Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall
Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall is a live album by Rufus Wainwright. It was released in 2007.[1] Wainwright performs the songs that Judy Garland performed at her concert at Carnegie Hall in 1961.[1]
Track listing
- Disc 1
- Overture: "The Trolley Song" / "Over the Rainbow" / "The Man That Got Away"
(Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) / (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) / (Arlen, Ira Gershwin) – 4:15 - "When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)" (Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay) – 3:44
- Medley: "Almost Like Being in Love" / "This Can't Be Love"
(Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) / (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 6:10 - "Do It Again" (George Gershwin, Buddy DeSylva) – 5:15
- "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 2:40
- "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 3:21
- "Who Cares? (As Long as You Care for Me)" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:08
- "Puttin' on the Ritz" (Irving Berlin) – 1:56
- "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 5:46
- "Just You, Just Me" (Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages) – 2:03
- "The Man That Got Away" (Arlen, I. Gershwin) – 4:59
- "San Francisco" (Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn, Bronisław Kaper) – 4:53
- Disc 2
- "That's Entertainment!" (Dietz, Schwartz) – 2:27
- "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 8:11
- "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 3:56
- "You're Nearer" (Rodgers, Hart) – 1:58
- "A Foggy Day" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:55
- "If Love Were All" (Noël Coward) – 2:33
- "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" – (J. F. Hanely) – 3:48
- "Stormy Weather" (Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 6:45 (performed by Martha Wainwright)
- Medley: "You Made Me Love You" / "For Me and My Gal" / "The Trolley Song"
(Joseph McCarthy, James V. Monaco, Roger Edens) / (George W. Meyer, Edgar Leslie, E. Ray Goetz) / (Blane, Martin) – 4:37 - "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" (Sam M. Lewis, Fred Schwartz, Joe Young) – 5:45
- "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen, Harburg) – 4:47 (featuring Kate McGarrigle)
- "Swanee" (Irving Caesar, G. Gershwin) – 1:54
- "After You've Gone" (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) – 2:57 (featuring Lorna Luft)
- "Chicago" (Fred Fisher) – 4:30
- Bonus track
Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall Media
The recordings of Judy Garland helped Wainwright to emotionally process the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Marc Jacobs (pictured in 2017) promoted the concerts in his Greenwich Village store and attended a Carnegie Hall performance.
Wainwright, mimicking Judy Garland's appearance in Summer Stock, in 2007
Martha Wainwright performs "Stormy Weather" on the album
Wainwright's mother, Kate McGarrigle, plays accordion on "Over the Rainbow"
Lorna Luft is featured on "After You've Gone"
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Does Judy: Live At Carnegie Hall". musicomh.com. Archived from the original on 3 April 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2011.