Sunday Night LIVE! [Live]

Track Listings
1. Let's Lift Jesus 4:26    
2. Intro 0:39    
3. God Will Bring You Out 3:25    
4. Reprise 1:49    
5. Hold On! (Hold To God's Unchanging Hand) 6:18    
6. It Wasn't the Nails 6:07    
7. I Praise Your Name 3:54    
8. The Lord's Prayer 5:12    
9. You're in the Right Place 7:32    
10. Keep On Believing 6:38    
11. God's Got It 5:22    
12. You Were There 7:30    
13. We Shall Behold Him 4:55    
14. Shout 1:26    

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Everyone in Oakland, CA knows about Sunday Night Live ! at the Olivet Institutional Missionary Baptist Church. The brainchild of pioneering pastor Rev. Gordon A. Humphrey, Jr., Sunday Night Live! is the Olivet Church's unique, come-dressed-as-you-are, anything-can- happen, the-place-to-be, mega-exciting Sunday night sewrvice - from 7:00 p.m. 'til ?

One of Sunday Night Live's prime features has always been the powerful, annointed music led by the dynamic team of director Jeffrey Williams and organist/composer Greg Hunter leading the famed Olivet / Oakland Choir, musicians and soloist. Nationally renowned Aleho Records artist Minister Yvette Flunder was the special soloist and m.c.

Oakland, CA has been traditionally one of the "hottest" cities in America for Gospel music, producing a host of great artists, musicians and songwriters including all the Hawkins family - Walter, Edwin, Tramain and the others.

Sunday Night Live! is a powerful recording of a powerful experience. The choir is stunning, The songs are memorable representing the best of the San Francisco Bay Area's songwriters. The style ranges from classical "heroic" to "get down" church.

It's all here. The excitement. The freedom. The passion. This is Sunday Night Live! at it's best.

Contributors:
Producers / Minister Gregory "Bishop" Hunter

Minister Jeffery "Hymnbook" Williams
Executive Producers
Pastor Gordon Humphrey, Jr., Bob MacKenzie

Special guest soloist and m.c., Minister Yvette Flunder, appears courtesy Aleho Records Roland RD1000/Piano/Organ: Minister Gregory "Bishop" Hunter, Derrick Hall
Guitar: Ron Lynch
Bass: Calvin Brown
Drums: Robert "Bam-Bam" Anderson
Percussion: Abel Garcia
Electric Piano, Strings, Horns by Derrick Hall
Live recording and overdubs at Union City Apostolic Church/Dove Studio, Union City CA
Engineers Bob Skye and Aaron Lopez
Mixed at Dove Studio by Dave Luc
Mastered by Michael Romanowski at Rocket Lab, San

Francisco
Minister Yvette Flunder appears courtesy Aleho Records

Album Description
On September 30, 1995, there was a shaking in the heavenlies, and the Bay Area experienced one of the greatest moves of God! The angels around God's throne stopped singing, the four and twenty elders took notice. The Lamb of God Himself, journeyed to Union City, CA to be honored at the "SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE" Worship Service of The Olivet Institutional Baptist Church (Oakland, CA) led by Pastor Gordon Humphrey, Jr. and the famed OLIVET / OAKLAND choir. We trust and pray that you will experience the same anointing that went forth that grand and glorious evening!

Sunday Night LIVE!, Music, Olivet-Oakland Choir
Sondheim - A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992 Concert Cast)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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  • Simply the Best
  • Inconsistent, but mostly excellent
  • "Celebration" is not strong enough a word
  • A maginificent evening, a magnificent album
Sondheim - A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992 Concert Cast)
Stephen Sondheim , Betty Buckley , Paul Gemignani , Patti LuPone , Liza Minnelli , and Bernadette Peters
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ASIN: B000003FDW
Release Date: 1993-02-23

Tracks:

