Tony Bennett - The Essential - 2CD (2002)

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Artist: Tony Bennett
Title: The Essential - 2CD
Year Of Release: 2002
Label: Columbia / Legacy
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Vocal Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks) | Mp3 / 320kbps
Total Time: 01:59:07
Total Size: 634 MB | 272 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist
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CD1
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01. Because Of You
02. Cold, Cold Heart
03. Blue Velvet
04. Rags To Richer
05. Stranger In Paradise
06. Sing You Sinners
07. The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
08. Just In Time
09. It Amazes Me
10. Love Look Away
11. Firefly
12. Put On A Happy Face
13. The Best Is Yet To Come
14. Tender Is The Night
15. Once Upon A Time
16. I Left My Heart In San Francisco
17. I Wanna Be Around
18. The Good Life
19. This Is All Ask
20. When Joanna Loved Me
21. The Rules Of The Road

CD2
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01. Who Can I Turn To
02. If I Ruled The World
03. Fly Me To The Moon
04. The Shadow Of Your Smile
05. Smile
06. The Very Thought Of You
07. For Once In My Life
08. Yesterday I Heard The Rain
09. 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 Balls 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
17. Mood Indigo
18. Keep The Faith, Baby

Like most entries in Sony/Legacy's Essential series, 2002's The Essential Tony Bennett is an excellent, exhaustive retrospective of a lengthy, hit-filled career at Columbia. Although Bennett spent time at other labels -- particularly in the '70s -- he made his best-known and greatest recordings for Columbia, from the late '50s through the '90s, which is what provides the bulk of the material here. Though this skips through the '70s material, it does provide what amounts to Bennett at his best, whether it's on "Rags to Riches" and "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" in the '60s, or on latter-day classics like "Steppin' out with My Baby." Bennett surely recorded more great material than can fit on a two-disc, 40-track collection, but this contains the cream of the crop and it's hard to imagine a collection like this being executed better than this.~The Essential Tony Bennett [Columbia/Legacy] Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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