Hit the jump for much more on this classic LP, including the complete track listing and links to order and hear samples! Columbia released the album in April when the shows were still fresh in fans' minds, but the original LP was soon withdrawn due to legal wrangling with the rights holders to the Cabaret soundtrack, unhappy that Minnelli's famous songs from the film were now available on a competing release. It boasted special material by longtime friends John Kander and Fred Ebb ( Cabaret, Chicago) and musical coordination by another Academy Award winner, Marvin Hamlisch. Columbia Records, to which Minnelli had recently been signed, was on hand to record the event. ![]() The concert itself, directed and co-choreographed by Fosse, was simply entitled Liza, and there was no doubt of the surname. Liza Minnelli, just 27 years old and already a superstar, took the stage at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre (today the home of Mamma Mia!) on Janufor a series of 24 sold-out concerts, setting a house record at the venerable theatre. So it was probably inevitable that Minnelli and Fosse would reteam in their natural habitat: onstage. In 1974, the multi-hyphenate talent was riding high, having taken home a Best Actress Academy Award for her incendiary performance as Sally Bowles in Bob Fosse's film version of Cabaret, as well as an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Program - Variety and Popular Music for Liza with a "Z," also helmed by the visionary Fosse. Masterworks Broadway will, on April 3, give the deluxe treatment to one of the few milestones in Minnelli's career not previously revisited: Live at the Winter Garden. Minnelli is still touring, recording and doing what she does best: entertaining, whether on the big screen ( Sex and the City 2), the small screen ( Arrested Development) or onstage. But the daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, who made her first onscreen appearance as a baby in 1949's MGM extravaganza In the Good Old Summertime, has never been one to rest on her considerable laurels. Heart, Chris Cornell, Caroline Henderson and many more.Liza Minnelli turns 66 today, and could rightfully relax, look back and celebrate over six decades in show business. Other fine versions to find on the web are by: Warren Zevon – Ring Them Bells (The Bluebird, Denver CO, on October 13, 1996, audio): Mary Black and Joan Baez – Ring Them Bells:Īnd finally a rare Warren Zevon interpretation of one of Bob Dylan’s songs. Joan Baez also has a live albums with the title Ring Them Bells named after this song. The source of this clip is Kenny Live – Mary Black Special (1995). Let us show you two more great finds, first, this is the twenty-first track of the “Twenty-five Years – Twenty-five Songs” DVD by Mary Black called “Ring Them Bells”. Catherine From the top of the room Ring them from the fortress For the lilies that bloom Oh the lines are long And the fighting is strong And they’re breaking down the distance Between right and wrong Ring them bells for the blind and the deaf Ring them bells for all of us who are left Ring them bells for the chosen few Who will judge the many when the game is through Ring them bells, for the time that flies For the child that cries When innocence dies Ring them bells Sweet Martha For the poor man’s son Ring them bells so the world will know That God is one Oh the shepherd is asleep Where the willows weep And the mountains are filled With lost sheep Ron Sexsmith sings Ring Them Bells with Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Neko Case and Jesse Winchester on the Elvis Costello TV showSpectacle: Let us continue with a true collaborative effort. Peter Where the four winds blow Ring them bells with an iron hand So the people will know Oh it’s rush hour now On the wheel and the plow And the sun is going down Upon the sacred cow Ring them bells, ye heathen From the city that dreams Ring them bells from the sanctuaries ’Cross the valleys and streams For they’re deep and they’re wide And the world’s on its side And time is running backwards And so is the bride Sufjan Stevens – Ring Them Bells (audio): ![]() My second choice is quite different but equally good. It is taken from Jarosz’s 2011 album, Follow Me Downavailable on Sugar Hill Records. Let us start with Sarah Jarosz’s acoustic performance of Ring Them Bells for Vanguard and Sugar Hill Record’s The Americana Sessions recorded and taped at Minutia Studios in Nashville, TN. I have picked a few that I like especially good. I can understand why so many artists have made their own interpretations of the song. The Melody sounds sombre but uplifting in its own dignified way. The lyrics of the Dylan’s song Ring Them Bells are dark, to me, they are much darker than the melody reveals. Photo: Taken from a bootleg of Oh Mercy outtakes
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