
7 | 20:44.03 | 2:32.35 | 93303 | 104737
8 | 23:16.38 | 3:53.07 | 104738 | 122219
9 | 27:09.45 | 3:16.61 | 122220 | 136980
10 | 30:26.31 | 2:35.08 | 136981 | 148613
11 | 33:01.39 | 2:48.45 | 148614 | 161258
12 | 35:50.09 | 2:48.32 | 161259 | 173890
13 | 38:38.41 | 3:06.58 | 173891 | 187898
14 | 41:45.24 | 3:11.53 | 187899 | 202276
15 | 44:57.02 | 1:52.28 | 202277 | 210704

Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename D:\BlondStyle\Liza Minnelli - The Singer (Expanded Edition).wav

Peak level 100.0 %
Extraction speed 6.4 X
Range quality 99.9 %
Test CRC 3EFFA839
Copy CRC 3EFFA839
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

Track 1 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [2C6C1E7E] (AR v2)
Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [5B41C27E] (AR v2)
Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [EA35EB3E] (AR v2)
Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [CFAD2451] (AR v2)
Track 5 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [2C93FCC0] (AR v2)
Track 6 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [134AE6D7] (AR v2)
Track 7 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [7F46ED98] (AR v2)
Track 8 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [7255A3A0] (AR v2)
Track 9 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [B8250012] (AR v2)
Track 10 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [85C48713] (AR v2)
Track 11 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [197A6055] (AR v2)
Track 12 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [72D03EF3] (AR v2)
Track 13 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [FA9953AD] (AR v2)
Track 14 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [9C2FEF4E] (AR v2)
Track 15 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [AAE8CC1E] (AR v2)

All tracks accurately ripped

End of status report

–– CUETools DB Plugin V2.1.6

[CTDB TOCID: .LrAuk0cr23HqmQwhMv0CfE64Po-] found
Submit result: already submitted
Track | CTDB Status
1 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
2 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
3 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
4 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
5 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
6 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
7 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
8 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
9 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
10 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
11 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
12 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
13 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
14 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
15 | (3/3) Accurately ripped

==== Log checksum FD4FDF9E1584EFC3074D36FD0620561C72F671C6824BAB2F37A89879664CC904 ====

Dynamic Range Meter log

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Analyzed: Liza Minnelli / The Singer (Expanded Edition)
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

DR Peak RMS Duration Track
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
DR11 0.00 dB -14.23 dB 3:33 01-I Believe In Music
DR12 0.00 dB -15.99 dB 3:38 02-Use Me
DR11 0.00 dB -13.87 dB 3:38 03-I'd Love You To Want Me
DR10 0.00 dB -13.64 dB 3:34 04-Oh Babe, What Would You Say?
DR12 0.00 dB -14.45 dB 3:32 05-You're So Vain
DR11 0.00 dB -13.52 dB 2:50 06-Where Is The Love?
DR10 -1.00 dB -12.98 dB 2:32 07-The Singer
DR11 0.00 dB -16.27 dB 3:53 08-Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
DR7 -2.00 dB -10.93 dB 3:17 09-Dancing In The Moonlight
DR7 -2.00 dB -11.32 dB 2:35 10-You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
DR10 0.00 dB -13.11 dB 2:49 11-Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me
DR11 0.00 dB -12.99 dB 2:48 12-Mr. Emery Won't Be Home (Bonus Track)
DR9 0.00 dB -12.21 dB 3:07 13-All That Jazz (from 'Chicago') (Bonus Track)
DR10 0.00 dB -12.95 dB 3:12 14-My Own Best Friend (from 'Chicago') (Bonus Track)
DR10 0.00 dB -12.99 dB 1:52 15-Me And My Baby (from 'Chicago') (Bonus Track)
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Number of tracks: 15
Official DR value: DR10

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 881 kbps
Codec: FLAC
================================================================================

♫~Welcome To My Blog~♫

password: BlondStyle

Flac
Artwork

Pop Vocal Jazz-Pop Traditional Pop Liza Minnelli 1973 FLAC lossless CD-Rip+Scans Remastered Expanded Edition