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2000 Years: The Millennium Concert is a two-disc set and the third live album by Billy Joel, released in 2000.

The album was recorded on New Year's Eve 1999 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, during Joel's The Night of Two Thousand Years Tour. Though some alterations were made before its release: some songs are not the same version featured in the original concert (like "Big Shot")^{[citation needed]}, others were edited in studio (some YouTube videos of "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" show Billy singing offkey, while he sings perfectly on the album). 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert also marked the first time several songs had to be transposed to lower keys to accommodate Joel's deepening voice ("I Go To Extremes", "I've Loved These Days", "Goodnight Saigon" and "Only The Good Die Young" are in the key of B♭ vs. C).

Some versions of the album that were released out of the United States are basically a compilation of moments from the concert^{[citation needed]} with two bonus tracks: "This Is The Time" (live from the concert) and "Just The Way You Are" (live from the concert (Japan release Only)).

Track listing[link]

All songs written by Billy Joel, except where noted.

Disc one^[1]

1. "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" (Beethoven) – 1:43
2. "Big Shot" – 4:55
3. "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" – 5:23
4. "Summer, Highland Falls" – 5:29
5. "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" – 6:52
6. "Don't Ask Me Why" – 4:49
7. "New York State of Mind" – 8:29
8. "I've Loved These Days" – 4:30
9. "My Life" – 5:47
10. "Allentown" – 4:48
11. "Prelude/Angry Young Man" – 5:23
12. "Only the Good Die Young" – 3:49

Disc two^[1]

13. "I Go to Extremes" – 5:01
14. "Goodnight Saigon" – 7:28
15. "We Didn't Start the Fire" – 5:21
16. "Big Man on Mulberry Street" – 5:29
17. "2000 Years" – 6:02
18. "Auld Lang Syne" (Burns/Traditional) – 1:44
19. "The River of Dreams" – 5:54
20. "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" – 8:05
21. "Dance to the Music" (Stewart) – 3:17
22. "Honky Tonk Women" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 3:17
23. "It's Still Rock & Roll to Me" – 4:08
24. "You May Be Right" – 6:07
25. "This Night" (Beethoven/Joel) – 4:49

References[link]

Jennifer Holliday
Background information
Birth name	Jennifer-Yvette Holliday
Born	(1960-10-19) October 19, 1960 (age 51)
Origin	Riverside, Texas, USA
Genres	R&B, soul, pop, house, club/dance, gospel
Occupations	Singer, actress
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1980–present
Labels	Geffen (1982-1990), Arista (1990-1996)

Jennifer-Yvette Holliday (born October 19, 1960, Riverside, Texas) is an American singer and Tony Award-winning actress. She started her career on Broadway in musicals such as Dreamgirls, and later became a successful recording artist. She is best known for her debut single, the Dreamgirls showstopper and Grammy Award-winning R&B/Pop hit, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." She is also known as the Queen Of Broadway Gospel.

Biography[link]

Career[link]

Broadway actress[link]

Jennifer landed her first big role on Broadway in 1979. At age 19, she landed a part the same day she auditioned for the Broadway production of Your Arms Too Short to Box with God.^[1] Her performance in that musical earned her a 1981 Drama Desk nomination. Her next role, which she began to act at 21, was the role for which she became best known: the role of Effie Melody White in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls. Jennifer originated the role of Effie and remained with the show for nearly four years after its December 20, 1981 opening. Her performance in the role was widely acclaimed, particularly in her iconic performance of the musical number that ends Act I, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going."

Among the acclaim was Holliday's sweep of awards in 1982, including the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, a Grammy award for her recorded version of the song, and Drama Desk and Theater World awards for her acting performance. Holliday also performed in the touring company of Sing, Mahalia, Sing in 1985. In 1998 Holliday was featured on the album "My Favorite Broadway Ladies" notice as one of "The Queens of Broadway."

