Neil Sedaka On Stage is a 1974 live-in-concert album recorded by Neil Sedaka

Neil Sedaka

Neil Sedaka is an American pop/rock singer, pianist, and composer. His career has spanned nearly 55 years, during which time he has sold millions of records as an artist and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard...

 during one of his tours to Sydney, Australia. The exact date of the recording is not known, but the concert must have taken place at some point between 1971 and 1974. The album contains mostly cover versions of rock and pop standards from previous decades. It was released on the RCA International label in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Track Listing

• Side One
  • (1) "Sugar Sugar"
  • (2) "Everything Is Beautiful
    Everything Is Beautiful
    "Everything is Beautiful" is a song by Ray Stevens. It has appeared on many of Stevens' albums, including one named after the song, and has become a pop standard and common in religious performances. The children heard singing the chorus of the song, using the hymn, "Jesus Loves the Little...
    
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  • (3) MEDLEY
    • (a) "Bridge Over Troubled Water
      Bridge over Troubled Water
      Bridge Over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel. Released on January 26, 1970 on both Quadraphonic and Stereo formats, it reached No. 1 on Billboard Music Charts pop albums list...
      
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    • (b) "O Danny Boy"
  • (4) MEDLEY
    • (a) "Oh! Carol
      Oh! Carol
      "Oh! Carol", sometimes just "Oh Carol" is an international hit written by Neil Sedaka in 1958 about his then-girlfriend, Carol Klein, later to become Carole King. The song was co-written with Howard Greenfield. The song reached #9 in the American charts in 1959. It also earned Sedaka his first #1...
      
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    • (b) "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen
      Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen
      "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" is a pop song released in 1961 by Neil Sedaka. Sedaka wrote the music and performed the song, while the lyrics were written by Howard Greenfield...
      
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    • (c) "Star-Crossed Lovers"
    • (d) "Little Devil
      Little Devil
      "Little Devil" is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield and sung by Neil Sedaka. It was the title track of Sedaka's 1961 album Neil Sedaka Sings Little Devil and His Other Hits. It was released in 1961 and became a hit for him reaching #11 in the US Billboard Charts."Little Devil" was...
      
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    • (e) "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
      Breaking Up is Hard to Do
      "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" is a song recorded by Neil Sedaka, and co-written by Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. Sedaka recorded this song twice, in 1962 and 1975, in two vastly different arrangements.-1962 version:...
      
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    • (f) "Calendar Girl
      Calendar Girl (song)
      "Calendar Girl" is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield and was a hit single for Neil Sedaka. It was released in 1961 reaching #4 on the US Billboard chart, making it one of the better-known Sedaka songs alongside "Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen" "Oh! Carol", and "Breaking Up Is Hard...
      
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  • (5) "The Father of Girls"
  • (6) "Polonaise In A-Flat" by Chopin

• Side Two
  • (7) "Proud Mary"
  • (8) MEDLEY
    • (a) "Bye Bye Blackbird
      Bye Bye Blackbird
      "Bye, Bye, Blackbird" is a song published in 1926 by the American composer Ray Henderson and lyricist Mort Dixon. It is considered a popular standard and was first recorded by Gene Austin in 1926.- Song information :...
      
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    • (b) "I Don't Know Why
      I Don't Know Why
      "I Don't Know Why" is a 1968 song by Stevie Wonder, from the album For Once in My Life...
      
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    • (c) "I Can't Give You Anything But Love"
  • (9) "My World Keeps Getting Smaller Every Day"
  • (10) "Scapriciatiello
  • (11) "The History Of Rock And Roll: MEDLEY"
    • (a) "Those Were The Days
      Those Were the Days (song)
      "Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put English lyrics to the Russian song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" , written by Boris Fomin with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism...
      
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    • (b) "Cry
      Cry (Churchill Kohlman song)
      "Cry" is the title of a 1951 popular song written by Churchill Kohlman. The song was first recorded by Ruth Casey on the Cadillac label. The biggest hit version was recorded in New York City by Johnnie Ray and The Four Lads on October 16, 1951....
      
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    • (c) "Shake, Rattle And Roll
      Shake, Rattle and Roll
      "Shake, Rattle and Roll" is a prototypical twelve bar blues-form rock and roll song, written in 1954 by Jesse Stone under his assumed songwriting name Charles E. Calhoun. It was originally recorded by Big Joe Turner, and most successfully by Bill Haley & His Comets...
      
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    • (d) "Blueberry Hill
      Blueberry Hill (song)
      "Blueberry Hill" is a popular song published in 1940 best remembered for its 1950s rock n' roll version by Fats Domino. The music was written by Vincent Rose, the lyrics by Al Lewis. It was recorded six times in 1940...
      
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    • (e) "Great Balls Of Fire
      Great Balls of Fire
      "Great Balls of Fire" is a 1957 song recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis on Sun Records and featured in the 1957 movie Jamboree. It was written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer...
      
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    • (f) "All Shook Up
      All Shook Up
      "All Shook Up" is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music and composed by Otis Blackwell. Elvis Presley's single topped the U.S. Pop chart on April 13, 1957, staying there for eight weeks. It also topped the R&B chart for four weeks, becoming Presley's second single to...
      
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    • (g) "She Loves You
      She Loves You
      "She Loves You" is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney based on an idea by McCartney, originally recorded by The Beatles for release as a single in 1963. The single set and surpassed several records in the United Kingdom charts, and set a record in the United States by being one of the...
      
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    • (h) "Delilah"
    • (i) "Those Were The Days
      Those Were the Days (song)
      "Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put English lyrics to the Russian song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" , written by Boris Fomin with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism...
      
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Other Releases

In Brazil, the album was released on the RCA Victor label under the title Neil Sedaka Ao Vivo

In the United States, the album was released in 1976 on the RCA Victor label, and was retitled, Sedaka Live In Australia At The South Sydney Junior Leagues Club

CD re-issue

In 1994, the Italian company Fremus re-released On Stage as part of their "Rarities Compilation Series".