Tony Bennett - The Essential Tony Bennett (Rm) (2CD)
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Artist: Tony BennettEdition: Music CD
Format: Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-07-23
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Because Of You
- Cold, Cold Heart
- Blue Velvet
- Rags To Riches
- Stranger In Paradise
- Sing You Sinners
- The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Gigolo And Gigolette)
- Just In Time
- It Amazes Me
- Love Look Away
- Firefly
- Put On A Happy Face
- The Best Is Yet To Come
- Tender Is The Night
- Once Upon A Time
- I Left My Heart In San Francisco
- I Wanna Be Around
- The Good Life
- This Is All I Ask
- When Joanna Loved Me
- The Rules Of The Road
- Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
- If I Ruled The World
- Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
- The Shadow Of Your Smile
- Smile
- The Very Thought Of You
- For Once In My Life
- Yesterday I Heard The Rain (Esta Tarde Vi Llover)
- My Favorite Things
- I Do Not Know A Day I Did Not Love You
- How Do You Keep The Music Playing
- When Do The Bells Ring For Me?
- Night And Day
- Last Night When We Were Young
- Steppin' Out With My Baby
- It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (Live)
- Mood Indigo
- Keep the Faith, Baby (w/ K.D. Lang)
Free Music Notes for The Essential Tony Bennett (Rm) (2CD)
Free Music Review: A Staggering Singer
Hit: 5 Stars
Growing up in the 60s, Sinatra and Bennett were the kings of sophisticated pop songs with Mathis and Andy Williams nipping at their heels. Sinatra was the most emotional. Mathis and Williams always seemed to be skimming the surface, and for much of the time, so did Tony Bennett. But of the group, he was the best singer, and Frank Sinatra acknowledged that in a personally signed photo he gave Bennett. Growing up in San Francisco, his monster hit--I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO--was played in practically every saloon in town and it still is. LOVE LOOK AWAY, RAGS TO RICHES, BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS, BECAUSE OF YOU, FLY ME TO THE MOON, THE BEST IS YET TO COME, FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE(Bennett's effortless top G always tore my own larynx to shreds attempting to imitate him), are bonafide classics. While I always admired the beautiful timbre, the range, and the sheer showbiz pizzaz of his delivery, much of his work was superficial. Or so it seemed. But this new ESSENTIAL TONY BENNETT has some gems I ignored. Anyone who wants to question Bennett's skills as an intepreter should listen to his performances here of IT AMAZES ME and most importantly, I DO NOT KNOW A DAY I DID NOT LOVE YOU. This Richard Rodgers gem was new to me, and it just knocked me out. I had to play the song four times in a row. Bennett sings both with depth and a world-weary sense of inevitability. Here you'll find outstanding examples of his extraordinary breath control (only Streisand is his equal here). His tuning on the latter song is utterly impeccable and his legato exemplary. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. Two CDs are crammed with great cuts and if you listen really carefully, you'll be staggered too.
Like Sinatra I came to appreciate Bennett's skills a bit late in the day. Bennett spent a lot of years without a recording contract and much of the 70s and 80s he was forgotten. When he was finally rediscovered in the 90s, I took notice. Columbia seems to be creating a series here. I passed on THE ESSENTIAL BARBRA STREISAND because the material is readily available on a number of other sources, but the convenience and the selection are the thing here and THE ESSENTIAL TONY BENNETT is on that same excellent level. More please.
The Essential Tony Bennett (Rm) (2CD) Poster
Plays fine, sounds sublime. From a well cared for personal collection. Buy with confidence--see my feedback. Thanks and enjoy this great CD.Tony Bennett has a typical lack of effusiveness about the kudos of his seven-decade career, but he does reportedly display an inscribed picture from a longtime colleague and fellow saloon singer in his Manhattan apartment. It reads: "To the best goddamned pop singer I've ever heard." It's signed "Frank Sinatra." But don't take the Chairman's word for it. Just listen as these two discs bound from one masterly performance to the next, documenting a career whose ups and downs--Bennett actually went long years without a record contract--belie a robust evolution of vocal strength and subtlety of phrasing. The arc of Bennett's art in the decade from "Cold Cold Heart" and "Rags to Riches" to "The Best Is Yet To Come" and his signature "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" is remarkable enough, but it just keeps getting better. When the singer's management shrewdly orchestrated his MTV-powered "comeback" in the late 1980s and '90s, Bennett delivered considerably more than mere hype. Indeed, the highlights of those efforts (a warm, semi-autobiographical collection of ballads; tributes to Sinatra, Astaire, Ellington, and the blues; the obligatory MTV Unplugged set) included here barely skim the surface and arguably warrant a double-disc collection all their own. Still, the 39 tracks here represent the best kind of anthology: one that leaves you craving more. --Jerry McCulley
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