Astoria: Portrait of the Artist

Astoria: Portrait of the Artist
Studio album by Tony Bennett
Released	February 27, 1990
Recorded	May 16–18, 1989
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	47:13
Label	Columbia
Producer	Danny Bennett
Tony Bennett chronology
Bennett/Berlin (1987) Astoria: Portrait of the Artist (1990) Perfectly Frank (1992)

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Astoria: Portrait of the Artist is a 1990 studio album by Tony Bennett. The title refers to Bennett's birthplace, Astoria, Queens.

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.

Track listing

1. "When Do the Bells Ring for Me?" (Charles DeForest) – 2:58
2. "I Was Lost, I Was Drifting" (Kim Gannon, Bronisław Kaper) – 3:54
3. "A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet" (Gus Kahn, Harry M. Woods) – 3:17
4. "The Girl I Love" ("The Man I Love") (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:17
5. "It's Like Reaching for the Moon" (Al Sherman, Al Lewis, Gerald Marqusee) – 2:28
6. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) – 3:43
7. "The Folks Who Live On the Hill" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:58
8. "Antonia" (Jack Segal, Robert Wells) – 3:05
9. "A Weaver of Dreams"/"There Will Never Be Another You" (Jack Elliott, Victor Young)/(Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 2:42
10. "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 4:00
11. "Where Do You Go from Love?" (DeForest) – 3:03
12. "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:21
13. "Where Did the Magic Go?" (P.J. Erickson, Buddy Weed) – 4:50
14. "I've Come Home Again" (DeForest) – 2:32

Personnel

• Tony Bennett – vocals
• Ralph Sharon – piano