My First Affair
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| artist = Lari White
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| released = April 6, 2007
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| genre = Cabaret
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| label = Skinny WhiteGirl Records
| producer = Lari White
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My First Affair was a cabaret show and the soundtrack later released by American Broadway-country-gospel artist Lari White.{{cite news |title=Grammy Winner White Mixes Nashville, Broadway in Cabaret Debut |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aVzEy2yygQPU&refer=home|work=Bloomberg News |date=March 1, 2007 |access-date=2010-10-16 }}
Show
The cabaret show was at the Oak Room cabaret at the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan, New York City, on February 12, 2007.{{cite news |author=Brian Scott Lipton |author-link=Brian Scott Lipton |url=http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/reviews/02-2007/lari-white-my-first-affair_10177.html |title=Lari White: My First Affair |access-date=2010-10-16 |date=February 28, 2007 }}{{cite AV media notes |title=My First Affair |others=Lari White |year=2007 |type=CD |publisher=Skinny WhiteGirl Records }}{{cite news |author=Stephen Holden |author-link=Stephen Holden |title=The Broadway-country-gospel singer Lari White pulled a fast one in the opening moments of her New York cabaret debut in the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel on Tuesday evening. ... |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/arts/music/01lari.html?_r=2 |work=New York Times |date=March 1, 2007 |access-date=2010-10-15 }} The show included a mix of pop, country, gospel and Broadway songs including several original compositions by White.Peter Haas, Cabaret Scenes, March 1, 2007, "{{cite web |url=http://www.cabaretscenes.org/cabaret_reviews/2007/Mar%2007/white-lari3-07.html |title=Cabaret Scenes Review - Lari White |access-date=2010-09-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725115341/http://www.cabaretscenes.org/cabaret_reviews/2007/Mar%2007/white-lari3-07.html |archive-date=2011-07-25 }}" The album was released on April 6, 2007 on Skinny White Girl Records.All Music Guide, "[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1356854|pure_url=yes}}]"
Track listing
- “Please Be Kind/ Gotta Have Me Go With You” (Sammy Kahn, Saul Chapman/ Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin) - 2:30
- “There’s A Terrific Band” (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Billy Goldenberg) - 3:32
- “Doatsy Mae” (Carol Hall) - 3:12
- “Minor Changes” (Lari White) - 2:14
- “Museums” (Steven Lutvak) - 4:33
- “Forgiveness’ Embrace” (Stephen Schwartz) - 4:00
- “Love Me or Leave Me” (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) - 2:15
- Richard Rogers Medley: “Falling in Love With Love” (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) / “A Cockeyed Optimist” (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 2:49
- “Over and Over” (Lari White) - 3:46
- “It Ain’t My Business” (DeSpain, Anderson-Lopez) - 3:26
- Yentl Medley: “Where is it Written?” (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) / “No Wonder” (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand)/ “A Piece of Sky” (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) - 6:42
- “It’s A New World” (Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen) - 2:04
Production
- Producer: Lari White
- Recorded Live by: Chris Herles and Jean Pierre Perreaux At the Metropolitan Room at Gotham, courtesy Chris Mazzilli
- Directed by: Eric Michael Gillett
- Piano: Don Rebic
- Bass: Steve Doyle
References
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