Drg
2006
The Complete Capitol Collection
About This Album
Containing 55 tracks on two CDs running over two-and-a-half hours, The Complete Capitol Collection presents all the recordings Liza Minnelli made for Capitol Records. Minnelli was signed to Capitol in 1963 at the age of 17, just after she had made her professional debut in the Off-Broadway musical Best Foot Forward. Over the next three years, before she made her final Capitol recordings at the age of 20, she established herself as a Tony-winning Broadway star, a major nightclub performer, and a TV personality. Her recording career, however, was not as successful, as much because of the radical changes wrought in the record business by another Capitol act, the Beatles, as because making records was a relatively minor priority for her. When Capitol signed her, the label must have envisioned a younger version of her mother and labelmate Judy Garland as well as a potential competitor to rival Columbia Records' new star Barbra Streisand. That's no doubt why Capitol hired arranger/conductor Peter Matz, who worked with Streisand, to do the same with Minnelli on her first two albums, Liza! Liza! and It Amazes Me, which make up most of disc one here. As he had with Streisand, Matz resurrected obscure gems from the Great American Songbook and gave them inventive new arrangements, and Minnelli did, indeed, sound like a young Garland and like another Streisand singing them.
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Disc 1 (try tracks 1,8,12,15,16 and 25)

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