Following "NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL IN MADARAO 1984" and "LIVE UNDER THE SKY '86", the third installment of jazz treasure footage is here. Up until now, we have been presenting festival report programs, but the main character this time is Linda Ronstadt. She visited Japan three times in 1979, 1981, and 1984, but this work features her last visit to Japan, "April 3, 1984: Yokohama Performance". This concert was broadcast as a digest on a certain commercial broadcasting station at the time, and a domestic recording enthusiast air-checked it. It was digitized directly from the master that had been carefully preserved. The video has a truly wonderful vintage feel. It has a slightly grainy feel compared to the previous two works, but the broadcast at that time is vividly revived in a preserved state without dubbing marks or creases. The beautiful video depicts "1984" itself. Linda at this time was at the beginning of the so-called "standard trilogy" period, right between the first installment "WHAT'S NEW" and the second installment "LUSH LIFE". Backed by the great Nelson Riddle and his band, she sings standard numbers with her sexy singing voice at the age of 37. You can see numbers that you can't hear even in the official work "IN CONCERT: WHAT'S NEW", such as "What'll I Do" from "WHAT'S NEW", "Sophisticated Lady" from the next album "LUSH LIFE", and the Eagles cover "Desperado" in the multi-camera professional shot. In addition to the singing voice and the big band tune, the show itself has a very early 1980s mood. Especially interesting is "Falling In Love Again". A crescent-shaped chair appears along with Linda's words "Moon, come out", and she is supposed to sit on it and sing... but here is where the trouble begins. No matter how long Linda waits, the moon does not come out. As the MC continued, "You're a shy moon and not used to being on stage," the moon finally came down from the ceiling...or so I thought, but it stopped midway with a jerky movement. Linda burst out laughing but looked troubled, saying, "Come down a little more. I'm 5 feet 3 inches tall!" "Ah! I'm up again." "Maybe she doesn't understand English. How do I say it in Japanese?" She was completely confused. What's more, the chair for the moon was flimsy and looked like a set for a Japanese top 10 show or an 8 o'clock group show. In modern show business, even if things don't go as planned, they would just start singing and not make any mistakes, but they didn't even hide the pathetic mess. What's more, this mess has a lasting effect. Linda somehow manages to sing on the moon (is it okay to ride on the moon when it's so clumsy!?), but when she gets off, Linda bursts out laughing and her singing voice becomes shaky. Perhaps the laughter switch was turned on here, because she burst out laughing at the soap production in "What'll I Do" and couldn't sing at all. "Let me do it again from the beginning," "I'm on TV as a professional," she said, but still burst out laughing. Wiping away her tears, she closed her eyes, ignored the soap, and somehow managed to sing through... The old-fashioned production and the generosity of the show. There are a series of famous scenes that exude a sense of the era more than the fashion or hairstyle. The many commercials also exude a sense of the era. When you think the world's strongest fire engine is advertising for the camera, a high school girl opens a reference book on the beach for some reason and says, "Youth is a little complicated, like an equation...". A new diet cola is released, and a mysterious drink that says "milk has become transparent" appears, and "What? Sasuke?" There are so many things that I can't even remember the taste of. The celebrities that appear are incomprehensible aerobics outfits and the original angry actress. One of the comedy big three dresses up as Tsukutsuku Hoshi, the mascot of the Los Angeles Olympics... It shows us chaos that makes us wonder if it's nostalgic or another world. Linda's beauty and beautiful voice, the standard numbers played by the big band, the sad production, and the many nostalgic commercials... All of these make this a record that exudes the scent of "1984". The whole story of a music program that was shown on a cathode ray tube 33 years ago. Live at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Yokohama, Japan 3rd April 1984 PRO-SHOT (52:55) 1. Intro. 2. What's New 3. CM 4. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry 5. Sophisticated Lady 6. Falling In Love Again 7. CM 8. Kalamazoo 9. Dream 10. CM 11. What'll I Do 12. Man 13. CM 14. Band Introductions 15. Good-Bye 16. Desperado 17. CM Nelson Riddle - Arranger, Conductor Don Grolnick - Piano John Guerin - Drums Bob Magnusson - Bass Bob Mann - Guitar Plas Johnson - Tenor Liza Edwards - Chorus Elizabeth Lamers - Chorus Red Young - Chorus, Piano PRO-SHOT COLOUR NTSC Approx. 53min.
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