| Eddie Fisher at the Winter Garden | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | 1963 | |||
| Venue | Winter Garden | |||
| Genre | Vocal, Traditional Pop | |||
| Length | 1:08:30 | |||
| Label | Ramrod | |||
| Eddie Fisher chronology | ||||
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Eddie Fisher at the Winter Garden is a live album by American singer Eddie Fisher, released in 1963.[1]
Background
[edit]After a long break from live performance, Eddie Fisher returned to the stage in May 1962. The first released document of his show was At the Winter Garden, recorded in October of that year.[2] It was his only live album. It was released under his own Ramrod label, which he made after RCA Victor dropped him due to his waning popularity in the late 1950s.
Overview
[edit]The live album includes 19 tracks, such as his minor 1961 hit "Tonight", from West Side Story, and Al Jolson songs like "Sonny Boy" and Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody, both of which were included in his 1968 tribute album to the singer. The album is unusually long, being over an hour long. It was his first album in three years, and was a live one. It peaked at No. 126 on Billboard Top LPs, and stayed on the chart for three weeks.[3]
Reissue
[edit]The album was reissued on CD in 1999 by Taragon Records.[4]
Reception
[edit]| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [5] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [6] |
John Bush on AllMusic says "Fisher's voice is solid as he tackles a varied repertoire including old-guard standards as well as contemporary material. The remastering is only fair, there's some hiss low in the mix, but fans will delight at the hour's worth of prime Eddie Fisher.[5]
Billboard says "This one's bound to click with Fisher's fans, and with matrons who look upon Fisher as My Son, the Pop Singer. It's a live recording made last fall at New York's Winter Garden containing virtually everything in the two record-set from Jolson's songs to Fisher oldies like "Anytime".[7]
Charts
[edit]| Chart (1963) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Billboard Top LPs | 126 |
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Overture" | 2:39 |
| 2. | "Don't Let It Get You Down" | 2:10 |
| 3. | ""Back in Your Own Backyard"" | 2:05 |
| 4. | "Tonight / Maria / Something's Coming" (from West Side Story) | 5:23 |
| 5. | "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)" | 2:06 |
| 6. | "Never on Sunday" | 3:43 |
| 7. | "This Nearly Was Mine" (from South Pacific) | 2:08 |
| 8. | "Mack the Knife" | 3:50 |
| 9. | "Hava Nagila" | 4:54 |
| 10. | "Moon River" (from Breakfast at Tiffany's) | 2:12 |
| 11. | "Swanee / A Quarter to Nine / Liza / Sitting on Top of the World / Toot Toot Tootsie" | 4:31 |
| 12. | "April Showers / Robert E. Lee" | 1:48 |
| 13. | "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" | 3:40 |
| 14. | "Sonny Boy" | 3:54 |
| 15. | "Makin' Whoopee" | 2:33 |
| 16. | "Anytime / I Need You Now / Wish You Were Here / Heart / Oh! My Papa" | 7:51 |
| 17. | "What Kind of Fool Am I?" | 3:35 |
| 18. | "Belz (That Wonderful Girl of Mine)" | 4:05 |
| 19. | "The Sweetest Sounds" (Richard Rodgers) | 5:23 |
References
[edit]- ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 2004-IA38. ISBN 9780857125958. Archived from the original on 2024-07-01. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
- ^ "Eddie Fisher at the Winter Garden – Eddie Fisher". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 2024-07-01. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Top LPs, 1955–1996. Record Research. p. 52. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
- ^ "Eddie Fisher – Eddie Fisher at the Winter Garden (1999, CD, Reissue)". Discogs. 1999. Archived from the original on 2024-07-01. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
- ^ a b Bush, John. "Eddie Fisher - Eddie Fisher at the Winter Garden: Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2025-05-04.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 534. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 3 May 2025.
- ^ "Album Reviews". Billboard. 1963-05-25. p. 33. Archived from the original on 2024-07-01. Retrieved 2025-07-10.