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Formats and Editions
1. Because of You - (mono)
2. Cold, Cold Heart - (mono)
3. Blue Velvet - (mono)
4. Rags to Riches - (mono)
5. Stranger in Paradise - (mono)
6. Sing You Sinners - (mono)
7. Boulevard of Broken Dreams - (mono)
8. Just in Time - (mono)
9. It Amazes Me
10. Love Look Away
11. Firefly
12. Put on a Happy Face
13. Best Is Yet to Come, The
14. Tender Is the Night
15. Once Upon a Time
16. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
17. I Wanna Be Around
18. For the Good Life
19. This Is All I Ask
20. When Joanna Loved Me
21. Rules of the Road, The - (previously unreleased)
1. Who Can I Turn to (When Nobody Needs Me)
2. If I Ruled the World - (from "Pickwick")
3. Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
4. Shadow of Your Smile, The - (from "The Sandpiper")
5. Smile
6. Very Thought of You, The
7. For Once in My Life
8. Yesterday I Heard the Rain
9. My Favorite Things
10. I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You
11. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?
12. When Do the Bells Ring For Me?
13. Night and Day
14. Last Night When We Were Young
15. Steppin' Out With My Baby
16. It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing - (live)
17. Mood Indigo
18. Keep the Faith, Baby - (with k.d lang)
More Info:
39 of Tony's top tracks from the Columbia vaults, spanning five decades of incredible performances! Includes Because of You; Cold, Cold Heart; Blue Velvet; Rags to Riches; Stranger in Paradise; the Boulevard of Broken Dreams; Just in Time; I Left My Heart in San Francisco; Firefly; I Wanna Be Around; for the Good Life; Fly Me to the Moon, and more.Reviews:
''The Essential Tony Bennett'' is a two-CD compilation album by Tony Bennett, released in 2002. The collection is part of a series of ''Essential'' sets released by Columbia Records, and was created in collaboration with RPM Records and Legacy Recordings.
The compilation includes material from throughout Bennett's career with Columbia, with no recordings after 1970 and before 1986 as Bennett was with other labels or unsigned altogether during that fallow period of his career. The 12-page foldout CD insert contains songwriting, arranging, and producing credits for each track, as well as recording dates and chart positions attained if any. It also contains large photographs of Bennett in the recording studio from early and late periods in his career, as well as thumbnail-sized images of all the albums covers from Bennett's Columbia catalog, in chronological order.
Allmusic describes ''The Essential Tony Bennett'' as "an excellent, exhaustive retrospective of a lengthy, hit-filled career at Columbia. ... Bennett surely recorded more great material than can fit on a two-disc, 40-track collection, but this contains the cream of the crop and it's hard to imagine a collection like this being executed better than this." - Wikipedia
