Live! One Night Only

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Live! One Night Only
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Live album by
Patti LaBelle
ReleasedSeptember 22, 1998
RecordedJune 2–3, 1998
Venue Hammerstein Ballroom, Manhattan Center, New York City
Length1:33:33
Label MCA
Producer Arif Mardin, Armstead Edwards
Patti LaBelle chronology
Flame
(1997)		Live! One Night Only
(1998)		 When a Woman Loves
(2000)

Live! One Night Only is a live album by Patti LaBelle, released in September 1998 through the record label MCA. [1] The album earned LaBelle the Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. The album was recorded in New York at the Hammerstein Ballroom on June 2, 1998. [2] [3]

Contents

Track listing

Disc 1
  1. "I Believe" (Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl, Al Stillman) – 3:55
  2. "When You Talk About Love" (Harris, Lewis, Ann Nesby, James "Big Jim" Wright) – 4:59
  3. "Flame" (Ira Antelis, Brenda Russell) – 4:28
  4. "He Doesn't Love You" (Sandy Knox, Billy Stritch) – 3:01
  5. "New Attitude" (Jon Gilutin, Bunny Hull, Sharon Robinson) – 2:23
  6. "If You Asked Me To" (Diane Warren) – 3:13
  7. "If Only You Knew" (Cynthia Biggs, Gamble, Dexter Wansel) – 7:13
  8. "You Are My Friend" (Armstead Edwards, James Budd Ellison, Patti LaBelle) – 5:21
  9. "Lord's Side" (Timothy Wright) – 6:12
Disc 2
  1. "The Bells" (Anna Gordy Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Iris Gordy, Elgie Stover) – 3:17
  2. "Is It Still Good to You" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson) – 4:41 - duet with Gerald Levert
  3. "Don't Make Me Over" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 3:13
  4. "If You Love Me" (Marguerite Monnot, Geoffrey Parsons) – 6:35
  5. "On My Own" (Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager) – 5:14
  6. "Sparkle" (Curtis Mayfield) – 1:05
  7. "Got to Be Real" (Cheryl Lynn, David Paich, David Foster) – 3:24 - duet with Mariah Carey
  8. "Lady Marmalade" (Bob Crewe, Kenny Nolan) – 5:08
  9. "Patti Talk" – 3:09
  10. "A Change Is Gonna Come" (Sam Cooke) – 4:04
  11. "Hold On (Change Is Comin')" [4] (Clarke, Reid, Seacer, Steele, Troutman, Roger Troutman) – 4:55 - collaboration with Gerald Levert and Eddie Levert
  12. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 5:12
  13. "I Believe I Can Fly" (R. Kelly) – 2:51

Personnel

Chart performance

Live! One Night Only reached peak positions of number 182 on the Billboard 200 and number 51 on the Top R&B Albums chart. [5]

Legacy

The duet cover of "Got to Be Real" was used as the title and theme song of the parody digital series Got 2B Real , which featured LaBelle and Carey as lead characters.

Accolades

YearNominee / workAwardResult
1999 Live! One Night Only Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance [6] Won

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