Favourite Album Track - Live In Hollywood

[fabtastique]

first live album and (ignoring the fact that the best track "Party Girl" is missing) .... still fantastic to have!

[erik]

I went with this album's six-and-a-half minute take on "You're No Good", because of the genuinely even-handed combination of the band's instrumental work and Linda's fierce vocals, at a time when she was at a true apex that, in my opinion, no other female singer before had ever reached.

[Richard W]

I considered it, too, Erik, but had to go with Just One Look because it was a song I'd always felt missed the mark on the album.

But here, Linda and the band (especially Payne's keyboards) hit the song's sweet spot with a rollicking, Werewolves of London-like groove that the studio version just couldn't muster. Plus, Linda and Wendy really open up the old vocal chords to deliver some thrillingly soulful harmonious vowels on those sustains.

Knocks the album version off the shelf.

[erik]

Certainly Billy Payne's keyboard work on "Just One Look" has a great deal of verve to it, with some of those slip-notes that, as I pointed out, seem to show the influence of the legendary Nashville Sound pianist Floyd Cramer.