  1. Symphonic Sondheim: Sweeney Todd--orchestra, Jerry Hadley ("Johanna"), Eugene Perry,Herbert Perry ("Pretty Women")
  2. Evening Introduction--Bill Irwin
  3. Loveland/Getting Married Today--Ensemble, Jeanne Lehman, Mark Jacoby, Madeline Kahn
  4. Waiting for the Girls Upstairs--George Lee Andrews, Michael Jeter, James Naughton/Love, I Hear--Michael Jeter/Live Alone and Like It--James Naughton
  5. Someone Is Waiting--Richard Muenz/Symphonic Sondheim: Barcelona--orchestra
  6. Being Alive--Patti LuPone
  7. Good Thing Going--The Tonics
  8. Losing My Mind/You Could Drive a Person Crazy--Dorothy Loudon
  9. Our Time--Boys Choir of Harlem/Children Will Listen--Betty Buckley
  10. Anyone Can Whistle--Billy Stritch
  11. Water Under the Bridge--Liza Minnellli, Billy Stritch
  12. Back in Business--Liza Minnellli, Billy Stritch, Ensemble

Tracks:

  1. Symphonic Sondheim: Comedy Tonight--Bill Irwin, orchestra
  2. Sooner or Later--Karen Ziemba
  3. Pretty Lady--Mark Jacoby, Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry
  4. Green Finch and Linnet Bird--Harolyn Blackwell
  5. The Ballad of Booth--Patrick Cassidy, Victor Garber
  6. Broadway Baby--Daisy Eagan
  7. I Never Do Anything Twice--BETTY
  8. With So Little to Be Sure Of--Jerry Hadley, Carolann Page
  9. Not a Day Goes By--Bernadette Peters
  10. Remember?--Ron Baker, Peter Blanchet, Carol Meyer, Bronwyn Thomas, Blythe Walker (Quintet)/A Weekend in the Country--Kevin Anderson, George Lee Andrews, Mark Jacoby, Beverly Lambert, Maureen Moore, Susan Terry, Quintet
  11. Send in the Clowns--Glenn Close
  12. Old Friends--Liza Minnelli
  13. Sunday--Bernadette Peters, Broadway Chorus

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Great CD.......2006-08-06

This is a wonderful double CD of fabulous musical numbers performed by theatre greats and directed by a legandary musical director.

5 out of 5 stars Simply the Best.......2005-06-29

First, to the person who criticizes the recording b/c of "Broadway Baby." Daisy Egan (who sings in in this recording) sounds like she's 10 becuase she IS young. She had just appeared on Braodway in Secret Garden and won a Tony for it. It's a joke...Broadway BABY...hello, it's a joke.

In a compilation of songs like this you're always going to have tracks that you prefer over others, but the majority of the renditions in this CD are great. This is simply one of the best collections of Sondheim out there. You get interpretations that span from "classical" (Green Finch), to bordering on insane (Anything Twice). This is to demonstrate how versatile this composer really is.

In my opinion, some of the best renditions are "Not a Day Goes By," "Anyone Can Whistle", "Girls Upstairs Medley," "Losing My Mind/Drive a Person Crazy," and "Weekend inthe Country." Makes me wish I had been there to witness it first hand.

If you love Sondheim and enjoy hearing Broadway performers, get this CD. A great recording.

4 out of 5 stars Inconsistent, but mostly excellent.......2004-03-21

I am sure no knowledgeable person would deny how absolutely perfect all these songs are. However, the performances on this album are extremely inconsistent. It will go from an excellent rendition (Waiting for the Girls medley, Sunday, With So Little To Be Sure Of, Sooner or Later, Green Finch, Send in the Clowns, Pretty Lady) to the weird (I never Do Anything Twice), to the bad (Broadway Baby, Our Time). I still have absolutely no idea how they managed to butcher one of the best songs ever written--Good Thing Going--and turn it into smooth jazz elevator music. Why would they give Broadway Baby to someone who sounds like she's 10? That said, Liza Minelli, Glenn Close, Karen Ziemba, Dorothy Laudon and the "Waiting for the Girls" performers are all very good. And ending with Bernadette Peters and "Sunday" ends the set on a absolutley fabulous note.

5 out of 5 stars "Celebration" is not strong enough a word.......2003-04-30

This review is by Crosley.

I have been a major Sondheim fan for quite some time, and I finally obtained a copy of this album. I was blown away by the excellent cast and phenomenal selection of music. It is obvious how much work went into this production, considering that this is the live recording of a one time show, and it's flawless. The songs cover all of his shows with the exception of "Passion," which was released 3 years after this show. Also, the shows for which he wrote only lyrics are ommited, like West Side Story, Gypsy, etc. Thus, you can find material from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone can Whistle, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Merrily we Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins.

