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| 1. Begin The Beguine | |||
| 2. Smile | |||
| 3. Don't Get Around Much Anymore | |||
| 4. "Our Love Is Here To Stay (From ""The Goldwyn Follies"")" | |||
| 5. Steppin' Out With My Baby | |||
| 6. Bewitched | |||
| 7. The Lady's In Love With You | |||
| 8. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) | |||
| 9. "Anything Goes (From ""Anything Goes"")" | |||
| 10. The Very Thought Of You | |||
| 11. The Way You Look Tonight | |||
| 12. Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye | |||
| 13. That Old Black Magic | |||
| 14. A Foggy Day | |||
| 15. Ain't Misbehavin' | |||
| 16. It Had To Be You | |||
| 17. Moonglow | |||
| 18. She's Funny That Way (I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) | |||
| 19. You Go To My Head | |||
| 20. They Can't Take That Away From Me | |||
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Tony Bennett claims to have invented the phrase "the great American songbook"–and it's a claim no one has disputed, as there is no doubt that he continues to be an unflinching champion of the genre. One might question the presence of Antonio Carlos, from Rio de Janiero (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars), or Ray Noble, born in Brighton, in an American songbook (The Very Thought of You); yet both composers have been embraced by the American public as artists of their own.
Audiences familiar with Bennett's concerts will appreciate this album's intelligent sequencing, moving from intimate ballads to extrovert swingers. As his voice has mellowed, his insight into a lyric has, if anything, sharpened, whilst his musical knowhow remains peerless. He takes a lower option on a high note at the end of the phrase "tearing my fear apart" from The Way You Look Tonight, and now favours sparser accompaniments, pared back to the minimum on several occasions, such as on A Foggy Day.
The earliest of these recordings comes from the 1960s when Bennett's voice was a powerful and flexible instrument. Opener Begin the Beguine, Don't Get Around Much Anymore and The Lady's in Love With You, where Bennett works up a storm with a smart lyric by Frank Loesser ("If there's a gleam in her eye / when she straightens your tie / that means the lady's in love with you"), are projected with great panache against gleaming big band arrangements. By contrast Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars, from one of Bennett's most memorable albums I Wanna Be Around, offers a tender response, beginning with a wordless melisma floated across a flute obbligato. Equally beguiling is the warmth he brings to Ain't Misbehavin' and his duet with trumpeter Bobby Hackett on The Very Though of You.
Live performances are exemplary, with Bennett's technique assured throughout–a highlight is this version of Anything Goes, recorded at New York's Carnegie Hall. There's some fabulous piano playing from his excellent accompanists in You Go to My Head, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered and Steppin' Out With My Baby–on the latter, phrases from other songs are scattered around in the introduction. Bennett's warm and enthusiastic introduction of k.d. lang for their duet, Moonglow, is, like the man himself, a great testament to his art as a singer who continues to endear himself to audiences worldwide. --Adrian Edwards
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Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto; August 3, 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz. Raised in New York he has won a magnificent fifteen Grammy Awards, two Emmy Awards and has been named an NEA Jazz Master. Even his friend Frank Sinatra described him as ‘the best singer in the business’. This album is an amazing selection of tracks which highlights Tony’s voice. The Ultimate American Songbook has been a long-term passion for Tony and it has taken him many years to choose each individual track from the thousands of his recorded masters since the 1950s. It was a daunting task for a performer who has made over 105 albums in an illustrious career that began on April 17th 1950 with his recording of Boulevard Of Broken Dreams. The album is a showcase for some the greatest writers/composers of all time, including Cole Porter, Ray Nobel, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Jerome Kern, Vernon Duke, Richard Rogers, Irving Berlin and the great teams of George/Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer and Gush Kahn/ Ishram Jones and provides a musical atlas of songs and releases spanning from the 1930s – 1990s. The UK CD is an EBridge CD containing an 'Ultimate Access Pass', which will allow the consumer to put the purchased CD into their computer and download 6 extra tracks plus allow them to stream extra video content and be entered into exclusive competitions.
Ultimate Access Pass: I Left My Heart In San Francisco/I Thought About You Night and Day/The Shadow of Your Smile/Just In Time/Emily/The Good Life.
Ultimate Access Pass: I Left My Heart In San Francisco/I Thought About You Night and Day/The Shadow of Your Smile/Just In Time/Emily/The Good Life.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Meaning this is a very nicely put together compilation and much more imaginative than the endless "best of" packages we usually get every couple of years, but, there are still approximately 30 Tony Bennett albums that have NEVER been released on CD anywhere in the world, all of them from when he was in his vocal prime. Please can we have some of these re-issued?
Sony/Columbia have done a large amount of 2 albums-on-1 CD releases of artists like Andy Williams and Johnny Mathis but so far have released only one such Bennett two-fer and that was almost 16 years ago.
Come on Sony!!!
Sony/Columbia have done a large amount of 2 albums-on-1 CD releases of artists like Andy Williams and Johnny Mathis but so far have released only one such Bennett two-fer and that was almost 16 years ago.
Come on Sony!!!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It's one of the best artists in the world singing a small selection of the best songs in the world. How bad could it be? Its just perfect
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Tony Bennett's experience, spread over so many years and performances, are captured brilliantly here. No single genre, other than Bennett's own, and beautifully delivered. Additional songs are a bonus. Wonderful
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I am 77 years old--my birthday is October 19, 1933!
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I am 77 years old--my birthday is October 19, 1933!
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