A Time for Love (Tony Bennett album)

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A Time for Love
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ReleasedAugust 29, 1966
Recorded1960–66 in Los Angeles, London and New York City
Genre Vocal jazz
Length35:27
Label Columbia
CL 2560
CS 9360
Producer Ernie Altschuler
Tony Bennett chronology
The Movie Song Album
(1966)
A Time for Love
(1966)
Tony Makes It Happen
(1967)

A Time for Love is a 1966 compilation album by Tony Bennett made of unreleased material recorded between 1960 and 1966. [1]

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The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated October 8, of that year, and remained on the album chart for 18 weeks, peaking at No. 68 [2]

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. [3]

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Track listing

  1. "A Time for Love" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) – 3:22
  2. "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) – 4:34
  3. "Trapped in the Web of Love" (Jeanne Burns) – 3:20
  4. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:06
  5. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 3:17
  6. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) – 3:02
  7. "Georgia Rose" (Jimmy Flynn, Harry Rosenthal, Alex Sullivan) – 2:54
  8. "The Shining Sea" (Mandel, Peggy Lee) – 2:50
  9. "Sleepy Time Gal" (Richard A. Whiting, Raymond B. Egan, Joseph R. Alden, Ange Lorenzo) – 3:46
  10. "Touch the Earth" (Jeri Southern) – 2:10
  11. "I'll Only Miss Her When I Think of Her" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:06

Personnel

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References

  1. A Time for Love at AllMusic
  2. 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.
  3. "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.