The Main Event – Live

The Main Event - Live
Live album by Frank Sinatra
Released	1974
Recorded	October 1974
Genre	Classic pop
Length	50:42
Label	Reprise FS 2207
Frank Sinatra chronology
Some Nice Things I've Missed (1974) The Main Event – Live (1974) Portrait of Sinatra - Forty Songs from the Life of a Man (1977)

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

Track listing

1. 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)
2. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:02
3. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) – 4:37
4. "Let Me Try Again (Laisse Moi le Temps)" (Paul Anka, Cahn, Michel Jourdon, Caravelli) – 3:26
5. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 2:45
6. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) – 4:44
7. "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" (Jim Croce) – 2:49
8. "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) – 8:32
9. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Stevie Wonder) – 2:49
10. "The House I Live In (That's America to Me)" (Lewis Allan, Earl Robinson) – 6:41
11. "My Kind of Town" – 3:01
12. "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

Personnel

• 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

References

1. The Main Event – Live at AllMusic

See also

• Sinatra: New York (2009): features Frank Sinatra performing at Madison Square Garden from October 12, 1974.