Live at the Opera House is the first live album

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 released by the American

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 vocal group The Pointer Sisters

Pointer Sisters

The Pointer Sisters are an American pop/R&B recording act from Oakland, California that achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s. Spanning over three decades, their repertoire has included such diverse genres as pop, disco, jazz, bebop, blues, soul, funk, dance, country and rock.The...

, released on the Blue Thumb

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 label in 1974.

History

The album became a milestone for the group. They became the first contemporary pop group to perform at San Francisco's Opera House

War Memorial Opera House (San Francisco)

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. The album peaked at number 96 on the Billboard 200

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 and reached number 29 on the R&B albums chart. The album was remastered and issued on CD in 2006 by Hip-O Select

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.

Track listing

Personnel

• Anita Pointer
  Anita Pointer
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  , Ruth Pointer
  Ruth Pointer
  Ruth Pointer is an American R&B singer, best known for being the eldest member of The Pointer Sisters.-Early life:Pointer was born in Oakland, California. She began her vocal training as a director of a junior choir in her father's church.-The Pointer Sisters:Joining her sisters in 1972, the...
  
  , Bonnie Pointer
  Bonnie Pointer
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  , June Pointer
  June Pointer
  June Antoinette Pointer Whitmore was an American Pop/R&B singer and was a founding member/and lead vocalist of the vocal group The Pointer Sisters.-Early life and career:...
  
   – vocals
• Thomas P. Salisbury – piano, clavinet, organ
• Gaylord Birch
  Gaylord Birch
  Gaylord G. Birch was a drummer for the bands Santana, Cold Blood, Pointer Sisters & Herbie Hancock.Birch was the drummer for the Pointer Sisters during 1974 and performed many live performances with the group...
  
   – drums, congas
• John Newmann – bass
• Chris Michie – guitar

Production

• David Rubinson & Friends, Inc. – producer, mix-down engineer
• Fred Catero – associate producer, recording engineer, mix-down engineer
• David Coffin, Greg Odell, Valerie Clausen, Stephen Jarvis, Ken Hopkins – recording engineers
• George Horn, Phil Brown – mastering engineer
• Tom Salisbury – conductor, arrangements
• Tom Wilkes
  Tom Wilkes
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   – graphics
• Ren Deaton – photography

Chart positions

Chart (1974)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	96
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...	29

External links

• Live at the Opera House at Discogs
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