There are two striking things about this CD (besides the music and performers themselves). First of all, some of the songs are completely stylistically reworked. The most obvious are "Good Thing Going" and "I Never do Anything Twice." Both are traditionally very ballady with a piano accompaniment, but here they have been redone as jazzy tunes. The result is excellent. Such reworkings demonstrate that Sondheim writes music for virtually any style, and in these cases, across several styles. It's a great example of his variety. The other interesting thing is how many songs have overlapping melodies of songs from different shows. Case in point, "Our Time" and "No one is Alone" are sung seperately by the Harlem Boys Choir and Betty Buckley (the original Grizabella in Webber's atrocious "CATS," although Buckley was excellent) respectively, and then combined. Putting these two songs together offer different meanings to each, and the music is only enhanced. Another example, the trio of "Waiting for the Girls Upstairs," "Love, I Hear," and "Live Alone and Like It" are sung in that order, and then the latter two are combined. Again, the meanings of the songs change, this time in an almost narrative style, and offering different takes on love in the same montage. Lastly (at least for this review, there are more), Dorothy Laudon's (the original Ms. Hannigan in Annie) combination of "Losing my Mind" and "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" is brilliant. Those who are familiar with these songs will wonder how exactly they fit, but trust me, they do. She swtiches back and forth between melodies to create a number that starts poignant and beautiful, and soon moves to become uproariously funny. Both the song reworkings and overlapping melodies of unrelated songs are all for the better.

I recommend this recording to anyone wanting to get better acquainted with some of Sondheim's best work, or those already familiar who want to hear a tour de force of phenomenal music. It has been said that Sondheim is a masterful lyricist (which he is), but lacks real talent for music. This CD is the final proof that such critics are wrong. His music may take a few listenings to get into, contrary to Webber or Wildhorn, but unlike those two, he doesn't cater to the audience. He challenges them to think outside of traditional musical theater in a glorious repertoise of shows that reach for a smarter, more sophisticated form.

5 out of 5 stars A maginificent evening, a magnificent album.......2001-12-16

There's something to be said for the first concert you ever see at Carnegie Hall. I was fortunate enough to have this be my first. This entire evening was devoted to his genius and the performers did not disappoint.

This wonderful double CD shows off the best and brightest of the musical theatre composer and it is, as one person put it, "an embarassment of riches." With songs from his finest works done in amazing arrangements (listen to that harmony in "We Had a Good Thing Going"!) combined with fabulous performers this is a Sondheim lovers delight.

My favorite song is, without a doubt, Dorothy Louden and her wonderful medley of "Losing My Mind" into "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" followed very closely by the recently departed Madeline Kahn singing "Getting Married Today."
Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (Live at Carnegie Hall 2001)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Wow!
  • Everyone Should Whistle
  • An amazing intro to the body of work of a true master
  • Beautiful, moving concert
  • ... and I love Barbara Cook
Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (Live at Carnegie Hall 2001)

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ASIN: B000059LFF
Release Date: 2001-05-08

Tracks:

  1. Everybody Says Don't
  2. I Wonder What Became of Me?
  3. The Eagle and Me
  4. I Had Myself a True Love
  5. Into the Woods / Giants in the Sky (Malcolm Gets)
  6. Another Hundred People / So Many People (Malcolm Gets)
  7. Let's Face the Music and Dance / The Song Is You (duet with Malcolm Gets)
  8. Happiness
  9. Loving You
  10. You Could Drive a Person Crazy
  11. Not A Day Goes By / Losing My Mind

Tracks:

  1. Buds Won't Bud
  2. I Got Lost in His Arms
  3. West Side Story Segment: Something's Coming / Tonight (Malcolm Gets)
  4. Move On (duet with Malcolm Gets)
  5. Medley: Hard Hearted Hannah / Waiting for the Robert E. Lee / San Francisco
  6. Ice Cream
  7. Send in the Clowns
  8. The Trolley Song
  9. Not While I'm Around (duet with Malcolm Gets)
  10. Anyone Can Whistle

