Here's to the Ladies
Here's to the Ladies | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | October 24, 1995[1] | |||
Recorded | March–July 1995 | |||
Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
Length | 67:17 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | David Kahne | |||
Tony Bennett chronology | ||||
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Here's to the Ladies is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1995.[2]
The theme of the album was songs made famous by female singers. The album won Bennett the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.[3] It peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Traditional Jazz Albums chart.[4]
Sony Music Distribution included this CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection, which contains fifty-eight of his studio albums, 4 compilation, three DVDs, six volumes of Bennett’s non-album singles, a previously unreleased CD of his Las Vegas debut from 1964, and two discs of rarities, including Bennett’s first recording, an Army V-Disc of “St. James Infirmary Blues, and was released on November 8, 2011.[5]
Critical reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [6] |
Entertainment Weekly | A[7] |
Entertainment Weekly wrote that Bennett's "sensitivity to the distaff side of prerock music balances the craggy muscularity of his vocal style."[7]
Track listing
[edit]- "People" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) 4:44 – Barbra Streisand tribute
- "I'm in Love Again" (Peggy Lee, Cy Coleman) 3:52 – Peggy Lee tribute
- "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) 3:59 – Judy Garland tribute
- "My Love Went to London" (T. Seibetta, John Wallowitch) 5:11 – Blossom Dearie tribute
- "Poor Butterfly" (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell) 5:43 – Sarah Vaughan tribute
- "Sentimental Journey" (Les Brown, Bud Green, Ben Homer) 3:29 – Doris Day tribute
- "Cloudy Morning" (Marvin Fisher, Joseph Allan McCarthy) 4:44 – Carmen McRae tribute
- "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) 3:47 – Rosemary Clooney tribute
- "Down in the Depths (On the Ninetieth Floor)" (Cole Porter) 2:11 – Mabel Mercer tribute
- "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) 2:53 – Margaret Whiting tribute
- "Tangerine" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) 4:06 – Helen O'Connell tribute
- "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) 2:51 – Billie Holiday tribute
- "Daybreak" (Harold Adamson, Ferde Grofé) 3:45 – Dinah Washington tribute
- "You Showed Me the Way" (Ella Fitzgerald, Green, Teddy McRae, Chick Webb) 5:31 – Ella Fitzgerald tribute
- "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) 2:57 – Lena Horne tribute
- "Maybe This Time" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) 3:26 – Liza Minnelli tribute
- "I Got Rhythm" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) 2:01 – Ethel Merman tribute
- "My Ideal" (Newell Chase, Leo Robin, Richard Whiting) 1:55 – Margaret Whiting tribute
Personnel
[edit]- Tony Bennett – vocals
- Ralph Sharon – piano
- Clayton Cameron – drums
- Doug Richeson – double bass
- Lew Soloff – trumpet solos
- unidentified session orchestra and big band (except for tracks 8, 10, 12, 16, 17 & 18)
- Jorge Calandrelli – arranger, conductor of the orchestral charts (tracks 2, 4–7, 13–15)
- Bill Holman – arranger, conductor of the Big Band charts (tracks 1, 3, 9, 11)
References
[edit]- ^ "Here's To The Ladies". tonybennett.com.
- ^ "Tony Bennett Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
- ^ "Tony Bennett". Recording Academy. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
- ^ "Tony Bennett". Billboard.
- ^ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "Here's to the Ladies – Tony Bennett | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
- ^ a b "Here's to the Ladies". EW.com.