Tony Bennett - The Ultimate Tony Bennett
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Artist: Tony BennettEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-10-03
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- I Left My Heart In San Francisco
- Because Of You
- Rags To Riches
- Just In Time
- Stranger In Paradise
- The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
- I Wanna Be Around
- The Good Life
- The Shadow Of Your Smile
- Put On A Happy Face
- If I Ruled The World
- Smile
- Night And Day
- How Do You Keep The Music Playing
- Mood Indigo
- Blue Velvet
- Steppin' Our With My Baby
- When Joana Loved Me
- When Do The Bells Ring For Me
- The Best Is Yet To Come
Free Music Notes for The Ultimate Tony Bennett
Free Music Review: You Can't DO An "Ultimate" Tony Bennett Single CD
Hit: 5 Stars
With all due respect to the people involved with the production of this 2000 Sony release (Didier C. Deutsch, Darcy M. Proper, Danny Bennett and Steve Berkowitz), not to mention Tony himself, it's really quite impossible to come with a definitive single 20-track CD "ultimate" compilation for a man who racked up some 67 hit singles from his first in 1951 (Because Of You - # 1 for TEN weeks that summer) to his last in 1976 (As Time Goes By - # 28 Adult Contemporary early that spring). Never mind his many albums.
The insert explains the choices of the tracks this way: "With a career spanning five decades, over 50 million records sold, and nine Grammy Awards to his credit, this collection of standards, many of which Tony introduced, were hand-picked by the artist himself. This is truly a definitive compilation that is not only a tribute to Tony's musical legacy, but also a comprehensive testimony to his contribution to the Great American Songbook." Can't very well dispute that, but it's just that those of us who grew up alongside this remarkable vocalist likely have so many more Tony Bennett offerings we could argue should have been included.
The sound reproduction is immaculate, with the rest of the 10-page insert taken up by a partial discography of the contents (no chart details), and captioned photos of a young 18-year-old Tony in Astoria, Queens, a shot with Ralph Sharon, listening to the playback of I Left My Heart In San Francisco, a poster of his first concert in 1962 - at Carnegie Hall no less, a shot of him singing with the Count Basie orchestra and another with the Count himself at the piano, a similar one with Ray Charles, a small pic with Bill Evans, eating hot dogs at Nathan's with Frank Sinatra, a shot with Duke Ellington, another with Zoot Simms, one with Judy Garland, one with the Ralph Sharon Quartet, a candid shot of his son Danny working with Joel Moss, and another which came with the inscription: For Tony - The best g.d. pop singer I've ever heard - I love ya - (signed) Frank Sinatra.
But my favourite is the one with Louis Armstrong, taken when Tony presented Satchmo with a portrait he had painted (he's quite the artist too). The caption reads: I gave this painting to Louis in the '70's in London. He said 'You out-Rembrandt Rembrandt.' Later, back home, he hung it over his desk in Queens, N.Y. Someone asked him who painted that and he replied 'A boy from my meighborhood.'
The Ultimate Tony Bennett Poster
While Sinatra, Martin, and the Rat Pack were busy sacrificing a good measure of their vocal talents in the sordid business of fame and fortune, Tony Bennett was quietly, stubbornly, burnishing his vocal gifts into High, if seemingly effortless, Art. How good is Bennett? Just ask the Chairman of the Board and Head Rat: "The best goddamned pop singer I've ever heard." While a single disc can't offer much more than a sketchy outline of Bennett's rich, seven-decade career, this one offers the commercial peaks--and some telling hints at the restless artistic instinct that produced them. From the pure, nearly operatic power and perfect vibrato he displays on early hits such as "Rags to Riches," "Stranger in Paradise" and the overly theatrical, borderline kitsch of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" through his signature "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" to his gratifying if unlikely '90s resurgence, you can literally hear Bennett's voice tempering like the wood of a Stradivarius, his phrasing taking on a deceptively loose, jazz-fueled languor that tells you where his musical heart really lies. The singer, not the song; damn straight advice--take it from a master. -Jerry McCulleyJazz Music CDs
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