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

Barbara Cook is one of today's most accomplished song stylists, and if you don't believe us, just listen to this live album. It's a master class in the art of singing. It documents an evening at Carnegie Hall during which Cook proved that she can dissect and extract the substance out of the simplest of lyrics. One of the best surprises is "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" (from Company), which is taken at an amiable trot and allows the singer to display its humor. Cook is not a swinging singer and uptempo is not her pace; give her a ballad, though, and she'll wring the last drop of emotion out of it. Her version of "Losing My Mind" (here paired with "Not a Day Goes By") is simply astonishing. The singer also performs songs that Sondheim has said he wished he had written, an awful lot of them by Harold Arlen. No complaints here. Guest Malcolm Gets solos on a few songs and duets with Cook on others, including "Let's Face the Music and Dance." This is classic material done masterfully by a classic singer. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Wow!.......2004-02-20

Having read the other reviews there is little more for me to add. I have been a Barbara Cook fan for a longtime and for me, this is one of her best concerts ever. I do, however, prefer the DVD. As with some other reviewers, I do not want to hear Malcolm Gets (as much as I like him) when I want to listen to Barbara. Her flawless interpretation of music is a hard act to follow for any singer! I managed to see this concert 4 times over a year and a half. Each time I saw her the voice was stronger and more assured (I would not have thought that possible). I can't help but think we will have the pleasure of hearing Ms Cook for many years to come. For those people who enjoyed his CD I strongly recommend purchasing the DVD. Barabara's rendition of So Many People is breathtaking (literally, I don't think I breathed once during the entire song). If you ever have opportunity to see her live - go! She has an ability to make you feel as if every song she sings and every word she speaks is directed to you alone. She can take a large venue and make it feel as intimate as your own living room. Having had the pleasure of meeting her I can say she is as youthful and pleasurable in person as she is in her performance.

5 out of 5 stars Everyone Should Whistle.......2003-10-11

After being privileged to attend this concert, I had to own the CD. Once a lyric coloratura and the original Cunegonde in Bernstein's Candide, Ms. Cook has become (in her 70s) a true diva, blessed with a velvety, warm sound. Every note has meaning. Her high B-flat on "Ice Cream" is still the envy of any soprano today. Everyone should whistle after hearing the superb performances on this CD. Even better, though, is the experience of having been in the concert hall for the live performance. Brava, Ms. Cook!

5 out of 5 stars An amazing intro to the body of work of a true master.......2003-06-16

When I first bought tickets for the 'Mostly Sondheim' show on tour (in San Francisco) I figured it couldn't be too bad. Besides, I had only been exposed to a few of his songs (Anyone Can Whistle, Losing My Mind...) and had only seen "A Little Night Music". On the way out of the theater I immediately picked up this recording of the program. It is truly amazing. I immediately began listening to it and have barely put it down in the last few months. Furthermore, my Sondheim CD collection increased in size from an unflattering zero to five (and it's still growing)! This is an amazing introduction to the works of Stephen Sondheim, who is now my favorite modern musical composer). Buy this now if you don't already have it!

4 out of 5 stars Beautiful, moving concert.......2003-04-13

This is a wonderful CD set with a great selection of songs. I do want to express a slight reservation, however. Barbara Cook has been one of my favorite singers for a number of years and the way her voice defies time is extraordinary -- for her to be singing with such bright, beautiful tone in her mid-70s with no wobble or beat in the voice is an amazing achievment.

I do have to say that by 2001, when this concert was recorded, Cook seemed to have a lost a little bit of power and intensity in her singing. This is only natural for someone of her age. Her voice is still lovely, but you can sense her keeping it in reserve a bit. She's as expressive as ever, but compare the rendition of "I got lost in his arms" on this album to the one on her previous album recorded in 1999, "The Champion Season", and there's less urgency and vocal depth in her singing here. That said, the high B at the end of "Ice Cream" is sensational.

So, despite that caveat, this is, again, a wonderful album, a must for Cook fans, especially for the gorgeous renditions of songs I'd never thought I'd get to hear her perform: "Not a Day Goes By", "Happiness/Loving You", "San Francisco", etc. Buy it!

