The Main Event – Live

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Released 1974 Artist Frank Sinatra Label Reprise Records Genre Traditional pop music		Length 50:42 Release date 1974 Recorded October 1974

The Main Event – Live (1974) Portrait of Sinatra - Forty Songs from the Life of a Man (1977) Similar My Kind of Broadway, Sinatra 80th: Live in Concert, Everything Happens to Me, Classic Sinatra II, Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris

The Main Event – Live is a live album and television special by Frank Sinatra from 1974.

Track listing

Overture: "It Was a Very Good Year"/"All the Way"/"My Kind of Town" (Ervin Drake)/(Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen)/(Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:12 (introduction by Howard Cosell)
"The Lady Is a Tramp" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:02
"I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) – 4:37
"Let Me Try Again (Laisse Moi le Temps)" (Paul Anka, Cahn, Michel Jourdon, Caravelli) – 3:26
"Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 2:45
"I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) – 4:44
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" (Jim Croce) – 2:49
"Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) – 8:32
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Stevie Wonder) – 2:49
"The House I Live In (That's America to Me)" (Lewis Allan, Earl Robinson) – 6:41
"My Kind of Town" – 3:01
"My Way" (Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibault) – 4:57

Tracks 10 and 12 recorded in Boston Garden, October 2, 1974

Tracks 6 and 8 recorded at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, October 4, 1974

Track 5 recorded in Madison Square Garden, October 12, 1974

Tracks 1-4, 7, 9, and 11 recorded in Madison Square Garden, October 13, 1974

Frank Sinatra - Vocals

Woody Herman and the Young Thundering Herd

Bill Miller - Conductor

Irv Cottler - Drums

Al Viola - Guitar

Gene Cherico - Bass

Recording

Engineered by: Ed Greene, Doug Nelson, David Hewitt

Record Plant NY White Truck

1The Lady Is a Tramp2:58
2I Get a Kick Out of You4:37
3Let Me Try Again3:27

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