The Essential Tony Bennett [Columbia/Legacy] by Tony Bennett (CD, Jul-2002, 2 Discs, Legacy)

Album Features
UPC:	696998663428
Artist:	Tony Bennett
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2002
Record Label:	Legacy
Genre:	Pop Vocal, Show Vocals
Number Of Discs:	2

Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Because of You - (mono)
2. Cold, Cold Heart - (mono)
3. Blue Velvet - (mono)
4. Rags to Riches - (mono)
5. Stranger in Paradise - (mono)
6. Sing You Sinners - (mono)
7. Boulevard of Broken Dreams - (mono)
8. Just in Time - (mono)
9. It Amazes Me
10. Love Look Away
11. Firefly
12. Put on a Happy Face
13. Best Is Yet to Come, The
14. Tender Is the Night
15. Once Upon a Time
16. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
17. I Wanna Be Around
18. For the Good Life
19. This Is All I Ask
20. When Joanna Loved Me
21. Rules of the Road, The - (previously unreleased)

DISC 2:
1. Who Can I Turn to (When Nobody Needs Me)
2. If I Ruled the World - (from "Pickwick")
3. Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
4. Shadow of Your Smile, The - (from "The Sandpiper")
5. Smile
6. Very Thought of You, The
7. For Once in My Life
8. Yesterday I Heard the Rain
9. My Favorite Things
10. I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You
11. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?
12. When Do the Bells Ring For Me?
13. Night and Day
14. Last Night When We Were Young
15. Steppin' Out With My Baby
16. It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing - (live)
17. Mood Indigo
18. Keep the Faith, Baby - (with k.d lang)

Details
Contributing Artists:	K.D. Lang, Bobby Hackett, Ralph Sharon, Jimmy Rowles, Al Cohn, Count Basie & His Orchestra
Distributor:	Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Mixed
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel includes: Tony Bennett, k.d. Lang (vocals); Percy Faith, Ray Conniff, Frank DeVol, Ralph Burns, Marty Manning, Don Costa, Johnny Mandel, Torrie Zito, Robert Farnon (arranger, conduct); Al Cohn (tenor saxophone); Bobby Hackett (cornet); Jimmy Rowles, Tommy Flanagan (piano); Count Basie & His Orchestra; Ralph Sharon Trio.Producers include: Mitch Miller, Ernie Altschuler, Teo Macero, Danny Bennett,David Kahne.Compilation producers: Steve Berkowitz, Didier C. Deutsch.Recorded between 1951 & 2001.All tracks have been digitally remastered.It's almost shocking to realize that before this collection's release, the career of musical legend Tony Bennett had been extensively anthologized only in box-set format and never by a career-spanning two-disc compilation. Upon inspection, it seems like the ultimate no-brainer--pick some of the mainly highlights from this vocal sensation's 50-year career, put them in chronological order, and let the magic happen.Happen it does, as we're treated to gems from every phase of Bennett's oeuvre. Casual listeners may be surprised to learn that the '50s found Tony successfully reinventing Hank Williams's "Cold Cold Heart" alongside more customary fare such as signature song "Rags to Riches." No one will be shocked at the very necessary inclusion of the '60s comeback smash "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," but those who think of Bennett as an artifact belonging only to Sinatra's time will be educated by the subsequent material included here. From the sinuously jazzy "Steppin' Out with My Baby" to a moving take on the Elllington evergreen "Mood Indigo" and an album-closing duet with K.D. Lang, the more contemporary material here makes just as convincing a case as the earlier work for Bennett as THE living master of the Great American Songbook.