1 out of 5 stars ... and I love Barbara Cook.......2003-02-11

This recording is a disappointment for me. It is not her best work, and Malcolm Gets is uninspired. My biggest complaint however is the engineering of the recording. Throughout the speaking was to soft, the singing volumes uneven, and the applause deafening. I will be passing this CD on to friends, and will later donate it to my local library.
Sings Sondheim
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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  • Also a very dissapointed fan
  • Adequate performance; poor entertainment
  • a very disappointed fan
  • What a train wreck!
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Mandy Patinkin
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ASIN: B00006JP2C
Release Date: 2002-10-29

Tracks:

  1. Opening
  2. Lesson #8
  3. Another Hundred People
  4. When?
  5. Someone Is Waiting
  6. Johanna
  7. Green Finch and Linnet Bird
  8. Pretty Women
  9. Finishing the Hat
  10. If You Can Find Me, I'm Here
  11. Live, Laugh, Love
  12. Live Alone and Like It
  13. Everybody Says Don't
  14. Rich and Happy, Part 1
  15. Our Time
  16. Broadway Baby
  17. Rich and Happy, Part 2
  18. Uptown, Downtown
  19. Liaisons
  20. Send in the Clowns
  21. Live, Laugh, Love (reprise)
  22. You Could Drive a Person Crazy

Tracks:

  1. Free
  2. Company
  3. Waiting For The Girls Upstairs
  4. Pleasant Little Kingdom/Too Many Mornings
  5. Not While I'm Around
  6. All Things Bright and Beautiful
  7. It Takes Two
  8. In Someone's Eyes
  9. Beautiful
  10. Losing My Mind
  11. Take the Moment
  12. Sunday

Amazon.com

Recorded live at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia, this double CD is one heck of an extensive tribute to Stephen Sondheim. Backed only by Paul Ford on piano, Mandy Patinkin gets through nearly three dozen songs penned by the Broadway master. Some are obvious (excerpts from Sunday in the Park with George, in which the singer created the title role), others less so ("If You Can Find Me I'm Here" from Evening Primrose). Patinkin is often mocked for his shivering falsetto, but here, it's actually when his voice explores a lower register that it falters. What's more interesting is when he tackles songs usually sung by women, such as Follies' "Broadway Baby" and Company's "Another Hundred People" and "You Could Drive a Person Crazy"--the latter hammed up so much that you can hear the chewing of the scenery. A distinctively mannered interpreter, Patinkin remains an acquired taste, but fans of his will be in heaven with this set. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Sondheim recital.......2007-01-22

Probably the best way to approach these disks is to treat them like a recital in a concert hall. Rather as you would listen to a Schubert or Schumann song cycle. Taken together this way, we come to hear Sondheim as one of our finest composers, serious, comic, manic, depressive, always dead on target no matter what the subject matter. And Patinkin is perfect for these songs; he understands the meaning and value of every note and every word, just as a fine concert singer would do, and he makes his listeners understand, too. One of the most intriguing concept albums in recent memory, and a joy all the way through. Bob Finley, Palm Springs, CA.

2 out of 5 stars Also a very dissapointed fan.......2003-08-22

I too LOVE Mandy and Stephen Sondheim and own just about everything both has ever made! I also have been to 6 of Mandy's live performances. This was truly a big dissapointment to me. Every concert I have seen Mandy in has been filled with emotion and his personality just grabs hold of you for an evening of wonderful escape-ism. This to me was very un-entertaining and I actually became irritated after awhile of listening to it. It seemed to drone on with out the wonderful feelings and emotions and soaring voice that Mandy typically puts into his music. I gave this as a gift too (since my friend and I had missed Mandy at his Sondheim review in DC last year) and felt badly that I had. There are so many other great recordings of Mandy...Kidults, Saturday in the Park with George, The Secret Garden, Mandy sings Rogers & Hammerstien and Sondheim. This one has just sat on my shelf after I played it through twice hoping to warm up to it...while my other recordings are very worn out with years of playing!

2 out of 5 stars Adequate performance; poor entertainment.......2003-05-04

I received this disc the same day a "Philip Quast Live at the Donmar". The Quast disc has its own flaws (and I dont wish to compare the two performers) but it has been strung together in a more thoughtful manner, with witty imagination and using a more dangerous in the choice of songs, which is really where this disc fails. The songs here are generally enjoyable though rather standard, and the lack of cohesion (running the songs together doesnt count) means I just dip into the discs listening to a few favourites, rather than enjoying the whole show.

2 out of 5 stars a very disappointed fan.......2003-02-05

I have every recording Patinkin appears on, even if he's only on one track; I adore his voice, his flair, his emotion, his ability to deliver a song.

But (much of) this recording is disappointing, mainly because Mr. Patinkin's voice in the lower range sounds muddled and forced, as though he's lost ability to control it (however, the more falsetto sounds are as clear and sharp as ever).

