A Time for Love (Tony Bennett album) explained

A Time for Love
Type:compilation
Artist:Tony Bennett
Cover:timelovetony.jpg
Released:August 29, 1966
Recorded:1960–66 in Los Angeles, London and New York City
Genre:Vocal jazz
Length:35:27
Label:Columbia
CL 2560
CS 9360
Producer:Ernie Altschuler
Prev Title:The Movie Song Album
Prev Year:1966
Next Title:Tony Makes It Happen
Next Year:1967

A Time for Love is a 1966 compilation album by Tony Bennett made of unreleased material recorded between 1960 and 1966.

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated October 8, of that year, and remained on the album chart for 18 weeks, peaking at No. 68[1]

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.[2]

Track listing

  1. "A Time for Love" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) – 3:22
  2. "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) – 4:34
  3. "Trapped in the Web of Love" (Jeanne Burns) – 3:20
  4. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:06
  5. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 3:17
  6. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) – 3:02
  7. "Georgia Rose" (Jimmy Flynn, Harry Rosenthal, Alex Sullivan) – 2:54
  8. "The Shining Sea" (Mandel, Peggy Lee) – 2:50
  9. "Sleepy Time Gal" (Richard A. Whiting, Raymond B. Egan, Joseph R. Alden, Ange Lorenzo) – 3:46
  10. "Touch the Earth" (Jeri Southern) – 2:10
  11. "I'll Only Miss Her When I Think of Her" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:06

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn's top pop albums : 1955-1996 : compiled from Billboard magazine's pop album charts, 1955-1996 . 1996 . Record Research . 978-0-8982-0117-8 . Menomonee Falls, Wis. . 74.
  2. Web site: The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett . 8 October 2024 . allmusic.com .