For Once in My Life (Tony Bennett album) explained

For Once in My Life
Type:studio
Artist:Tony Bennett
Cover:For Once in My Life (Tony Bennett album).jpeg
Recorded:
  • December 14, 1965 (#8)
  • January 18, 1967 (#7)
  • April 20, 1967 (#2–3, 10)
  • July 18, 1967 (#4–5, 9)
  • September 1, 1967 (#6)
  • October 16, 1967 (#1)
Studio:
Genre:Vocal jazz
Label:Columbia
Prev Title:Tony Makes It Happen
Prev Year:1967
Next Title:Yesterday I Heard the Rain
Next Year:1968

For Once in My Life is an album by Tony Bennett, released in December 1967.[1]

Tony Tamburello was the musical director, and Marion Evans, Ralph Burns,and Torrie Zito arranged and conducted their own compositions on the album. Corky Hale played the harp, John Bunch played the piano. Milt Hinton on Bass, and Sol Gubin on Durms.[2]

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated January 13, 1968, and remained on the album chart for 6 weeks, peaking at No. 178[3] it also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated February 3, 1968, and remained on the chart for 4 weeks, peaking at 91[4]

The album was released on compact disc for the first time by Beat Goes On on June 30, 2009 as tracks 1 through 10 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 11 through 23 consisting of Bennett's studio album from August 1969, I've Gotta Be Me[5]

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.[6]

Reception

William Ruhlmann of Allmusic's said "Bennett made his by-now usual selections of standards ("They Can't Take That Away From Me"), Broadway and Hollywood material, and choices from the catalogs of songwriter favorites such as Leslie Bricusse and Cy Coleman"[7]

Billboard gave the album a postive reviews, saying it features a "a full of so many good tunes, both standards and contemporary[8]

In A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Will Friedwald described the album as "Terrific Album."[9]

Track listing

  1. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:45
  2. "Something in Your Smile" (Leslie Bricusse) – 2:25
  3. "Days of Love" (Paul Francis Webster, David Rose) – 2:21
  4. "Broadway Medley: Broadway / Crazy Rhythm / Lullaby of Broadway" – 2:40
  5. "For Once in My Life" (Ron Miller, Orlando Murden) – 3:20
  6. "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar) – 2:23
  7. "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 3:08
  8. "Baby, Dream Your Dream" (Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields) – 1:58
  9. "How Do You Say Auf Wiedersehn" (Johnny Mercer, Anthony James Scibetta) – 3:14
  10. "Keep Smiling at Trouble" (Buddy DeSylva, Al Jolson, Lewis Gensler) – 3:01

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZygEAAAAMBAJ&dq=bennett+Once+My+Life+2773&pg=PA30 Billboard Dec 23, 1967
  2. Web site: 2024-09-14 . For Once in My Life . 2024-09-14 . The Interactive Tony Bennett Discography . en-US.
  3. 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.
  4. Book: Hoffmann, Frank W . The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974 . 1988 . Scarecrow Press . 0-8108-2005-6 . Metuchen, N.J. . 28.
  5. Web site: For Once in My Life/I've Gotta Be Me . 8 October 2024 . AllMusic.
  6. Web site: The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett . 8 October 2024 . allmusic.com .
  7. Web site: Ruhlmann . William . Tony Bennett - For Once in My Life: Rating & Reviews . 2024-10-11 . AllMusic.
  8. December 23, 1967 . Pop Spotlight: For Once in My Life . . 64 . en . 71 . 51.
  9. Book: Friedwald, Will . A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers . 2010 . Pantheon Books . 9780375421495 . 45 . en.

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