When Lights Are Low (Tony Bennett album) explained

When Lights Are Low
Type:studio
Artist:Tony Bennett
Cover:tonylights.jpg
Released:April 20, 1964[1]
Recorded:March 26, 1964 (#1–5, 9–12)
March 27, 1964 (#6–7)
February 26, 1964 (#8, 13–15)
Studio:
Genre:Vocal jazz
Length:37:20
Label:Columbia
CS 8975
Producer:Ernie Altschuler
Prev Title:The Many Moods of Tony
Prev Year:1964
Next Title:Who Can I Turn To?
Next Year:1965

When Lights Are Low is a 1964 studio album by Tony Bennett.

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated May 23, of that year, and remained on the album chart for 12 weeks, peaking at No. 78,[2] it also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated May 23, of that year, and remained on the chart for in a total of 15 weeks, peaking at No. 29[3]

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.[4]

Track listing

  1. "Nobody Else but Me" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:56
  2. "When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter, Spencer Williams) – 4:57
  3. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) – 4:02
  4. "Ain't Misbehavin" (Fats Waller, Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf) – 2:42
  5. "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" (Billy Mayhew) – 2:18
  6. "I've Got Just About Everything" (Bob Dorough) – 6:08
  7. "Judy" (Sammy Lerner, Hoagy Carmichael) – 3:00
  8. "Oh! You Crazy Moon" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:23
  9. "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) – 2:08
  10. "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 3:15
  11. "It Could Happen to You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 1:18
  12. "The Rules of the Road" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 2:13

Bonus tracks on CD reissue:

  1. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:43
  2. "All of You" (Cole Porter) – 2:17
  3. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine) – 2:44

Personnel

Performance

Notes and References

  1. Web site: When Lights Are Low. tonybennett.com. August 18, 2022.
  2. 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.
  3. Book: Hoffmann, Frank W . The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974 . 1988 . Scarecrow Press . 0-8108-2005-6 . Metuchen, N.J. . 28.
  4. Web site: The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett . 8 October 2024 . allmusic.com .