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SOME DAY....a new album by Liza will be this Great!

08/10/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Of course 'Cabaret' and 'New York, New York' are here.....but why the strange title "16 Biggest Hits." They were certainly all hits with ME, so maybe that's what the title means....Hits with the True Fans who did love her, do love her, will always love her. But not to include 'The World Goes Round,' my all-time favorite Minnelli song? And I was thrilled to see Peter Allen's 'More Than I Like You' ("waiting in the rain.....where the hell's the train?") but why not his haunting 'Harbour' that Liza sang so beautifully on the other side of that original '45? I was glad to see 'Some People,' which Liza has made her own, but the same can be said about 'The Man I Love' and 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out,' neither of them included. And what about 'Maybe This Time' and "Tropical Nights' and 'God Bless the Child' (God bless Billie Holliday for turning that song over to Liza, but it is now HER property, should have been here!) Ah, well, be grateful for what we have.....her rousing 'Old Friend' and 'The Singer,' which I once heard was written about Judy just for Liza to sing. If not a true story....it should be. And now I suppose the words might apply to Liza herself, but my wish, hope, dream is that a new album is released soon.......she won't need compilations to remind people that here is the greatest entertainer of this or any era. Hang in there, Liza......we're right here beside you!!!!"

Great stuff, previously hard to find

Dave Hillman | New York, NY USA | 07/19/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This wouldn't be my ideal Greatest Hits collection for Liza Minnelli, but as it stands, it's a fine representation of her Sony/Columbia recordings. Any Liza CD that includes both "The Singer" and "Losing My Mind"--dark-hued Liza at her most wonderfully intense, circa 1972 and 1989, respectively--is worth having. Additionally, you get great, albeit not definitive, renditions of her signature tunes "New York, New York" and "Cabaret", plus the very rare songs from "Chicago" she recorded as a single back in 1975, "All That Jazz" and "My Own Best Friend." Those two were available on the now out-of-print Sony compilation "Liza", which goes for a pretty penny on eBay nowadays. Disappointingly, Sony has chosen to deprive us once again of anything from Liza's "Tropical Nights" LP, but they have included the classic Winter Garden renditions of "A Quiet Thing" and "Shine On Harvest Moon". Overall, a welcome package with no clunkers whatsoever, and hopefully a successful one that will pave the way to the LONG overdue releases of Sony's "Liza Minnelli Live at the Winter Garden" and "Tropical Nights" on CD. Enough with the compilations: give us the complete original albums!"

The Greatest Entertainer of Our Generation

Bob Waskiewicz | Wintersville, Ohio United States | 10/24/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I wish there were alot more cuts on this collection,like "Exactly Like Me," from "Liza,Live at the Winter Garden."Its a part 2 of Liza's hit, "Liza with a Z," were everyone goes up to Liza and tells her they know someone,or they are the person who looks exactly like her,and I can't understand why"Old Friends" doesn't follow with the fantastic"Live alone and Like it," but for the most part,this set is fantastic.It would be great if everyone showed there support for Liza and made this record a huge hit.Liza's had nothing but health problems this past year,but I know she'll be back better than ever."