Live! One Night Only

Live! One Night Only
Live album by Patti LaBelle
Released	September 22, 1998
Venue	Hammerstein Ballroom, Manhattan Center, New York City
Length	1:33:33
Label	MCA
Producer	Arif Mardin, Armstead Edwards
Patti LaBelle chronology
Flame (1997) Live! One Night Only (1998) When a Woman Loves (200)

Live! One Night Only is a live album by Patti LaBelle, released in September 1998 through the record label MCA.^[1] The album earned LaBelle the Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. The album was recorded in New York at the Hammerstein Ballroom.

Track listing[]

Disc 1

1. "I Believe" (Drake, Graham, Shirl, Stillman) – 3:55
2. "When You Talk About Love" (Harris, Lewis, Nesby, Wright) – 4:59
3. "Flame" (Antelis, Russell) – 4:28
4. "He Doesn't Love You" – 3:01
5. "New Attitude" (Gilutin, Hull, Robinson) – 2:23
6. "If You Asked Me To" (Warren) – 3:13
7. "If Only You Knew" (Biggs, Gamble, Sigler) – 7:13
8. "You Are My Friend" (Edwards, Ellison, LaBelle) – 5:21
9. "Lord's Side" – 6:12

Disc 2

1. "The Bells" (Gaye, Gaye, Gordy, Stover) – 3:17
2. "Is It Still Good to You" (Ashford, Simpson) – 4:41 - duet with Gerald Levert
3. "Don't Make Me Over" (Bacharach, David) – 3:13
4. "If You Love Me" – 6:35
5. "On My Own" (Bacharach, Sager) – 5:14
6. "Sparkle" – 1:05
7. "Got to Be Real" (Lynn, Paich, Foster) – 3:24 - duet with Mariah Carey.
8. "Lady Marmalade" (Crewe, Nolan) – 5:08
9. "Patti Talk" – 3:09
10. "A Change Is Gonna Come" (Cooke) – 4:04
11. "Hold On (Change Is Comin')"^[2] (Clarke, Reid, Seacer, Steele, Troutman, Troutman) – 4:55 - collaboration with Gerald Levert and Eddie Levert
12. "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen, Harburg) – 5:12
13. "I Believe I Can Fly" (Kelly) – 2:51

Personnel[]

• Patti LaBelle - vocals
• James "Herb" Smith - guitar
• Manuel Yanes - bass guitar
• John Beal - acoustic bass
• Nathaniel Wilkie - keyboards, assistant musical director
• John Stanley - piano, keyboards, backing vocals
• John Blackwell - drums
• José Rossy - percussion
• Emily Mitchell - harp
• Gary Topper - tenor saxophone
• Harvey Estrin - alto saxophone
• Roger Rosenberg - baritone saxophone
• George Flynn - bass trombone
• Hollis Burridge, Lew Soloff - trumpet
• Jim Pugh, Larry Farrell - trombone
• Bob Carlisle - French horn
• Jeanne Leblanc, Mark Shuman - cello
• Abe Appleman, Ann Leathers, Charles Libove, Eric Wyrick, Jean Ingraham, Joel Pitchon, Richard Rood, Robert Chausow - violin
• Carol Landon, Karen Dreyfus, Mary Hammann - viola
• James Budd Ellison - musical director, conductor, arrangements
• Jack Faith, Richard Di Cicco - string arrangements
• Emil Charlap - conductor

Chart performance[]

Live! One Night Only reached peak positions of number 182 on the Billboard 200 and number 51 on the Top R&B Albums chart.^[3]

Legacy[]

The duet cover of "Got to Be Real" was used as the title and theme song of the parody digital series Got 2B Real, which featured LaBelle and Carey as lead characters.

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