Tony (album)

Tony
Studio album by Tony Bennett
Released	January 14, 1957
Recorded	June 6 & September 11–13, 1956
Studio	CBS 30th Street Studio, New York
Genre	Jazz
Length	33:27
Label	Columbia CL 938
Producer	Ernest Altschuler
Tony Bennett chronology
Alone at Last with Tony Bennett (1955) Tony (1957) The Beat of My Heart (1957)

Tony is a 1957 Columbia US album (CL938) and Philips UK album (BBL 7138) re-titled "Tony Bennett Showcase", by singer Tony Bennett It reached number 14 on the Billboard album chart in 1957.^[1]

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

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