Recording artist[link]

Jennifer Holliday's version of the song "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" made her a star on Broadway and catapulted her to national stardom. Her version of the song was enjoyed so much by many fans that Holliday was encouraged to transform the song into a hit on the Billboard charts. In 1982, a pop version of the song was released as a single. The song became very successful, peaking at number-one on the Billboard R&B Singles chart, and number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. She continued to have success as a recording artist through the rest of the decade. Her follow-up song, "I Am Love", became another hit in 1983. Holliday's later R&B hits included. "Hard Time For Lovers" (1985), "No Frills Love" (1985), "Heart on the Line" (1987), "I'm on Your Side" (1991) and "A Woman's Got the Power" (2000). "A Woman's Got the Power" charted at #7 in summer of 1999. However, it recharted the following year, peaking at #1. She continued to appear on the charts throughout the 1990s, but never had the same level of success she had in the 1980s. Holliday was a featured vocalist on the #1 single "I Want to Know What Love Is" by Foreigner in 1985. A number of her songs became hits on the US Dance charts as well. In fact, a dance version of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" would peak at #6 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2001.

Gospel singer[link]

On October 30, 1986, Paul Simon hosted a Ken Ehrlich-Produced "Gospel Session" originally televised as part of a series of "Cinemax Sessions"^[2] featuring Holiday, Luther Vandross, The Oak Ridge Boys, Andrae Crouch, The Edwin Hawkins Singers, and the Mighty Clouds of Joy. The show began with Holiday singing "His Eye Is On The Sparrow." Later, she returned to collaborate with Simon and Vandross on "Still Waters Run Deep," followed by an Aretha Franklin arrangement of "Bridge Over Troubled Water," with the finale consisting of all the participants joining in "Gone At Last," followed by "Amazing Grace."
linda A reviewer, whose identity was not known by late February 2011, wrote:

Holliday became popular with LGBT events and fundraisers, which she acknowledged on her gospel album On and On. Because of this, the Atlantic Entertainment Group's Director of Live Talent, Scott Sherman, produced and promoted many Jennifer Holliday events for several years, acting as both Holliday's de facto agent and road manager. Under Sherman's aegis, Holliday went on a series of special tours and promotions, one-night-only performances, LGBT pride appearances and special fund raising events. Her fans commenced to wait patiently for her to release new singles, and perhaps even a full-length club/dance-style album, and to assume that this might happen once she was re-signed to another record label.

Health concerns and career renewal[link]

In the 1990s, Holliday lost a substantial amount of weight and talked about her health struggles with depression during promotional interviews.^[1] Initially, the weight loss was attained strictly by diet. Eventually, in an effort to avoid regaining the weight, Holliday had gastric bypass surgery. After the initial weight loss, she released an LP and video titled I’m On Your Side. The video, unlike most videos, was recorded live. In 1995, Holliday released the gospel album On & On. In a March 2008 interview, she revealed that she was in the studio working on a new album, to be released later that year.^[5]

In April 2011, Holliday released a Christian CD titled Goodness and Mercy^[6] on her own Euphonic Records label. She produced it in conjunction and cooperation with the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock.^[6]

Television Appearances[link]

Apart from her career in the music industry and on the stage, Holliday has also made appearances on primetime television. In addition to appearances on Touched by an Angel and Hang Time, she had a half dozen appearances in a recurring guest star role on Ally McBeal, where she acted out the role of choir director Lisa Knowles.

In 2001, she sang America The Beautiful on the first WWE pay-per-view to be held after the September 11 terrorist attacks.

On June 26, 2007, Holliday made a surprise appearance at the BET Awards, singing "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" in a duet with Jennifer Hudson, who had played Effie White in the 2006 film adaptation of Dreamgirls, and won an Oscar for her performance. Holliday had not been offered a cameo role in the film and, feeling snubbed, had repeatedly expressed displeasure with the movie in the media. (Another original Dreamgirls cast member, Loretta Devine, did have a cameo in the film.)^[7] More recently, it became possible to see Holliday in a YouTube video, singing a duet with Hudson. The two actresses-singers performed their live duet at a concert Hudson gave on April 16, 2009. The YouTube video has been viewed more than 900,000 times as of December 2011.

On October 17, 2011 Holliday appeared on The Wendy Williams Show where, following a sit-down interview, Holliday performed "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" and received a standing ovation from the studio audience.

On May 23, 2012 Holliday performed "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" alongside American Idol finalist Jessica Sanchez during the American Idol Season 11 finale.Jennifer and Jessica both received positive comments and awed world wide audience with their breath taking performance together and received a standing ovation from the audience inside Nokia Theater including the AI judges. Some even said "no one will/shall dare to do this this song ever again on AI stage.."

