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The Movie Song Album

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Released
  
January 31, 1966

Producer
  
Ernie Altschuler

Artist
  
Tony Bennett

Label
  
COLUMBIA

Length
  
37:04

The Movie Song Album (1966)
  
A Time for Love (1966)

Release date
  
31 January 1966

Genres
  
Jazz, Vocal jazz

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Recorded
  
September 26, 1965 (#7) December 14, 1965 (#2, 5, 11) CBS Studio A, Los Angeles December 27, 1965 (#1, 8-9) December 28, 1965 (#3-4, 6) December 29, 1965 (#10, 12) CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City

Similar
  
Tony Bennett albums, Vocal jazz albums

The Movie Song Album is a 1966 studio album by Tony Bennett. The album consists of songs from films, opening with the theme from The Oscar, in which Bennett had recently appeared. With this project of such high quality of song material and collaborators, he was to describe the album in his autobiography as his "all time favorite record".

Contents

Johnny Mandel was the musical director, and he and Neal Hefti and Quincy Jones arranged and conducted their own compositions on the album. Luiz Bonfá played the guitar on his two songs, "Samba de Orfeu" and "The Gentle Rain". The pianists Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Rowles and Lou Levy all collaborated, each on one song.

Bennett's recording of "The Shadow of Your Smile" won Mandel and Paul Francis Webster the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards of 1966, and Bennett performed the song at the 38th Academy Awards, where it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Track listing

  1. "Maybe September" (from The Oscar) (Ray Evans, Percy Faith, Jay Livingston) – 4:03
  2. "Girl Talk" (from Harlow) (Neal Hefti, Bobby Troup) – 3:14
  3. "The Gentle Rain" (from The Gentle Rain) (Luiz Bonfá, Matt Dubey) – 2:12
  4. "Emily" (from The Americanization of Emily) (Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer) – 3:25
  5. "The Pawnbroker" (from The Pawnbroker) (Quincy Jones, Lawrence) – 3:08
  6. "Samba de Orfeu" (from Black Orpheus) (Bonfá) – 2:08
  7. "The Shadow of Your Smile" (from The Sandpiper) (Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) – 3:38
  8. "Smile" (from Modern Times) (Charlie Chaplin, Geoffrey Claremont Parsons, John Turner) – 3:34
  9. "The Second Time Around" (from The Second Time Around) (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:44
  10. "Days of Wine and Roses" (from Days of Wine and Roses) (Henry Mancini, Mercer) – 2:58
  11. "Never Too Late" (from Never Too Late) (Evans, Livingston, Rose) – 3:25
  12. "The Trolley Song" (from Meet Me in St. Louis) (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 2:35

Performance

  • Tony Bennett - vocals
  • Neal Hefti, Quincy Jones, Johnny Mandel, David Rose - arranger, conductor
  • Larry Wilcox, Al Cohn - arranger
  • Tommy Flanagan, Lou Levy, Jimmy Rowles - piano
  • Luiz Bonfá - guitar
  • Zoot Sims - tenor sax (on track 12)

    • Songs

    1Song From the Oscar4:03
    2Girl Talk3:14
    3The Gentle Rain2:13

    References

    The Movie Song Album Wikipedia
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