The Main Event – Live

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The Main Event - Live
The Main Event - Live cover
Live album by Frank Sinatra
Released 1974
Recorded October 1974
New York City
Genre Classic pop
Length 40:58
Label Reprise Records
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The Main Event – Live is a 1974 (see 1974 in music) live album and television special by Frank Sinatra.

Sinatra embarked on a six-concert tour in 1974, working with Woody Herman & the Young Thundering Herd, which was conducted by Bill Miller, Sinatra's longtime pianist.

Dubbed "The Main Event", the tour culminated with a televised concert from Madison Square Garden on October 13, 1974. Sinatra is modestly introduced by Howard Cosell, who describes him as "the most enduring champion of them all - coming live to the entire Western hemisphere."

Subtitled "Live From Madison Square Garden", this album isn't an exact document of the concert. Instead, it's a compilation taken from various shows on "The Main Event" tour; on two songs, "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "Let Me Try Again", two performances are spliced together.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Overture: "It Was a Very Good Year"/"All the Way"/"My Kind of Town" (Ervin Drake)/(Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen)/(Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:00 (introduction by Howard Cosell)
  2. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:45
  3. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) – 4:00
  4. "Let Me Try Again" ("Laisse Moi le Temps") (Paul Anka, Cahn, Michel Jourdon) – 3:10
  5. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 2:35
  6. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) – 4:25
  7. "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" (Jim Croce) – 2:34
  8. "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) – 3:38
  9. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Stevie Wonder) – 2:40
  10. "The House I Live In" (Lewis Allan, Earl Robinson) – 4:42
  11. "My Kind of Town" – 2:32
  12. "My Way" (Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibault) – 4:57

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