I love her studio recording of this extremely hip tune, but I love this performance even more, for this reason... In live performance, she sings every lyric in the same way that Sir Derek Jacobi declaims Shakespeare: As though it was occurring to her right on the spot.
Brilliant version, as one might expect of such an interpreter; Judy always picked the best material. I generally don't presume to comment on such things but, though I hold Artie Shaw in the highest regard as a musician and bandleader and have read of both his and Judy's '39 romance and the admiration he had for her, I can only believe that Artie Shaw, the man, was about the last thing that poor girl needed in her life; right up there with what was dispensed to her by MGM. It ended for the best
This is a beautiful version. I like the Carnegie Hall one as well. But the beauty of the studio recording of "Alone Together", from the 1960 album "That's Entertainment" is enchanting. Check out, on the same album, "Yes" "It Never Was You" and "If I love again"..... Bob Jennings in Toronto
The Carnagie Hall version had to be recorded in the studio and dropped into the live recording due to the bad sound quality on the live Carnegie Hall recording.
The original CH album had her live performance of Alone Together, but when it got remastered in 1989, because of a technical problem, her Capitol studio recording of it was put in its place. That might be the version you didn't care for. But the newest release has corrected the problem and the original CH performance is back.
I have been looking for this song for so long. When i first her sing it on her Carnegie Hall It was very powerful but when the CD was Digitaly Remastered. It felt borning and dull since i have been looking for the cd before the sound was redone and edited
