This Is All I Ask is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1963.
| This Is All I Ask | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | July 1963[1] | |||
| Recorded | April 22–26, 1963 | |||
| Studio | CBS 30th Street (New York City) | |||
| Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
| Length | 32:48 | |||
| Label | Columbia CL 2056 CS 8856 | |||
| Producer | Ernie Altschuler | |||
| Tony Bennett chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Record Mirror |   [2] |
The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated August 24, of that year, and remained on the album chart for 30 weeks, peaking at No. 24[3] it also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated August 17, of that year, and remained on the chart for in a total of 30 weeks, peaking at 14[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
edit- "Keep Smiling at Trouble" (Buddy G. DeSylvia, Al Jolson, Lewis E. Gensler) – 2:08
- "Autumn in Rome" (Sammy Cahn, Paul Weston, Alessandro Cicognini) – 2:19
- "True Blue Lou" (Richard A. Whiting, Leo Robin, Sam Coslow) – 2:46
- "The Way That I Feel" – 2:58
- "This Is All I Ask" (Gordon Jenkins) – 3:17
- "The Moment of Truth" (Tex Satterwhite, Frank Scott) – 2:14
- "Got Her Off My Hands" – 2:04
- "Sandy's Smile" – 3:13
- "Long About Now" – 2:45
- "Young and Foolish" – 3:26
- "Tricks" – 1:52
- "On the Other Side of the Tracks" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 3:46
Recorded April 22, 1963 (#1–2, 10, 12), April 24, 1963 (#3, 6–7), April 26, 1963 (#4–5, 8–9, 11).
Personnel
edit- Tony Bennett – vocals
- Ralph Sharon – piano
- Chico Hamilton – drums (#11)
- Ralph Burns – arranger, conductor
- Unidentified chorus and orchestra
References
edit- ^ Billboard Aug 10, 1963
- ^ "Tony Bennett: This Is All I Ask" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 158. 21 March 1964. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's top pop albums : 1955-1996 : compiled from Billboard magazine's pop album charts, 1955-1996. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-8982-0117-8.
- ^ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 28. ISBN 0-8108-2005-6.
- ^ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
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