Personal life[link]

Holliday has been married twice. In March 1991, just two months after she met keyboardist Billy Meadows in a nightclub where she was singing, they married. "He had a great sense of humor and he made me laugh all the time," Holliday says of her first husband. "I had been feeling bad for so long, I wanted to laugh." But in December 1991, just nine months later, they divorced; the marriage, according to Holliday, "ran out of steam." She explained of Meadows: "We just didn't know each other well enough."^[8]

The second time around, she married a man much like her father. Her second marriage, which began on March 21, 1993 and ended in 1994, was to Rev. Andre Woods, a minister in Detroit. Jet magazine covered the marriage in their April 19th, 1993 issue.^[9] Though Woods was a charismatic Detroit preacher, she subsequently said that even so, he was a player who also ran through her money. Still, Holliday was devastated when, in 1994, that marriage, too, ended, just four months after her mother died of cancer. "It was like experiencing two deaths at the same time," Jennifer remembered. "The grief was overwhelming." ^[8]

Holliday received a Doctor of Music honoris causa from Berklee College of Music, Boston in 2000. In 2001 she was presenter for the tap dance show "21 Below" at Town Hall in NYC and also headlined Equity Cares/Broadway Fights Aids' "Nothing Like a Dame" show at the St. James Theatre where she was accompanied by teenage tap dance sensation Michela Marino Lerman and Hannah Leah Dunn.

As of late February 2011, Holliday was residing in Atlanta, Georgia.

Musical Style[link]

Voice[link]

Jennifer Holliday possesses a versatile vocal range of Dramatic Contralto and Soprano style. She is also known for her signature and powerful growl belting. Holliday blew everyone away in 1982 Tony Awards performance of "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going," for which she received a standing ovation. More of her power was seen at her appearance in a 1987 Gospel Sessions, where she did an earth shaking rendition of "His Eye is on the Sparrow."

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• 1983 Feel My Soul #31 U.S. Billboard 200, #6 U.S. Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
• 1985 Say You Love Me #110 U.S., #34 U.S. R&B
• 1987 Get Close to My Love
• 1991 I'm On Your Side #184 U.S., #29 U.S. R&B
• 1995 On & On #10 U.S. Top Gospel Albums
• 1996 The Best of Jennifer Holliday #50 U.S.
• 2000 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Jennifer Holliday
• 2006 Duet with Najiyah - Through The Storm
• 2011 Goodness and Mercy^[6]

Singles[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

Awards

• 1982 Theatre Awards Outstanding Broadway Debut – Dreamgirls
• 1982 Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical – Dreamgirls
• 1982 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical – Dreamgirls
• 1983 Grammy Award Best Female Performance, Rhythm & Blues – "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls
• 1985 Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance, Gospel – "Come Sunday"

Nominations

• 1981 Drama Desk Award or Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical – Your Arms Too Short to Box with God
• 1983 Grammy Award Best New Artist

See also[link]

• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

References[link]

External links[link]

• Jennifer Holliday on Myspace
• Jennifer Holliday at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jennifer Holliday at the Internet Movie Database
• Performance of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from the 1982 Tony Awards
• Reference 1:Essence June 1999: Jennifer Holliday On Her 2 Failed Marriages
• Reference 2: Nov 1991 Ebony Magazine: Jennifer Holliday About Her Weight Loss
• Reference 3: USA Today February 22, 2007: Jennifer Holliday On the "Dreamgirls" Movie and Jennifer Hudson
• TonyAwards.com Interview with Jennifer Holiday
• The Official Net-Site Of Jennifer Holliday^{[dead link]}

Half-Pint stands for:

Measurement[link]

• half-pint, a unit of measure of volume, specifically a part of a pint.

Persons[link]

• Half Pint, the stage name of the Jamaican reggae singer Lindon Roberts.
• "Half-Pint", the affectionate nickname of the character Le Van Hawke, age 12, portrayed by the American (U.S.A.) boy actor Roland Harrah III in 2 episodes of the television series Airwolf.
• "Half-Pint", the affectionate nickname of the character Laura Ingalls Wilder, portrayed by the American (U.S.A.) girl actor Melissa Gilbert in the television series Little House on the Prairie.
• Half-Pint, the stage name of Cassandra Jackson, female rapper in the hip-hop band Son of Bazerk.

Slang[link]

• "half-pint" or "half pint", a small or short person; usually referring to a child. I.e. runt, squirt, pewee.

Most commonly used in an endearing/ familiar sense.

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