The Last Concert (2002)/ Clooney, Rosemary

"Rosemary Clooney's performance at the Neal S. Blaisdell Concert Hall in Honolulu on November 16, 2001, backed by the big band Big Kahuna & the Copa Cat Pack and the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, turned out to be her final show before her death on June 29, 2002. Following an instrumental overture canvassing some of her better known songs, Clooney opened with "Sentimental Journey," the first of her borrowings from other "girl singers". The song set the stage for a collection of standards. The album contains many of Clooney's stage remarks, which are punctuated with self-deprecating humor. On the whole, the show is a typically wonderful Clooney show that just happens to have been her last." (AllMusic)