The Last Concert (Rosemary Clooney album)


The Last Concert is a live album by Rosemary Clooney, released through Concord Jazz in November 2002. On the album, Clooney is accompanied by Big Kahuna and the Copa Cat Pack, a 12-piece swing band led by musician Matt Catingub. Clooney worked with the band on her final studio recording,.
This was Clooney's first live album, and it was the last in her fifty-five year career as a recording artist.

Reception

The Allmusic review by William Ruhlmann awarded the album three stars and remarking on Clooney's final performance said that "Not surprisingly...there isn't anything about it to suggest finality specifically. But, as an appearance by a veteran performer with a long career to draw upon, it necessarily had a retrospective feel and, occurring only two months after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, it concluded with a reverent tone, Clooney's first recording of 'God Bless America'."

Track listing

  1. Overture: Medley – 4:35
  2. #"Tenderly"
  3. #"White Christmas"
  4. #"Half As Much"
  5. #"Sisters"
  6. #"This Ole House"
  7. "Sentimental Journey" – 4:14
  8. Dialogue – 1:22
  9. "I'm Confessin' " – 3:45
  10. "Just in Time" – 2:58
  11. Dialogue – 0:48
  12. "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" – 4:32
  13. "You Go to My Head" – 4:55
  14. "Rockin' Chair" – 4:08
  15. Dialogue – 0:55
  16. "Ol' Man River" – 2:07
  17. "The Singer" – 2:29
  18. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" – 3:46
  19. "God Bless America" – 4:11