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10.14.09
The Rippingtons, Wild Card
2006 | Label: Peak Records
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."
