The Essential Tony Bennett is a two-CD compilation album by Tony Bennett, released in 2002.[3] The collection is part of a series of Essential sets released by Columbia Records and was created in collaboration with RPM Records and Legacy Recordings.
The compilation includes material from throughout Bennett's career with Columbia, with no recordings after 1970 and before 1986 as Bennett was with other labels or unsigned altogether during that fallow period of his career. The 12-page foldout CD insert contains songwriting, arranging, and producing credits for each track, as well as recording dates and chart positions attained if any. It also contains large photographs of Bennett in the recording studio from early and late periods in his career, as well as thumbnail-sized images of all the albums covers from Bennett's Columbia catalog, in chronological order.
AllMusic describes The Essential Tony Bennett as "an excellent, exhaustive retrospective of a lengthy, hit-filled career at Columbia. ... 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."
In 2008, a 3 disc version entitled The Essential Tony Bennett: Limited Edition 3.0 was released.[4]
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The Essential Tony Bennett is a two CD compilation album by Tony Bennett released in 2002 3 The collection is part of a series of Essential sets released by Columbia Records and was created in collaboration with RPM Records and Legacy Recordings The Essential Tony BennettGreatest hits album by Tony BennettReleasedJuly 23 2002 2002 07 23 Recorded1951 2001GenreTraditional pop jazzLabelRPM Columbia LegacyProducerDanny Bennett Steve Berkowitz Didier C Deutsch 1 Tony Bennett chronologyPlaying with My Friends Bennett Sings the Blues 2001 The Essential Tony Bennett 2002 A Wonderful World 2002 Limited Edition 3 0Limited Edition 3 0Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllmusic 2 The compilation includes material from throughout Bennett s career with Columbia with no recordings after 1970 and before 1986 as Bennett was with other labels or unsigned altogether during that fallow period of his career The 12 page foldout CD insert contains songwriting arranging and producing credits for each track as well as recording dates and chart positions attained if any It also contains large photographs of Bennett in the recording studio from early and late periods in his career as well as thumbnail sized images of all the albums covers from Bennett s Columbia catalog in chronological order AllMusic describes The Essential Tony Bennett as an excellent exhaustive retrospective of a lengthy hit filled career at Columbia 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 In 2008 a 3 disc version entitled The Essential Tony Bennett Limited Edition 3 0 was released 4 Contents 1 Track listing 5 1 1 Disc One 1 2 Disc Two 1 3 Disc Three Limited Edition 3 0 2 ReferencesTrack listing 5 editDisc One edit Because of You Arthur Hammerstein Dudley Wilkinson 2 56 Cold Cold Heart Hank Williams 2 37 Blue Velvet with Percy Faith and His Orchestra Bernie Wayne Lee Morris 2 59 Rags to Riches Richard Adler Jerry Ross 2 48 Stranger in Paradise with the Ray Charles Singers Robert Wright George Forrest Alexander Borodin 3 04 Sing You Sinners Sam Coslow W Franke Harling 2 15 Boulevard of Broken Dreams Dubin Warren 2 30 Just in Time Betty Comden Adolph Green Jule Styne 2 32 It Amazes Me Cy Coleman Carolyn Leigh 3 22 Love Look Away Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein II 2 45 Firefly with Count Basie and His Orchestra Coleman Leigh 1 37 Put on a Happy Face Lee Adams Charles Strouse 2 37 The Best is Yet to Come Coleman Leigh 2 33 Tender is the Night Sammy Fain Paul Francis Webster 2 40 Once Upon a Time Adams Strouse 2 57 I Left My Heart in San Francisco George Cory Douglass Cross 2 50 I Wanna Be Around Johnny Mercer Sadie Vimmerstedt 2 10 The Good Life Sacha Distel Ray Reardon 2 14 This is All I Ask Gordon Jenkins 3 14 When Joanna Loved Me Robert Wells Jack Segal 3 05 The Rules of the Road Cy Coleman Carolyn Leigh 2 20 previously unreleased recorded 1964 Disc Two edit Who Can I Turn To When Nobody Needs Me Leslie Bricusse Anthony Newley 2 54 If I Ruled the World Bricusse Cyril Ornadel 3 00 Fly Me to the Moon In Other Words Bart Howard 4 11 The Shadow of Your Smile Johnny Mandel Paul Francis Webster 3 37 Smile John Turner Geoffrey Parsons 3 32 The Very Thought of You Ray Noble 4 30 For Once in My Life Ronald Dean Miller Orlando Murden 3 22 Yesterday I Heard the Rain Esta Tarde vi Llover Armando Manzanero Gene Lees 3 40 My Favorite Things Rodgers Hammerstein 3 17 I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You Rodgers Martin Charnin 3 27 How Do You Keep the Music Playing Alan Bergman Marilyn Bergman Michel Legrand 4 20 When Do the Bells Ring for Me Charles DeForest 2 57 Night and Day Cole Porter 3 34 Last Night When We Were Young Harold Arlen Yip Harburg 2 26 Steppin Out With My Baby Irving Berlin 2 52 It Don t Mean a Thing If It Ain t Got That Swing Duke Ellington Irving Mills 3 05 live Mood Indigo Barney Bigard Ellington Mills 4 33 Keep the Faith Baby with k d lang Luchi de Jesus Lila Lerner Mayme Watts 3 50From track 19 of Disc One on most selections are credited with the Ralph Sharon Trio Disc Three Limited Edition 3 0 edit Lazy Afternoon John Latouche Jerome Moross 2 21 Penthouse Serenade When We re Alone Val Burton Will Jason 6 17 Lost in the Stars Kurt Weill Maxwell Anderson 4 30 My Funny Valentine Richard Rodgers amp Lorenz Hart 2 35 Danny Boy F E Weatherly 4 57 Previously Unreleased Recorded 1964 Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars Corcovado Antonio Carlos Jobim Buddy Kaye amp Gene Lees 3 17 Country Girl Robert Farnon 3 38References edit CD packaging The Essential Tony Bennett at AllMusic CD packaging CD packaging CD packaging Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Essential Tony Bennett amp oldid 1189346612, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
