The Last Waltz
Song Artist ( s ) Concert Film 1978 album 2002 album
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Up on Cripple Creek The Band 1 3 2 2
The Shape I 'm In The Band 2 4 14 3
It Makes No Difference The Band 3 6 8 4
Life Is a Carnival The Band 4 - 19 6
This Wheel 's on Fire The Band 5 - - 10
W.S . Walcott Medicine Show The Band 6 - - 26
Georgia on My Mind The Band 7 - - -
Ophelia The Band 8 20 16 18
King Harvest ( Has Surely Come ) The Band 9 - - -
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down The Band 10 12 10 29
Stage Fright The Band 11 10 5 14
Rag Mama Rag The Band 12 - - 15
Who Do You Love ? Ronnie Hawkins 13 5 3 5
Such a Night Dr. John 14 8 9 7
Down South in New Orleans Bobby Charles and Dr. John 15 - 15 9
Mystery Train Paul Butterfield 16 15 11 11
Caldonia Muddy Waters 17 - - 12
Mannish Boy Muddy Waters 18 16 12 13
Performances
The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The Last Waltz was advertised as The Band's farewell concert appearance, and the concert saw The Band joined by more than a dozen special guests, including their previous employers Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan as well as Paul Butterfield, Bobby Charles, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, and Neil Young. The musical director for the concert was The Band's original record producer, John Simon. The event was filmed by director Martin Scorsese and made into a documentary of the same title, released in 1978. Jonathan Taplin, who was The Band's tour manager from 1969 to 1972 and later produced Scorsese's film Mean Streets, suggested that Scorsese would be the ideal director for the project and introduced Robbie Robertson and Scorsese. Taplin served as executive producer. The film features concert performances, intermittent song renditions shot on a studio soundstage, and interviews by Scorsese with members of The Band. A triple-LP soundtrack recording, produced by Simon and Rob Fraboni, was issued in 1978. The film was released on DVD in 2002 as was a four-CD box set of the concert and related studio recordings. The Last Waltz is hailed as one of the greatest documentary concert films ever made, although it has been criticized for its focus on Robertson. In 2019, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.