The Essential Tony Bennett

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Barnes & Noble - William Pearl
What an amazing career Tony Bennett has had! From his days as a young crooner to his glory years in the spotlight as Sinatra’s hit-making heir apparent to his amazing comeback in the 1990s, Bennett has always represented the best in American popular singing. The Essential brings together his signature tunes and amends this treasure trove with select tracks from his more recent albums. Bennett could always put his own spin on any kind of material; here we find him spinning vocal gold with everything from Hank Williams’s “Cold, Cold Heart,” to Cole Porter’s “Night and Day,” Stevie Wonder’s “For Once in My Life” to Duke Ellington’s “Mood Indigo.” The secret of Bennett’s ...
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Editorial Reviews

Barnes & Noble - William Pearl
What an amazing career Tony Bennett has had! From his days as a young crooner to his glory years in the spotlight as Sinatra’s hit-making heir apparent to his amazing comeback in the 1990s, Bennett has always represented the best in American popular singing. The Essential brings together his signature tunes and amends this treasure trove with select tracks from his more recent albums. Bennett could always put his own spin on any kind of material; here we find him spinning vocal gold with everything from Hank Williams’s “Cold, Cold Heart,” to Cole Porter’s “Night and Day,” Stevie Wonder’s “For Once in My Life” to Duke Ellington’s “Mood Indigo.” The secret of Bennett’s success quickly becomes clear as we hear him bringing the same kind of quality and conviction to each and every song. The set concludes with Bennett’s rousing duet with k. d. lang, “Keep the Faith Baby,” a sentiment that could stand as Bennett’s motto. He stayed true to the music, and the music ultimately paid him back in full.
All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Like most entries in Sony/Legacy's Essential series, 2002's The Essential Tony Bennett is an excellent, exhaustive retrospective of a lengthy, hit-filled career at Columbia. Although Bennett spent time at other labels -- particularly in the '70s -- he made his best-known and greatest recordings for Columbia, from the late '50s through the '90s, which is what provides the bulk of the material here. Though this skips through the '70s material, it does provide what amounts to Bennett at his best, whether it's on "Rags to Riches" and "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" in the '60s, or on latter-day classics like "Steppin' out with My Baby." Bennett surely recorded more great material than can fit on a two-disc, 40-track collection, but this contains the cream of the crop and it's hard to imagine a collection like this being executed better than this.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 7/23/2002
  • Label: Sony
  • UPC: 696998663428
  • Catalog Number: 86634
  • Sales rank: 3,778

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Because of You
  2. 2 Cold, Cold Heart
  3. 3 Blue Velvet
  4. 4 Rags to Riches
  5. 5 Stranger in Paradise
  6. 6 Sing You Sinners
  7. 7 The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
  8. 8 Just in Time
  9. 9 It Amazes Me
  10. 10 Love Look Away
  11. 11 Firefly
  12. 12 Put on a Happy Face
  13. 13 The Best Is Yet to Come
  14. 14 Tender Is the Night
  15. 15 Once Upon a Time
  16. 16 I Left My Heart in San Francisco
  17. 17 I Wanna Be Around
  18. 18 For the Good Life
  19. 19 This Is All I Ask
  20. 20 When Joanna Loved Me
  21. 21 The Rules of the Road
Disc 2
  1. 1 Who Can I Turn to?
  2. 2 If I Ruled the World
  3. 3 Fly Me to the Moon
  4. 4 The Shadow of Your Smile
  5. 5 Smile
  6. 6 The Very Thought of You
  7. 7 For Once in My Life
  8. 8 Yesterday I Heard the Rain
  9. 9 My Favorite Things
  10. 10 I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You
  11. 11 How Do You Keep the Music Playing?
  12. 12 When Do the Bells Ring for Me?
  13. 13 Night and Day
  14. 14 Last Night When We Were Young
  15. 15 Steppin' Out With My Baby
  16. 16 It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
  17. 17 Mood Indigo
  18. 18 New York State of Mind
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Tony Bennett Primary Artist
Ray Conniff Conductor
Percy Faith Conductor
Cy Coleman Conductor
Tommy Flanagan Piano
Jimmy Rowles Piano
Ralph Burns Conductor
Ralph Sharon Piano
Johnny Keating Conductor
Frank deVol Conductor
George Siravo Conductor
Al Cohn Tenor Saxophone
Jorge Calandrelli Conductor
Clayton Cameron Drums
Don Costa Conductor
Robert Farnon Conductor
Joe La Barbera Drums
Paul Langosch Bass
Johnny Mandel Conductor
Marty Manning Conductor
Glenn Osser Conductor
Gray Sargent Guitar
Torrie Zito Conductor
Technical Credits
Ray Conniff Arranger
Percy Faith Arranger
Tony Bennett Producer
Cy Coleman Composer
Bobby Hackett Contributor
Ralph Burns Arranger
Irving Mills Composer
Ralph Sharon Arranger
Johnny Keating Arranger
Mitch Miller Producer
Richard Rodgers Composer
Frank deVol Arranger
George Siravo Arranger
Ettore Stratta Producer
Jerry Ross Composer
Richard Adler Composer
Ernie Altschuler Producer
Danny Bennett Producer, Executive Producer
Barney Bigard Composer
Leslie Bricusse Composer
Don Costa Arranger
Luchi de Jesus Composer
Al Dubin Composer
Duke Ellington Composer
Sammy Fain Composer
Robert Farnon Arranger
André Fischer Producer
David Kahne Producer
Teo Macero Producer
Johnny Mandel Arranger
Marty Manning Arranger
Anthony Newley Composer
Glenn Osser Arranger
Phil Ramone Producer
Allen Stanton Producer
Charles Strouse Composer
Harry Warren Composer
Paul Francis Webster Composer
Robert Wells Composer
Mark Wilder Mastering
Torrie Zito Arranger
Ron Miller Composer
Martin Charnin Composer
Al Ham Producer
Herman Leonard Cover Photo
Howard Fritzson Art Direction
Howard Roberts Producer
Carolyn Leigh Composer
Orlando Murden Composer
Jack Segal Composer
Charles DeForest Composer
Mayme Watts Composer
Seth Foster Mastering
Mark Unterberger Packaging Manager
Lee Adams Composer
Lila Lerner Composer
Bart Howard Composer
Robert Wright Composer
Cyril Ornadel Composer
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  • Posted October 1, 2010

    The Essential collection!

    This is the true 'essential' album for Tony Bennett fans, as the title of this album says. It comes with two discs of great, classic music. Perfect as a gift or to keep for your music collection.

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