Alone Together (Tony Bennett album)
Alone Together | ||||
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Released | July 11, 1961 | |||
Recorded | February 28 – March 1, 1960 | |||
Studio | CBS 30th Street (New York City) | |||
Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
Length | 42:10 | |||
Label | Columbia CL 1471 CS 8262 | |||
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Source | Rating |
New Record Mirror | 4/5[1] |
Alone Together is an album by American singer Tony Bennett. It was originally released in 1961 on Columbia as CL 1471. It almost exclusively features string arrangements of standards, with a choir, harp accompaniment and sparse percussion in places. It is among the most obscure Bennett recordings. So far, it has been released on CD only in Japan by Sony/CBS.
Sony Music Distribution included this CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection, which contains fifty-eight of his studio albums, 4 compilation, three DVDs, six volumes of Bennett’s non-album singles, a previously unreleased CD of his Las Vegas debut from 1964, and two discs of rarities, including Bennett’s first recording, an Army V-Disc of “St. James Infirmary Blues, and was released on November 8, 2011.[2]
Track listing
[edit]- "Alone Together" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) – 3:07
- "This Is All I Ask" (Gordon Jenkins) – 4:12
- "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 3:37
- "Walk in the Country" (Bart Howard) – 3:46
- "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" (Harry Carroll, Joseph McCarthy) – 2:46
- "Poor Butterfly" (Raymond Hubbell, John Golden) – 3:41
- "After You've Gone" (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) – 3:57
- "Gone With the Wind" (Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson) – 3:34
- "It's Magic" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:17
- "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:52
- "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Mitchell Parish, Irving Mills) – 3:00
- "For Heaven's Sake" (Elise Bretton, Sherwin Edwards, Don Meyer) – 3:21
Recorded on February 28 (#1, 5, 11), February 29 (#6, 7–8, 10, 12) and March 1 (#2–4, 9), 1960.
Personnel
[edit]- Tony Bennett – vocals
- Frank DeVol – conductor, arranger
- Unspecified string section
References
[edit]- ^ "Tony Bennett: Alone Together" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 23. 19 August 1961. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
- ^ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.