The live concert featured on the first three sides of this double album was recorded in the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, California in 1978.

It consists of the George Gershwin song, "The Man I Love", together with "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" and the standard "Some of These Days", neither of which she had recorded previously.

Another song in the medley, "Heaven Knows" was an American Top five hit, and it featured vocals by Joe Esposito of the Brooklyn Dreams musical group.

[1] Robert Christgau gave the album a "C" and criticized the arrangements and the song "Mac Arthur Park Suite," to which he preferred Andy Kaufman's interpretation.

[2] Tom Carson from Rolling Stone gave the album a favorable review and wrote that even though "the hits are exiled to side three, they come across fairly well".