Sunday Morning with Liza Minnelli

Seems almost too perfect to bring Liza Minnelli out on this Sunday morning to sing A Quiet Thing, a song first made famous by the superstar herself on the broadway stage when she had her first starring role in Flora The Red Menace. Here, she duets with Kermit The Frog on The Muppett Show.



Although it first appeared on the musical charts in 1930, You Brought A New Kind of Love To Me, written by Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, and Pierre Norman, was a sweet part of the film New York, New York, starring Liza and Robert De Niro. The film, a musical directed by Martin Scorsese, was a bit darker than most movie musicals ever tried to be...



Here is Liza from a recent performance on The Graham Norton Show. She sings I Must Have That Man, a song once sung by Billie Holiday.



I do have some mad, crazy love for Liza with a "Z." For more on Liza Minnelli, check out the official website here. You can check out her touring schedule, although she is currently touring Europe.

Worth Another Listen - Godley & Creme

Kevin Godley and Lol Creme first met in the late 50s, working in the music industry. But the British boys didn't really start working together until 1969, working in a band that eventually morphed into the band 10cc. That group was together from 1972 until 1983, when the band retired. Only Kevin and Lol didn't make it all the way, stepping on their own in 1977. Their early music was not received well by the critics nor fans. But their third album, Freeze Frame, saw their first success, while not in the US, in Europe. The song was An Englishman In New York, their own song, different from the Sting song of the same name.



Ths next album, Ismism, showed strong on the charts in the UK, placing #4 on the album chart, and the song Under Your Thumb taking the #3 spot on the singles chart.




But their greatest success was yet to come, at least for a few years. In 1985 they released The History Mix Volume 1, a compilation of remixed versions of songs from earlier albums, and the first to make headway in the US market. The album went to #37 on the Billboard chart, lead by an original song with a groundbreaking video. Cry had a look and feel of no other video before it, and was thought to be on the cutting edge of technology. A true sign of this was the fact it was quickly followed by other videos and television commercials that imitated the treatment. The song went to #16 on the US chart, their first entry in tat elusive club.



By 1987, after decades of being together, Kevin and Lol went their separate ways, with Lol staying in music, and Kevin continuing directing music videos, while keeping his hand in music as well.