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Liza Minnelli's career as a recording artist essentially lapsed after the commercial failure of her 1977 album Tropical Nights, but recording was never one of her real priorities, taking a back seat to her work as a live performer and film star. After early records on which she was positioned as a middle-of-the-road pop singer in the '60s, she made some attempts to perform contemporary, rock-informed material, but her heart wasn't in that, and eventually she contented herself with occasionally updating her stage act on record, notably with 1987's Liza Minnelli at Carnegie Hall. Thus, Results, her first studio album in 12 years, seemed to come out of the blue. And for Minnelli's old-time fans, it was very different from what they might have expected. Simply put, the album was a Pet Shop Boys electronic dance disc with Minnelli serving as vocalist. Pet Shop Boys, the duo of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, were all over the record, writing seven of the songs (including a cover of their hit "Rent"), producing, and contributing synthesizer programming, with Tennant even chiming in on vocals here and there. Although they did place Minnelli in front of an orchestra on "Tonight Is Forever" and give her a jazzy arrangement for "I Can't Say Goodnight" at the end of the disc, for the most part the singer was swamped by the electronically generated beats and sounds. Sometimes, as on "Love Pains," she was even forced to compete with other female voices more accustomed to making themselves heard through such arrangements. Among the more interesting, if odd, tracks was a version of Stephen Sondheim's "Losing My Mind" from the musical Follies, which might have seemed a good song choice for a more conventional Minnelli collection, but that here was made to sound like Laura Branigan's 1982 hit "Gloria." That track, released in advance of the album, hit the Top Ten in the U.K. and made the dance charts in the U.S. The full LP made the U.S. charts, but its greatest success occurred in Great Britain, where it made the Top Ten and threw off three more chart singles. It was, however, a one-off. Pet Shop Boys went back to their career, and Minnelli went back to singing "Cabaret" in theaters around the world. Although she held her own against the arrangements, Results is more a Pet Shop Boys album than a Liza Minnelli disc.
Product Details
Release Date: | 05/19/2017 |
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Label: | Imports |
UPC: | 8718627225158 |
catalogNumber: | 5042990 |
Rank: | 69825 |
Tracks
Album Credits
Performance Credits
Liza Minnelli Primary ArtistCourtney Pine Saxophone
Anne Dudley Conductor
J.J. Belle Guitar
Danny Cummings Percussion
Carol Kenyon Background Vocals
Katie Kissoon Background Vocals
Chris Lowe Keyboards
Julian Mendelsohn Keyboards,Vocals
Tessa Niles Background Vocals
Andy Richards Keyboards
Neil Tennant Keyboards,Vocals,Vocoder
Peter Vitesse Piano,Keyboards
Donald Johnson Rap
C.J. Macintosh scratching
Technical Credits
Stephen Sondheim ComposerTanita Tikaram Composer
Anne Dudley Arranger
Angelo Badalamenti Arranger
Steve Barri Composer
Renny Hill Engineer
Chris Lowe Composer,Programming
Julian Mendelsohn Programming,Producer,Engineer,drum programming
Andy Richards Programming
Neil Tennant Composer
Dan Walsh Composer
Gary Maughan Programming
Mark Farrow Sleeve Design
Paul West Sleeve Design
Michael Price Composer
C.J. Macintosh drum programming
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