Cleo at Carnegie: The 10th Anniversary Concert

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Cleo at Carnegie: The 10th Anniversary Concert
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Live album by
ReleasedApril 6, 1983 (1983-04-06)
Length55:27
Label RCA
Producer Kurt Gebauer, John Dankworth

Cleo at Carnegie: The 10th Anniversary Concert is a live album by Cleo Laine, recorded at Carnegie Hall and released in April 1983 through RCA Records. [1] The album earned Laine a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female. [2] John Dankworth was the arranger.

Cleo Laine English jazz singer and an actress

Dame Cleo Laine is an English jazz and pop singer and an actress, known for her scat singing and for her vocal range. Though her natural range is that of a contralto, she is able to produce a G above high C, giving her an overall compass of well over three octaves. Laine is the only female performer to have received Grammy nominations in the jazz, popular and classical music categories. She is the widow of jazz composer Sir John Dankworth.

Carnegie Hall concert hall in New York City

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records, Arista Records, and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, classical, rock, hip hop, afrobeat, electronic, R&B, blues, jazz, and country. Its name is derived from the initials of its defunct parent company, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). It was fully acquired by Bertelsmann in 1986, making it a part of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG); however, RCA Records became a part of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, a merger between BMG and Sony Music, in 2004, and was acquired by the latter in 2008, after the dissolution of Sony BMG and the restructuring of Sony Music. It is the second-oldest record label in American history, after sister label Columbia Records.

Contents

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Any Place I Hang My Head"
  2. "It's a Grand Night for Singing"
  3. "Good Morning"
  4. "It's a Lovely Day Today"
  5. "I'm Shadowing You"
  6. "Crazy Rhythm"
  7. "Primrose Color Blue"

Side two

  1. "We Are the Music Makers"
  2. "You Spotted Snakes"
  3. "Methuselah"
  4. "When I Was One and Twenty"
  5. "Sing Me No Song"
  6. "Triboro' Fair"

Side three

  1. "You've Got To Do What You've Got To Do"
  2. "He Was Beautiful"
  3. "Turkish Delight"
  4. "Never Let Me Go"

Side four

Hoagy Carmichael Medley

  1. "Georgia on My Mind"
  2. "Lazy Bones"
  3. "The Nearness of You"
  4. "I Get Along Without You Very Well"
  5. "My Resistance Is Low"
  6. "Stardust"
  7. "I Want to Be Happy"

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References

  1. "Cleo at Carnegie: The 10th Anniversary Concert". Allmusic . Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  2. "Cleo at Carnegie: The 10th Anniversary Concert: Charts & Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved July 26, 2011.