Melissa Manchester 'Live '77' album from the vault to get deluxe reissue

Here is the press release on a new live album from the vault by Melissa Manchester...

In the Summer of 1977, Melissa Manchester toured North America’s arenas and amphitheaters with Leo Sayer before launching a fall solo tour that attracted Bob Dylan, who attended the Minneapolis date. Melissa played Carnegie Hall, appeared on network television specials, taped a memorable commercial with Ella Fitzgerald, and released her sixth album, Singin.'

That October, at Gainesville, Florida’s Great Southern Music Hall, Melissa recorded her first live album. The double record in front of a college audience, leading a seven-piece band of rock, R&B, and jazz veterans including two KISS collaborators–saxophonist/keyboardist Tom Saviano (Dolly Parton, Earth Wind & Fire) and bassist Bill Bodine (Van Morrison, Cher)–plus drummer Art Rodriguez (Rickie Lee Jones, Manhattan Transfer) and Melissa’s discovery Lenny Castro, now one of the most-recorded percussionists of all time.

Yet Arista Records shelved the album, where it has remained unheard...until now. Melissa Manchester’s Live ’77 makes its long-overdue debut from Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records as a deluxe 2-CD set on April 1.

Her setlist included hits “Midnight Blue,” “Better Days,” and the song Bob Dylan admired, “Just You and I,” as well as the now standard “Come in from the Rain,” fan favorites “We’ve Got Time,” “Happy Endings,” and “Caravan,” and covers of “I Wanna Be Where You Are,” “Rescue Me,” and “Monkey See, Monkey Do.” Live ’77 also premieres Melissa’s only recording anywhere of the blues classic “Hi-Heel Sneakers.”

The deluxe booklet includes rare photos and liner notes by The Second Disc’s Joe Marchese with an exclusive Interview with the artist and former Arista President Clive Davis.

Track listing:

CD One

1. Let Me Serenade You
2. Party Music
3. Happy Endings
4. Midnight Blue
5. Be Somebody
6. This Lady’s Not Home
7. We’ve Got Time
8. Good News
9. I Wanna Be Where You Are
10. Monkey See, Monkey Do
11. Rescue Me
12. Hi-Heel Sneakers

CD Two

1. Caravan
2. Be Happy Now
3. Better Days/Come In from the Rain
4. O Heaven (How You’ve Changed Me)
5. A Love of Your Own
6. If It Feels Good (Let It Ride)
7. Just You and I
8. Easy
9. No One’s Ever Seen This Side of Me