Tony (album) explained

Tony
Type:	studio
Artist:	Tony Bennett
Cover:	Tony (album).jpeg
Released:	January 14, 1957
Recorded:	June 6 & September 11–13, 1956
Studio:	CBS 30th Street Studio, New York
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	33:27
Label:	Columbia CL 938
Producer:	Ernie Altschuler
Prev Title:	Alone at Last with Tony Bennett
Prev Year:	1955
Next Title:	The Beat of My Heart
Next Year:	1957

Tony is a 1957 album by singer Tony Bennett. It reached number 14 on the Billboard album chart in 1957, first appearing February 23 that year, and remaining on the chart for nine weeks.^[1]

Track listing

1. "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 2:58
2. "You Can Depend on Me" (Charlie Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines) – 2:14
3. "I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So" (Mack David, Duke Ellington) – 3:29
4. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) – 2:09
5. "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 3:28
6. "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:37
7. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:32
8. "I'll Be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) – 2:48
9. "Always" (Irving Berlin) – 2:59
10. "Love Walked In" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:00
11. "Lost in the Stars" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) – 3:25
12. "Without a Song" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 2:48

Tracks recorded on June 6 (#11), September 11 (#1–4), September 12 (#5, 8, 10, 12), September 13 (#6–7, 9), 1956.

Personnel

• Tony Bennett – vocals
• Orchestra conducted by Ray Conniff (#1–10 & 12) and Percy Faith (#11)
• Gil Evans – arranger
• A. Epstein, A. Howard, Bernard Kaufman, J. Palmer, E. Powell, F. Schwartz, Wolf Taninbaum, W. Versaci, Stan Webb, Milt Yaner – r
• Phil Bodner – alto sax, tenor sax, cl
• Peter Pumiglio – alto sax, cl
• Billy Butterfield, Bernie Glow, Dale McMickle, Jimmy Nottingham, Ernie Royal, Doc Severinsen – trumpet
• Robert Alexander, Larry Altpeter, Albert Godlis, Urbie Green, T. Mitchell, Jack Satterfield – trombone
• Dick Hyman, Bernie Leighton – piano
• D. Arnone, Al Caiola, Chuck Wayne – guitar
• I. Cusikoff, Lucien Schmidt, Alan Schuman – vc
• Frank Carroll – bass
• H. Breuer, William Exiner, M. Grupp – drums
• Mike Stewart – backing vocals

Strings

• R. Bocho, Julius Brand, Samuel Carmell, Emanuel Green, Julius Held, H. Hoffman, Leo Kruczek, Milton Lomask, Harold Melnikoff, George Ockner, Gene Orloff, Samuel Rand, Julius Schachter – violin
• Sidney Brecher, Richard Dickler – viola

Notes and References

1. The Billboard Albums, 6th edn. Joel Whitburn. 2006. Record Research Inc. p. 92. .