And I don't care for the format of this performance. Live recordings should have live audience reactions: one (often unrelated) song after another without applause had me wondering when--if ever--was the audience was going to be allowed to react.

Also, while I've never had the privilege of attending a Patinkin concert, I imagined that--above all-- he would be passionate. Perhaps he was. But what (mostly) comes across on the CD is a somber--almost technical--performance.

I hope he's healthy, that mixed quality of singing on this recording was just a fluke, and that his next CD will be a Five-star as all his previous ones have been

2 out of 5 stars What a train wreck!.......2003-01-15

Hate to join the chorus of neigh-sayers, but jeeeez! I have to agree that with the exception of a few cuts (such as "Hyphenated Harriet") Mandy is a vocal bull in a china shop -- what he doesn't shatter he ... on. What should have been a tribute (I love Sondheim, but do we need ANOTHER anthology recording of oft sung songs?)is more like a wake. Mandy seems intent on becoming the male Ethel Merman -- if you can't hold the note, belt it out with a misplaced vabrato and maybe no one will notice. I REALLY wanted to like this recording, but is truly horrible. If the pipes are gone, Mandy, I hope you get back to acting.
Sondheim - A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Highlights from the 1992 Concert Cast)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • What a recording!
Sondheim - A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Highlights from the 1992 Concert Cast)

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ASIN: B000003FEM
Release Date: 1993-02-23

Tracks:

  1. Symphonic Sondheim: Sweeney Todd
  2. Company: Loveland - Getting Married Today
  3. Follies: Waiting For The Girls Upstairs - Love, I Hear - Live Alone And Like It
  4. Company: Being Alive
  5. Merrily We Roll Along: Good Thing Going
  6. Merrily We Roll Along: Our Time - Children Will Listen
  7. Dick Tracy: Back In Business
  8. Sweeny Todd: Green Finch And Linnet Bird
  9. Follies: Broadway Baby
  10. Merrily We Roll Along: Not A Day Goes By
  11. A Little Night Music: A Weekend In The Country
  12. A Little Night Music: Send In The Clowns
  13. Sunday In The Park With George: Sunday

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars What a recording!.......2000-06-29

I only wich I could have been at Carnegie Hall that night! Come on, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minnelli, Karen Ziemba, James Naughton, and so much more! After i bought this highlights album I knew I had to get the full 2-CD set. It's great cause it's live, the orchestrations are Heaven, and you will feel like your in new york in the audience. Buy it enjoy it and if you like it is much as I do buy the Video of the performance!
Sunday Night Live
Average customer rating: Not rated
    Sunday Night Live

    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Compilations | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B000GNOHW8
    Release Date: 2007-02-20
    Church
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      Church

      Manufacturer: Freak Mountain Ramblers
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      Pop RockPop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
      ASIN: B000CAEDTW
      Release Date: 2004-06-22
      {Club / Dance Music CONTAINS 51 SONGS ON A 4 CD Set} Pulsating Rhythms Vol. 3 / Dance Pool Vol. 1 / Dance Party Vol. 3 / Club Mix 96 Vol. 2
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        {Club / Dance Music CONTAINS 51 SONGS ON A 4 CD Set} Pulsating Rhythms Vol. 3 / Dance Pool Vol. 1 / Dance Party Vol. 3 / Club Mix 96 Vol. 2
        INTUITION - dance with me, VISIONS OF SHIVA - perfect day, URBAN HYPE - the feeling, ERIRE - i just can't give you up CONTAINS 51 SONGS ON 4 CDs: DAYEENE - around the world , JULIETTE JAIMES - we got it all, LEE ROGERS - love is the most, RAGE - run to you, CULTURE BEAT - inside out, M.D.A. - amor DEBBIE MALONE - running from my love , KLEPH & LOCK - share your lovers - DJ COMPANY - holiday in the land of love, TEQUILA feat. TANJA MARIA - with a boy like you, CLAUDIA CHIN - stop trippin' UPLIFTERS - mr. real , D-DEL-H - move sur ce rythme, HECTOR - luv me, E-SENSUAL - you should be dancing, BLA BLA POSSE - bouguez - SHIKISHA - pretty vacant, LEA KISS - don't stop the night DEDE - party , BLACK MAGIC - freedom, TAYLOR DAYNE - say a prayer, VANESSA DAOU - sunday afternoons, SANDY B - make the world go round NUYORICAN SOUL - mind fluid , KENLOU III - what a sensation, FRESH FISH - bang da bush, SOUL SOLUTION - can't stop love, JOI CARDWELL - you got to pray, D'STILL'D - stop go GROOVE COLLECTIVE - i want you , ACE OF BASE - don't turn around, SISTER SLEDGE - we are family (live), KOOL & THE GANG - take my heart (live), COMMODORES - baby this is forever PLANET SOUL - set u free , THE JACKSON FIVE feat. MICHAEL JACKSON - under the boardwalk, JAMES BROWN - it's too funky in here, DIVINE - native love REAL THING - can't get by without you (live) , THREE DEGREES - i'm doin' fine now, SABRINA - all of me, KOOL & THE GANG - joanna (live), AL JARREAU - ain't no sunshine, LATOYA JACKSON - sexual feeling ROSE ROYCE - car wash (live) , and JAMES BROWN - sex machine, THREE DEGREES - when eill i see you again SISTER SLEDGE - he's the greatest dancer (live)
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD
        ASIN: B000QU6HCY
        Sunday Night Live
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • GOSPEL MUSIC AT ITS BEST
        Sunday Night Live
        Olivet & Oakland
        Manufacturer: Fortress
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

