Tony Makes It Happen Explained

Tony Makes It Happen
Type:studio
Artist:Tony Bennett
Cover:Tony_Makes_It_Happen.jpg
Released:April 1967[1]
Recorded:November 26, 1966 (#3, 9)
January 12, 1967 (#1, 10–11)
January 18, 1967 (#4–5)
January 27, 1967 (#2, 6–8)
Studio:Columbia 30th Street (New York City)
Genre:Vocal jazz
Length:30:20
Label:Columbia
CL 2653
CS 9453
Producer:Ernie Altschuler
Prev Title:A Time for Love
Prev Year:1966
Next Title:For Once in My Life
Next Year:1967

Tony Makes It Happen is an album by American singer Tony Bennett,[2] originally released in 1967 on Columbia as CL 2653.

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated May 13, of that year, 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 April 15, of that year, and remained on the chart for 7 weeks, peaking at 73[4]

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.[5]

Track listing

  1. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 2:21
  2. "A Beautiful Friendship" (Donald Kahn, Stanley Styne) – 2:28
  3. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 2:02
  4. "What Makes It Happen" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) – 2:54
  5. "The Lady's in Love with You" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) – 1:43
  6. "Can't Get Out of This Mood" (Jimmy McHugh, Frank Loesser) – 3:40
  7. "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 3:24
  8. "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 2:00
  9. "Country Girl" (Robert Farnon) – 3:37
  10. "Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane, E.Y. Harburg – 3:00
  11. "She's Funny That Way" (Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting) – 3:11

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=DygEAAAAMBAJ&dq=bennett+Makes+It+Happen+2653&pg=RA1-PA46 Billboard Apr 8, 1967
  2. http://avaxhome.ws/hraphile/tony_bennett_makes_it_happen_lp.html At Avax
  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: The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett . 8 October 2024 . allmusic.com .