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Alone Together (Tony Bennett album)

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Released
  
July 11, 1960

Release date
  
11 July 1960

Genre
  
Vocal jazz

Length
  
42:10

Label
  
Columbia Records

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Recorded
  
February 28-March 1, 1960 CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City

Alone Together (1961)
  
Sings a String of Harold Arlen (1961)

Artists
  
Tony Bennett, Frank DeVol and His Orchestra

Similar
  
Tony Bennett albums, Vocal jazz albums

Alone Together is an album by American singer Tony Bennett. It was originally recorded in 1960 and released in 1961 on Columbia as CL 1471. It almost exclusively features string arrangements of standards, with a choir, harp accompaniment and sparse percussion in places. It is among the most obscure Bennett recordings. So far, it has been released on CD only in Japan by Sony/CBS.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Alone Together" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) - 3:07
  2. "This Is All I Ask" (Gordon Jenkins)- 4:12
  3. "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 3:37
  4. "Walk in the Country" (Bart Howard) - 3:46
  5. "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" (Harry Carroll, Joseph McCarthy) - 2:46
  6. "Poor Butterfly" (Raymond Hubbell, John Golden) - 3:41
  7. "After You've Gone" (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) - 3:57
  8. "Gone With the Wind" (Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson) - 3:34
  9. "It's Magic" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 3:17
  10. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:52
  11. "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Mitchell Parish, Irving Mills) - 3:00
  12. "For Heaven's Sake" (Elise Bretton, Sherwin Edwards, Don Meyer)- 3:21

Recorded on February 28 (#1, 5, 11), February 29 (#6, 7-8, 10, 12) and March 1 (#2-4, 9), 1960.

Personnel

  • Tony Bennett – vocals
  • Frank DeVol - conductor, arranger
  • Unspecified string section

    • Songs

    1Alone Together
    2This Is All I Ask
    3Out Of This World

    References

    Alone Together (Tony Bennett album) Wikipedia
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