Cloud 7 Explained

Cloud 7
Type:	studio
Artist:	Tony Bennett
Cover:	TonyBennettCloud7Cover.jpg
Released:	^[1]
Recorded:	August 6 & December 22, 1954
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Columbia
Producer:	Mitch Miller
Prev Title:	Because of You
Prev Year:	1952
Next Title:	Alone at Last with Tony Bennett
Next Year:	1955

Cloud 7 is the second studio album by Tony Bennett, released in 1955.

The album featured material from the Great American Songbook and presented Bennett in a way different from his hit parade material of the early nineteen-fifties using a combo of jazz musicians. The album was arranged by the featured guitarist, Chuck Wayne, and trumpeter Charles Panely and was recorded between August and December 1954.

Track listing

Side one

1. "I Fall in Love Too Easily" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 2:50
2. "My Baby Just Cares for Me" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 2:21
3. "My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 4:54
4. "Old Devil Moon" (Yip Harburg, Burton Lane) – 2:55
5. "Love Letters" (Edward Heyman, Victor Young) – 2:33

Side two

1. "My Reverie" (Larry Clinton, Claude Debussy) – 2:17
2. "Give Me the Simple Life" (Rube Bloom, Harry Ruby) – 4:13
3. "While the Music Plays On" (Irving Mills, Lupin Fein, Emery Heim) – 4:35
4. "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" (Clarence Gaskill, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:09
5. "Darn That Dream" (Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:18

Personnel

• Tony Bennett – vocals, liner notes
• Dave Schildkraut – alto saxophone
• Charles Panely – trumpet, arranger
• Chuck Wayne – guitar, arranger
• Clyde Lombardi – double bass

Tracks 1 and 4

• Al Cohn – tenor saxophone
• Gene DiNovi – piano
• Sonny Igoe – drums

Other tracks

• Caesar DiMauro – tenor saxophone
• Harvey Leonard – piano
• Ed Shaughnessy – drums

CD additional personnel

• Danny Bennett – executive producer
• Steven Berkowitz – executive producer, A & R
• Stacey Boyle – tape research
• Lisa Buckler – project director
• Didier C. Deutsch – reissue producer
• Patti Matheny – artist coordination
• Darcy Proper – reissue producer, mastering
• Darren Salmieri – artist coordination
• Jonathan Schwartz – liner notes

Notes and References

1. https://tonybennett.com/media.php?ty=album&tb=7 Tony Bennett.com