| Come Saturday Morning | ||||
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| Released | January 26, 1970 | |||
| Recorded | August 1968, Los Angeles and November 1968, New York City | |||
| Genre | Pop, vocal, traditional | |||
| Length | 32:06 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Producer | Larry Marks | |||
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Come Saturday Morning is the fifth studio album by American singer and actress Liza Minnelli, released in 1969 by A&M Records, her second with the label.[1] In the UK it was released as Introducing Liza Minnelli.
Around 1969, the music industry began to focus on popular songs like rock and artists such as John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Bacharach, affecting artists who had obscure Broadway songs in their repertoire. Her previous album had not achieved commercial success, causing A&M to hesitate in releasing more albums by her.
The 1969 film The Sterile Cuckoo, in which Minnelli played the lead role, and the song "Come Saturday Morning" brought recognition and Oscar nominations. This motivated the record label, which had planned to release another album by the singer with more contemporary sounds.
Musically, it resembles its predecessor, combining popular music genres of the time, such as soft rock. The tracklist includes songs that were popular at that moment, such as "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris, "Didn't We" by Jimmy Webb, the recent hit by Peter, Paul & Mary, "Leavin' on a Jet Plane," and songs by Newman, Gordon Lightfoot, Aretha Franklin, and Harry Nilsson. The rest of the compositions are the same mix of mainly then-current pop/rock and singer/songwriters songs with a couple of Broadway/Vaudevillian songs that made up the previous album.
The critical reception of the music was mostly favorable, but commercially, it performed poorly, becoming her third album not to chart on Billboard magazine's success charts.
Similar to her previous albums released by A&M Records, this album was never issued alone on CD, but all tracks in their original order are included in the 2008 compilation album The Complete A&M Recordings.[2]
The cover photo was used in the 2001 compilation 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best of Liza Minnelli.[3]
- ^ "Diskograpie". Liza May Minnelli - Official German Homepage. Archived from the original on February 12, 2006. Retrieved August 21, 2023.
- ^ "Liza Minnelli - The Complete A&M Recordings Album Reviews, Songs & More". AllMusic. Archived from the original on December 3, 2021. Retrieved August 18, 2023.
- ^ Smith, Kerry L. "Liza Minnelli - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best of Liza Minnelli Album Reviews, Songs & More". AllMusic. Archived from the original on August 23, 2023. Retrieved August 22, 2023.