Maybe This Time | Liza Minnelli | 1966 | Olympia, Paris
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- Опубликовано: 11 янв 2017
- Here is Liza Minnelli's performance of the song "Maybe This Time" during a June 1966 concert at the Olympia in Paris, FR. The music is by John Kander, with lyrics by Fred Ebb.
This video comes from the full concert, uploaded by niceclips2. To view the full show: • Video
Though made famous by Liza in the 1972 film version of Cabaret, the song first started being performed by Liza sometime between 1963 and 1964 in her night-club act. She also recorded the song in June 1964 for her debut album, Liza! Liza!
As confirmed by Fred Ebb in the book Colored Lights, the song was originally written in late 1962 for singer and comedian Kaye Ballard. A regular performer on the Perry Como Show (at that time, known as Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall), she was known primarily as a comedic performer. Because of this, when Kander and Ebb brought the song "My Coloring Book" to the producers for Kaye to sing on the show, they instead gave it to Sandy Stewart. The song soon became a hit for the songwriters. Feeling bad about the switch, the next day Fred offered to write another song for Kaye. In response, Kaye quipped "Yes, maybe next time I'll be lucky!"
In the book How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years: A Memoir, Kaye writes, "A few days later, Fred came to me with the song 'Maybe This Time.' I was delighted with it. It was a beautiful song, and Fred said, 'Kaye, this is your song forever.' I recorded that song on a single for Reprise Records, and I'm sorry to say, it didn't go anywhere. But hey, it was my song."
Kaye goes on to talk about Liza's connection to the song, stating, "Fred broke my heart when he gave 'Maybe This Time' to Liza to record. Adding insult to injury, my arrangement was copied. [...] Like a fool, I went to Liza's opening night at the Plaza. Just before she sang 'Maybe This Time,' she announced, 'This song was written especially for me.' Fred Ebb and I did not speak for years. Even after all this time it hurts to recall this experience. But that's show business."
The two eventually made amends, with Kaye writing in her memoir, "I could not remain angry at someone I truly loved and respected. I remember seeing him across the room at one of the performances of his show The Rink, and that was all it took; we were instantly back together. I forgave Fred right there on the spot."
In Colored Lights, Fred says of Kaye, "She was one of the first people who had credentials to validate me, and she did. She is warm and wise and funny, and I'm crazy for her. In my dictionary, under 'loyal friend,' the definition should be Kaye Ballard." 
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Liza at the beginning of her extraordinary career! She is still a little rough around the edges but in a few short years she will morph into the great performer we all love.
Indeed she has!
Like one year. ruclips.net/video/ViI_oyxIZ5A/видео.html
Still finding herself and her voice. She had definitely broken away from her earlier Streisand affectations, but was in kind of a no-man’s land until the Fosse/Kander/Ebb success.
She got so much better. She basically spoke the song in this performance. ❤ you Liza
I love Liza, she's a great performer
Liza Minnelli, 20 years old
This performance always gives me chills. I love it.
Impresionante, la más potente mujer, voz, y mensaje de la canción...
She got so much better.....
Hermosa interpretación me encanta esa canción solo con ella
Liza I love you!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
She was so jazz in this
Increíble,fantástico,esto fue 7 años antes que Cabaret,esta versión tiene el espíritu de Judy Garland
Love it hadn't heard it spoken. That feeling of hope is definitely there
I was 6 when she did this. Oh how I love her!!!
I wasn’t alive! Timeless is timeless is timeless ☺️
she has been performing all her life.
Gosh! This darling gal was just an Ingénue then. Always delightful ... to this day!
Awesome. Love Liza.
Thanks for the story! It changed completely my view of this song - I was more than sure that it was written for the movie version of Cabaret!
mamma mia...grande intensità....grande attrice
Amazing!
thank you for posting and for the history, I still haven't read Colored Lights, so this was wonderful info to learn.
You can see that she is almost dehydrated... but always fabulous.
Comme elle a appris à doser et maîtriser les effets dramatiques avec le temps. 6 ans plus tard, elle était transformée. Ici tout est surjoué et hystérique : talent en germe.
Picked up so much for her Momma.
Liza in Paris kisssssssssss.
Toda linda! Brasil 11/20
This is actually more raw and naïve, more like the recent interpretation of cabaret in London.. Not better or worse, just different…
Though I do prefer the more polished version in the film and even better her later stage examples ♥️
she is just a kid here
Can you parley Frances? Not me! I 💕 Liza!
so fragile..
true...
Sim! yes! Brasil 11/20
her singing style in here reminds me of Barbra Streisand.
Do you have footage of her at that same concert singing "That's A-Plenty"?
A bit rough, but the character is there
I adore Lisa but she is off key and undisciplined here. A few years later she found her voice and majesty.
Agree. It's fascinating to watch the development of her singing; in just a few short years she won a well-deserved Oscar for the same role, but here she's all over the place vocally and I don't hear a character, as I do when she sings as Sally. A great instructional comparison for singers learning their craft
She didn’t have the wisdom of age and experience to pull off these lyrics !
THIS MUST HAVE BEEN WHEN SHE WAS DOING DRUGS & BOOZE WITH HALSTON AND STAYING AT STUDIO 54 AT ALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT
Oh boy, that performance is not very good. Liza said once that at one point, she had problem with her voice, that she couldn't control it or sing on key. And she went to her godmother (Kay Thompson) for advice and Kay coached her. That performance was probably filmed during that problematic vocal period. Which means that Liza was a hard worker, unlike Barbra who never worked on her voice and yet, had the best instrument ever.
I think you're right. Her 1964 version of this song (see here: ruclips.net/video/bgYM1zbBMiY/видео.html) is a great performance, in which she - almost - scales the heights achieved by her mother. It's an outrageously inappropriate song for an 18 year old to sing, but she had the voice to handle it. Here, she actually stops singing before the climactic notes of the song, suggesting to me that vocally all was not well.