        GeneralGeneral | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
        GospelGospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
        Christian Contemporary MusicChristian Contemporary Music | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
        Live RecordingsLive Recordings | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
        ASIN: B000001563
        Release Date: 1996-04-01

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars GOSPEL MUSIC AT ITS BEST.......2003-02-19

        HATS OFF THE OAKLAND COMMUNITY FOR THAT WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF HOW HARD WORK WILL AND DOES PAY OFF. THE ALBUM IS A TRUE BLESSING AND WONDERFUL INSPIRATION FOR ANYONE WHO HEARS IT.
        Sunday Night LIVE!
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • Beautiful Voices...
        • Very Dynamic Chior
        Sunday Night LIVE!
        Olivet-Oakland Choir
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

        GeneralGeneral | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
        GospelGospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
        GeneralGeneral | R&B | Styles | Music
        GospelGospel | Christian & Gospel | Indie Music | Stores | Music
        GeneralGeneral | R&B | Indie Music | Stores | Music
        ASIN: B00000J10E
        Release Date: 1996-10-01

        Tracks:

        1. Let's Lift Jesus 4:26
        2. Intro 0:39
        3. God Will Bring You Out 3:25
        4. Reprise 1:49
        5. Hold On! (Hold To God's Unchanging Hand) 6:18
        6. It Wasn't the Nails 6:07
        7. I Praise Your Name 3:54
        8. The Lord's Prayer 5:12
        9. You're in the Right Place 7:32
        10. Keep On Believing 6:38
        11. God's Got It 5:22
        12. You Were There 7:30
        13. We Shall Behold Him 4:55
        14. Shout 1:26

        Album Description

        On September 30, 1995, there was a shaking in the heavenlies, and the Bay Area experienced one of the greatest moves of God! The angels around God's throne stopped singing, the four and twenty elders took notice. The Lamb of God Himself, journeyed to Union City, CA to be honored at the "SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE" Worship Service of The Olivet Institutional Baptist Church (Oakland, CA) led by Pastor Gordon Humphrey, Jr. and the famed OLIVET / OAKLAND choir. We trust and pray that you will experience the same anointing that went forth that grand and glorious evening!

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars Beautiful Voices..........2005-11-05

        I have had the pleasure of hearing this choir in person, they sound fantasic. They were guest to my church. I remember just standing there in awe, because they sounded sooooo good. I agree with the other person's review, they'll give you goose bumps.

        5 out of 5 stars Very Dynamic Chior.......2004-01-10

        This chior is so annointed that you get goose bumps just listening to it...especially the Lords prayer...oh my God, saints of God if you dont have the CD..you should puchase it. I just cant express enough how awesome this chior is...
        Live: Sunday Night At London Roadhouse
        Average customer rating: Not rated
          Live: Sunday Night At London Roadhouse
          Nektar
          Manufacturer: independent
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          GeneralGeneral | International | Styles | Music
          GeneralGeneral | Rock | Styles | Music
          Progressive RockProgressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music
          ASIN: B000LX13YI

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