Tony
Studio album by
Tony Bennett
ReleasedJanuary 14, 1957
RecordedJune 6 & September 11–13, 1956
StudioCBS 30th Street Studio, New York
GenreJazz
Length33:27
LabelColumbia
CL 938
ProducerErnie Altschuler
Tony Bennett chronology
Alone at Last with Tony Bennett
(1955)		 Tony
(1957)		 The Beat of My Heart
(1957)

Tony is a 1957 album by singer Tony Bennett. It reached number 14 on the Billboard album chart in 1957.

Track listing

  1. "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 2:58
  2. "You Can Depend on Me" (Charlie Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines) – 2:14
  3. "I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So" (Mack David, Duke Ellington) – 3:29
  4. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) – 2:09
  5. "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 3:28
  6. "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:37
  7. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:32
  8. "I'll Be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) – 2:48
  9. "Always" (Irving Berlin) – 2:59
  10. "Love Walked In" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:00
  11. "Lost in the Stars" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) – 3:25
  12. "Without a Song" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 2:48

Tracks recorded on June 6 (#11), September 11 (#1–4), September 12 (#5, 8, 10, 12), September 13 (#6–7, 9), 1956.

Personnel

  • Tony Bennett – vocals
  • Orchestra conducted by Ray Conniff (#1–10 & 12) and Percy Faith (#11)
  • Gil Evans – arranger
  • A. Epstein, A. Howard, Bernard Kaufman, J. Palmer, E. Powell, F. Schwartz, Wolf Taninbaum, W. Versaci, Stan Webb, Milt Yaner – r
  • Phil Bodner – alto sax, tenor sax, cl
  • Peter Pumiglio – alto sax, cl
  • Billy Butterfield, Bernie Glow, Dale McMickle, Jimmy Nottingham, Ernie Royal, Doc Severinsen – trumpet
  • Robert Alexander, Larry Altpeter, Albert Godlis, Urbie Green, T. Mitchell, Jack Satterfield – trombone
  • Dick Hyman, Bernie Leighton – piano
  • D. Arnone, Al Caiola, Chuck Wayne – guitar
  • I. Cusikoff, Lucien Schmidt, Alan Schuman – vc
  • Frank Carroll – bass
  • H. Breuer, William Exiner, M. Grupp – drums
  • Mike Stewart – backing vocals

Strings

  • R. Bocho, Julius Brand, Samuel Carmell, Emanuel Green, Julius Held, H. Hoffman, Leo Kruczek, Milton Lomask, Harold Melnikoff, George Ockner, Gene Orloff, Samuel Rand, Julius Schachter – violin
  • Sidney Brecher, Richard Dickler – viola

References


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