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If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set

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Released
  
April 19, 1965

Producer
  
Ernie Altschuler

Release date
  
19 April 1965

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
41:35

Artist
  
Tony Bennett

Label
  
Columbia Records

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Recorded
  
January 4, 1965 (#4, 6, 10) February 18, 1965 (#3, 7, 9) February 19, 1965 (#1-2, 5, 8, 11-12) CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City

If I Ruled the World Songs for the Jet Set (1965)
  
The Movie Song Album (1966)

Similar
  
To My Wonderful One, This Is All I Ask, Long Ago and Far Away, Cloud 7, The Movie Song Album

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If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set is a 1965 studio album by Tony Bennett, arranged by Don Costa. Bennett dedicated his recording of "Sweet Lorraine" on the album to Nat "King" Cole, who had died a month before the album's release.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Samba do Avião" ("Song of the Jet") (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Gene Lees) – 3:34
  2. "Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) – 4:00
  3. "How Insensitive" (Vinicius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel, Jobim) – 4:23
  4. "If I Ruled the World" (Leslie Bricusse, Cyril Ornadel) – 3:00
  5. "Love Scene" (Marshall Barer, Duke Ellington) – 2:33
  6. "Take the Moment" (Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim) – 3:59
  7. "Then Was Then and Now Is Now" (Cy Coleman, Peggy Lee) – 3:05
  8. "Sweet Lorraine" (Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish) – 3:39
  9. "The Right to Love" (Gene Lees, Lalo Schifrin) – 3:41
  10. "Watch What Happens" (Jacques Demy, Gimbel, Michel Legrand) – 2:57
  11. "All My Tomorrows" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:19
  12. "Two by Two" (Martin Charnin, Rodgers) – 3:25

Performance

  • Tony Bennett – vocals
  • Al Cohn - tenor sax (#1-3, 9)
  • Joe Marsala - clarinet (#8)
  • Ralph Sharon - piano
  • Carlos Lyra - guitar (#1)
  • Bobby Hackett - ukulele (#8)
  • Hal Gaylor - bass
  • William "Billy" Exiner, Elcio Milito (#1 only) - drums
  • Don Costa – arranger, conductor
  • Songs

    1Song of the Jet3:48
    2Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)4:13
    3How Insensitive4:26

    References

    If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set Wikipedia