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When It Comes Down To It 1968-1977
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Album Details: When It Comes Down To It 1968-1977

Release Date:02/17/2004
Label:Raven [Australia]
UPC:612657017722

Track List: When It Comes Down To It 1968-1977

  1. Love Story
  2. Debutante's Ball
  3. Happyland
  4. So Long Dad
  5. For No One
  6. Wherefore and Why
  7. Wailing of the Willow
  8. You Better Sit Down Kids
  9. Raggedy Ann & Raggedy Andy
  10. Leavin' on a Jet Plane
  11. Don't Let Me Lose This Dream
  12. Come Saturday Morning
  13. (The Tragedy Of) Buttefly McHeart
  1. Simon
  2. Harbour
  3. More Than I Like You
  4. Mr. Emery Won't Be Home
  5. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
  6. Dancing in the Moonlight
  7. I Believe in Music
  8. Use Me
  9. Singer
  10. I'd Love You to Want Me
  11. I Love Every Little Thing About You
  12. When It Comes Down to It
  13. Come Home Babe

Pro Reviews: When It Comes Down To It 1968-1977

  • All Music Guide

    "Forget Cabaret," proposes Australian music journalist Glenn A. Baker at the outset of his liner notes to When It Comes Down to It: 19681977, Raven Records' Liza Minnelli compilation. Baker, who also conceived and compiled the album, thus sets forward the contrarian view of Minnelli's career that his selections from some of her studio albums of the late 1960s and ‘70s explore. He complains that most accounts of her give short shrift to this material, which interests him because of its connection to Australian singer/songwriter Peter Allen, her first husband, and other singer/songwriters of the period, such as Randy Newman, who is tapped for the first four tracks. Although Minnelli came up as a Broadway stage star and nightclub performer in the mid‘60s, as a recording artist she faced the same problem as the generation of singers including her mother, Judy Garland, in that period. With the onset of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, such singers, endlessly recycling the works of Cole Porter and... George Gershwin, were rendered commercially marginal. The solution many record executives hit upon was to have these singers record the songs of the new young songwriters. When Minnelli, still only in her early twenties, signed her second record contract with AM Records after a 19631966 stint at Capitol, the new label had her perform songs by Newman, John Denver, and Gordon Lightfoot, among others, on her first two AM LPs, Liza Minnelli (1968) and Come Saturday Morning (1970). Baker ignores Minnelli's next AM album, New Feelin', on which she took the opposite tack, recording traditional pop standards in rock ‘n' roll arrangements. He also skips 1972's Live at the Olympia in Paris and Liza with a "Z" since these concert recordings don't fit in with his concept. On 1973's Liza Minnelli, the Singer and 1977's Tropical Nights (both recorded for Columbia Records), Minnelli again tried contemporary material, and tracks from those albums conclude the collection.The trouble is that Minnelli was much more at home with traditional pop than with the work of the singer/songwriters of the late ‘60s and ‘70s. Right from the start of this album, as she tackles Newman's "Love Story," she entirely misses his irony. It's not that she doesn't seem to know the song has more than one level, but as a performer she is only capable of interpreting it on the surface. She can't get away from trying to be a likeable entertainer at all times, which makes her reading of another Newman song, "So Long Dad," sound so foolish. Newman's narrator is glib and mean to his father; Minnelli just can't pull that off. She is actually much better at getting to the heart of a more mediocre pop song like Sonny Bono's divorce ballad "You Better Sit Down Kids," which she does as a medley with "Married" from Cabaret (guess it can't be forgotten even here). Bono's plainly stated sentiments are ones she can sink her teeth into, just as she can appreciate the feelings of separation in "Leavin' on a Jet Plane," a song about the entertainer's traveling life. On the later material, she often sounds like she's just trying to hold her own against unsympathetic dance arrangements of songs like "Dancing in the Moonlight" and "When It Comes Down to It," the latter a Minnie Ripperton composition that call to mind the odd picture of Liza Minnelli fronting Earth, Wind Fire. Read more Less

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Liza Minnelli

Although singer-actress Liza Minnelli can count Academy Award-winning film roles, Tony Award-winning musical theater performances, Emmy Award-winning television specials, and gold-selling records among her accomplishments, she is primarily a concert performer whose career has been defined by a series of stage acts dating back to her nightclub debut in 1965. Her best wor... Read more