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- Date Released: November 2, 1999
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Jazz Vocal
- Label: Concord Jazz
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We Say...
Of all the '50s-based Italo-crooners, Bennett has survived into the modern age by celebrating a classicism; at this point he is a virtual repository of the great American canon of standards. His warm-blooded takes (and alternates!) on the Greatest Hits of Richard and Larry - the latter as a lyricist surely more urbane and darker than his upbeat '40s successor, Oscar - swings them into a timelessness far from their roots in America's Depression years. "Blue Moon": need I say more? And for fans of the second person familiar, "Thou Swell."
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They Say...
In sessions recorded in September 1973, Tony Bennett cut a series of songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, backed by the Ruby Braff - George Barnes Quartet. Originally, they resulted in two albums on Bennett's Improv Records, each containing ten selections. The material has been collected several times, including on the 1990 DRG collection The Rodgers and Hart Songbook, the 1999 Rhino disc Sings Rodgers & Hart Songs, and the 2005 Concord compilation Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook. Bennett is a sterling interpreter, and the backup is sympathetic.
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| 01. |  |
This Can't Be Love |
1:41 |
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| 02. | |
Blue Moon |
2:13 |
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| 03. | |
The Lady Is A Tramp |
2:29 |
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| 04. | |
Lover |
3:50 |
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| 05. | |
Manhattan |
3:19 |
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| 06. | |
Spring Is Here |
2:45 |
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| 07. | |
Have You Met Miss Jones? |
3:22 |
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| 08. | |
Isn't It Romantic? |
3:24 |
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| 09. | |
Wait Till You See Her |
1:28 |
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| 10. | |
I Could Write A Book |
3:12 |
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| 11. | |
Thou Swell |
2:14 |
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| 12. | |
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World |
3:48 |
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| 13. | |
There's A Small Hotel |
3:03 |
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| 14. | |
I've Got Five Dollars |
2:36 |
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| 15. | |
You Took Advantage Of Me |
2:19 |
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| 16. | |
I Wish I Were In Love Again |
2:29 |
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| 17. | |
This Funny World |
3:07 |
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| 18. | |
My Heart Stood Still |
1:58 |
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| 19. | |
My Romance |
3:45 |
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| 20. | |
Mountain Greenery |
2:58 |
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| 21. | |
This Can't Be Love (Alternate Take 1) |
1:44 |
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| 22. | |
I Could Write A Book (Alternate Take 2) |
3:17 |
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| 23. | |
Thou Swell (Alternate Take 1) |
2:10 |
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| 24. | |
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (Alternate Take 4) |
3:19 |
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| 25. | |
I Wish I Were In Love Again (Alternate Take 1) |
2:56 |
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| 26. | |
This Funny World (Alternate Take 3) |
3:19 |
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26 Total Tracks, 72:45 Total Length
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