An Evening with Freda Payne: Live in Concert

An Evening with Freda Payne: Live in Concert
Live album by Freda Payne
Released	July 23, 1996
Genre	Pop, R&B, Showtunes
Length	71:12
Label	Dove
Freda Payne chronology
Freda Payne Sings the (Unauthorized) I Hate Barney Songbook: A Parody (1995) An Evening With Freda Payne: Live in Concert (1996) Christmas With Freda and Friends (1996)

An Evening With Freda Payne: Live in Concert is a recording of a live performance that Freda Payne made in Los Angeles on November 6, 1993. In this performance, Payne performs a variety of songs that were an important part in her career, particularly tracks 6 through 10. Tracks 15 through 18 is a tribute to the many female jazz singers of the 1930s and 1940s. Live in Concert (released three years later) is an edited version of this album, although six songs are longer on the other album.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Don't Rain on My Parade"	Jules Styne, Bob Merrill	3:59
2.	"I'm a Woman"	Ella McDaniel, Koko Taylor	5:44
3.	"Little Girl Blue"	Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart	5:43
4.	"One Mint Julep"	Rudy Toombs	3:09
5.	"Teach Me Tonight"	Sammy Cahn, Gene DePaul	3:16
6.	"Through the Memory of My Mind"	William Weatherspoon	2:47
7.	"Cherish What Is Dear to You"	Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Angelo Bond	1:22
8.	"The Road We Didn't Take"	Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, D. Dumas	3:08
9.	"Band of Gold"	Ronald Dunbar, Edythe Wayne	2:32
10.	"Bring the Boys Home"	General Johnson, Angelo Bond, Greg Perry	3:08
11.	"It Don't Mean a Thing"	Irving Mills, Duke Ellington	2:51
12.	"Take the "A" Train"	Billy Strayhorn	4:26
13.	"In a Sentimental Mood"	Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Manny Kurtz	4:59
14.	"Rough and Ready Man"	Hunter	4:55
15.	"Beads"	Sally Eaton, Brackman	4:38
16.	"C'est si bon"	Henri Betti, André Hornez, Jerry Seelen	5:20
17.	"Stormy Weather"	Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler	1:50
18.	"Lady Be Good"	George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin	1:22
19.	"Here's to Life"	Artie Butler, Phyllis Molinary	6:03

Show credits

Production staff

• Artist: Freda Payne
• Producers: Denise Jackson White, Dee Jay Wyte Production; Gene Jackson, Co-Real Artists
• Production stage manager, lighting designer: Larry Oberman
• Set designer: Tom Brown
• Sound/video: Anthony Carr
• Musical director: Rahn Coleman

Musicians

• Drums: Quinton Dennard
• Percussion: Munyungo Jackson
• Guitar: Mike O'Neal
• Sax: Charlie Owens
• Trumpet: Bobby Rodriguez
• Bass: Eddie Watkins

• Singers: Scherrie Payne, Joyce Vincent Wilson, Pam Vincent
• Dancers: Perry Moore, William Wesley

Album credits

• Executive producer: Michael Viner
• Recorded Live, November 6, 1993, Los Angeles
• Producer: Dan Musselman
• Recorded, mixed, and digitally mastered by: Al Johnson - Score One Recording, Inc. - North Hollywood, CA
• Cover design: Susie Dotan
• Cover photograph: Chris Fithian