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Michael Bublé supported his 2005 multi-platinum album It’s Time with an international tour that saw him make two stops, in August, at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre.  Those concerts formed the basis of his concert album released later that year, Live! Caught in the Act.  The original release consisted of a concert film on DVD and an audio sampler with eight songs on CD.  Now, for its 20th anniversary, Live! Caught in the Act is being reissued as a 2CD set (also available digitally) with the complete concert in audio form.  It’s due from Reprise on April 24.

The It’s Time tour illustrated the trajectory of Bublé’s career to that point, featuring the young crooner’s reinterpretations of classic standards from that album (Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse’s “Feeling Good,” Eddy Arnold and Cindy Walker’s “You Don’t Know Me,” Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman’s “Save the Last Dance for Me,” Holland-Dozier-Holland’s “How Sweet It Is,” Lennon and McCartney’s “Can’t Buy Me Love,” and others) alongside the original single “Home” – an Adult Contemporary chart-topper – and varied favorites from his earlier LPs.

The show was taped for PBS’ Great Performances to air during the holiday season, prompting the singer to perform Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne’s “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” in the middle of a sweltering California summer.  Taking in the full breadth of the Great American songbook from Peggy Lee to Gamble and Huff (with Leon Russell, Stevie Wonder, and Van Morrison in between), Caught in the Act peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Jazz chart and achieved multi-platinum status around the world.  David Foster and Humberto Gatica produced the release.  Since Caught in the Act, Bublé has released just one more live LP: 2009’s Meets Madison Square Garden.  (His live catalogue is rounded out by 2004’s Come Fly with Me, the audio component of which featured six live tracks and two studio recordings.)

The upcoming 2CD and digital presentation marks the first time the 100-minute concert, “in its entirety” per the label, has been released in audio format.  (Curiously, Bublé’s irreverent cover of Maroon 5’s “This Love” does not appear on the track listing under that title.)  It arrives April 24; you’ll find pre-order links and the full track listing below.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Michael Bublé, Live! Caught in the Act (143/Reprise, 2026) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

1. Overture
2. Feeling Good
3. Sway
4. Introduction & Welcome
5. Try A Little Tenderness
6. Fever
7. “No flash photography!”
8. Michael visits the balcony
9. Come Fly With Me
10. Summer Wind
11. Moondance
12. Band introduction
13. Michael pays tribute to his idols
14. You Don’t Know Me
15. That’s All
16. For Once In My Life
17. Michael introduces Laura Pausini
18. You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine (with Laura Pausini)
19. Michael has an epiphany
20. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
21. Michael introduces Smile
22. Smile
23. Michael introduces Home
24. Home
25. You & I
26. The More I See You
27. Save The Last Dance For Me
28. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
29. Can’t Buy Me Love
30. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
31. Closing remarks
32. A Song For You / Finale
33. Let It Snow (Bonus Track)

Tracks 2, 10, 18, 22, 24-26, 29 released on 143/Reprise CD 49444-2, 2005