At Carnegie Hall

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  • Sings From the Heart
  • At Carnegie Hall
  • As of Today
  • It's Better with a Band
  • The Disney Album
  • Close as Pages in a Book
  • Live from London
  • Oscar Winners: The Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II
  • All I Ask of You
  • The Champion Season: A Salute to Gower Champion
  • Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim: Live at Carnegie Hall
  • Count Your Blessings
  • Barbara Cook's Broadway!
  • Tribute
  • Barbara Cook at the Met with Special Guests
  • No One Is Alone
  • Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
  • Hansel and Gretel [NBC Television Musical Spectacular]
  • Cheek to Cheek: Cook and Feinstein
  • You Make Me Feel So Young
  • Lover Man

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Release Date

1975

Duration

01:01:33

Genre

Styles

Recording Date

January 26, 1975

Recording Location

  • Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
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Barbara Cook's third solo album, At Carnegie Hall, which followed her second, Sings From the Heart by 16 years, marked a crucial turning point in her career. From the early 1950s to the early 1970s, Cook had been a Broadway star, her most notable appearances being in The Music Man (1957) and She Loves Me (1963). But as she reached her mid-40s, the stage offers began to dry up, and she attempted a transition to nightclub and concert work. A stint at the New York club Brothers and Sisters attracted concert promoters and led to an offer to appear in concert at Carnegie Hall on January 26, 1975. Columbia Records recorded the show, and the exposure this album brought allowed Cook to embark on the second phase of her career, one that carried her through several subsequent decades. It's easy to understand why when you listen. Cook is given strong musical support by Bill Brohn's arrangements and Wally Harper's conducting, and she puts together an excellent mixture of material that comments on her past (a trio of numbers from She Loves Me, "He Was Too Good to Me," the song sung most impressively on her first album); borrows strong but little-known material from other shows, such as "Who Are You Now?" from Funny Girl; acknowledges contemporary pop in Judy Collins' "My Father" and Leon Russell's "A Song For You"; and introduces specially written numbers by Harper. One might have hoped for more in terms of audience interaction on a live recording (perhaps her stage remarks have been edited out), but anyone listening to this album would wish to have been at the show, and would anticipate Cook's visiting in a concert hall nearby soon.

Track Listing

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
Barbara Cook
00:51 Amazon
2
Wally Harper / Paul Zakzewski
Barbara Cook
02:50 Amazon
3
Bob Merrill / Jule Styne
Barbara Cook
03:35 Amazon
4
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
Barbara Cook
03:15 Amazon
5
Robin Boult / Derek William Dick / Linda McCartney / Paul McCartney / Mickey Simmonds
Barbara Cook
02:40 Amazon
6
Jerry Bock / Sheldon Harnick
Barbara Cook
03:23 Amazon
7
Jerry Bock / Sheldon Harnick
Barbara Cook
03:31 Amazon
8
Milton Ager / Dan Dougherty / Jack Yellen
Barbara Cook
04:05 Amazon
9
Meredith Willson
Barbara Cook
04:12 Amazon
10
Wally Harper / Paul Zakzewski
Barbara Cook
02:22 Amazon
11
Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz
Barbara Cook
03:08 Amazon
12
Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn
Barbara Cook
03:43 Amazon
13
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
Barbara Cook
02:02 Amazon
14
Jerry Herman
Barbara Cook
02:20 Amazon
15
Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers
Barbara Cook
03:33 Amazon
16
Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz
Barbara Cook
03:34 Amazon
17
Judy Collins
Barbara Cook
03:54 Amazon
18
Burt Bacharach / Hal David
Barbara Cook
02:50 Amazon
19
Leon Russell
Barbara Cook
03:50 Amazon
20
Wally Harper / Paul Zakzewski
Barbara Cook
01:55 Amazon
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