I Wanna Be Around... Explained
I Wanna Be Around... is a 1963 album by singer Tony Bennett.
Track listing
- "The Good Life" (Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon) – 2:15
- "If I Love Again" (Jack Murray, Ben Oakland) – 3:19
- "I Wanna Be Around" (Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstadt) – 2:11
- "I've Got Your Number" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 1:45
- "Until I Met You" (Freddie Green, Don Wolf) – 2:57
- "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin) – 2:52 (omitted on CD reissue)
- "Once Upon a Summertime" (Eddie Barclay, Michel Legrand, Eddy Marnay, Mercer) – 2:00
- "If You Were Mine" (Matty Malneck, Mercer) – 2:15
- "I Will Live My Life for You" (Henri Salvador, Marcel Stellman) – 2:26
- "Someone to Love" (Harry Warren) – 1:58
- "It Was Me" (Gilbert Becaud, Norman Gimbel) – 3:04
- "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Gene Lees) – 3:16
Bonus tracks on CD reissue (all taken from the album "This Is All I Ask"):
- "Autumn in Rome" (Sammy Cahn, Alessandro Cicognini, Paul Weston) – 2:15
- "The Way That I Feel" (Harry Brooks) – 2:55
- "The Moment of Truth" (Tex Satterwhite, Frank Scott) – 2:14
- "Got Her Off My Hands (But Can't Get Her Off My Mind)" (Sam M. Lewis, Flip Phillips, Joe Young) – 2:00
- "Long About Now" (Fred Hellerman, Fran Minkoff) – 2:44
- "Young and Foolish" (Albert Hague, Arnold B. Horwitt) – 3:22
- "Tricks" (Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes) – 1:48
Recorded March 16, 1962 (#5), October 19, 1962 (#2–4, 6–9), December 19, 1962 (#1, 10–11), April 22, 1963 (#12, 17), April 24, 1963 (#14–15), April 26, 1963 (#13, 16, 18)
Personnel
Notes and References
- https://tonybennett.com/media.php?ty=album&tb=8 Tony Bennett.com
