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 | Title : Last Concert
Author : Clooney, Rosemary
Release Date : 20021119
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $17.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Her only live concert recording ever! Features her emotional rendition of 'God Bless America', never before recorded by Ms. Clooney & destined to become an American treasure. 14 tracks. Concord Jazz.
Buyer Reviews :
Those who saw Rosemary in concert will recall her warmth, spontaneity with her audience, and total involvement with her music. Fortunately, due to one of those fortuitous happenings, a recording of her final concert was made in Honolulu. The Honolulu Symphony Pops Orchestra, anxious to obtain a recording contract, needed some sample recordings to show how well the orchestra sounded. This recording therefore exists as such and whilst showcasing this talented Orchestra to great advantage, more importantly included the late, great Rosemary in top form at the end of a vacation in Hawaii; a place she had loved since the '50's.Surprisingly enough, her previous 'live' recording had taken place at the London Palladium around fifty years previously, during her early pop-star period, so the fact this new and final recording exists is pure chance, and it provides a magic opportunity to hear Rosemary just one more time.She was promoting her new album, SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY, so with Big Kahuna reprising his studio conducting duties, it was inevitable she would feature selections from it like HAPPINESS IS JUST A THING CALLED JOE, ROCKIN'CHAIR, YOU GO TO MY HEAD and the title song, as well as other standards from the American Song Book - I'M CONFESSIN THAT I LOVE YOU, JUST IN TIME and OL' MAN RIVER. All are flawlessly interpreted, with the icing on the cake being some interlinking sections of dialogue expressing her humour and thoughts about her favourite people - Bing Crosby and Sinatra, with THE SINGER dedicated to Ol' Blue Eyes. Most powerful of all is her GOD BLESS AMERICA, performed just two months after 9/11, and an emotional experience for so many reasons.
Rosemary was a cherished performer and this final recording will help to ensure her great talent will never be forgotten.
(by A.POLLOCK)
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