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Released
  
June 28, 1994

Artist
  
Tony Bennett

Producer
  
David Kahne

Label
  
Columbia CK 66214

Release date
  
28 June 1994

Genres
  
Jazz, Vocal jazz

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Recorded
  
April 15, 1994, Sony Studios, New York City, New York

MTV Unplugged Tony Bennett (1994)
  
Here's to the Ladies (1995)

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Similar
  
Tony Bennett albums, Vocal jazz albums

MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett is a live album by Tony Bennett, released in 1994.

Contents

Backed by his usual Ralph Sharon Trio, Bennett appeared on MTV Unplugged, which despite being a superfluous platform ("I've always been unplugged," Bennett noted), showcased the Great American Songbook. Rock stars Elvis Costello and k.d. lang made guest appearances.

The album reached platinum record status in the United States and won the 1995 Grammy Awards for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance and Album of the Year.

Track listing

  1. "Old Devil Moon" (E.Y. Harburg, Burton Lane) - 2:28
  2. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) - 3:10
  3. "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) - 3:13
  4. "I Love a Piano" (Irving Berlin) - 1:56
  5. "It Amazes Me" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 3:08
  6. "The Girl I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:59
  7. "Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) - 2:57
  8. "You're All the World to Me" (Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) - 2:15
  9. "Rags to Riches" (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) - 1:23
  10. "When Joanna Loved Me" (Jack Segal, Robert Wells) - 3:15
  11. "The Good Life"/"I Wanna Be Around" (Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon)/(Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstadt) - 3:21
  12. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (George Cory, Douglass Cross) - 2:35
  13. "Steppin' Out with My Baby" (Berlin) - 3:12
  14. "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills) - 4:33 (with kd lang)
  15. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 3:26 (with Elvis Costello)
  16. "A Foggy Day" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 2:15
  17. "All of You" (Cole Porter) - 2:35
  18. "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) - 3:53
  19. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Mills) - 3:37
  20. "Autumn Leaves"/"Indian Summer" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert)/(Al Dubin, Victor Herbert) - 5:49

Personnel

  • Tony Bennett - vocals
  • Ralph Sharon - piano
  • Doug Richeson - double bass
  • Clayton Cameron - drums

    • Songs

    1Old Devil Moon2:29
    2Speak Low3:10
    3It Had to Be You3:13

    References

    MTV Unplugged (Tony Bennett album) Wikipedia
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