A Wonderful World (Tony Bennett and k.d. lang album)

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A Wonderful World
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 5, 2002 (2002-11-05)
RecordedMarch 2002 [1]
StudioJohn Harms Theatre (remotely recorded to Bennett Studios)
Genre Jazz
Label Columbia
Producer T Bone Burnett, Danny Bennett
Tony Bennett chronology
The Essential Tony Bennett
(2002)
A Wonderful World
(2002)
The Art of Romance
(2004)
k.d. lang chronology
Live by Request
(2001)
A Wonderful World
(2002)
Hymns of the 49th Parallel
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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A Wonderful World is an album by Tony Bennett and k.d. lang released in 2002.

Contents

It later won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. In the U.S., the album achieved gold record status, and reached top 40 in the UK.

On November 8, 2011, Sony Music Distribution included the CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection. [3]

Track listing

  1. "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh)  – 3:17
  2. "La Vie en Rose" (Mack David, Louiguy, Edith Piaf)  – 3:23
  3. "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (Doc Dougherty, Al J. Neiburg, Ellis Reynolds)  – 4:46
  4. "You Can Depend on Me" (Charles Carpenter, Carl M. Dunlap, Earl Hines)  – 3:00
  5. "What a Wonderful World" (Robert Thiele, George David Weiss)  – 3:23
  6. "That's My Home" (Otis Rene, Leon Rene)  – 3:05
  7. "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby)  – 3:25 (k.d. lang solo)
  8. "I Wonder" (Cecil Gant, Raymond Leveen)  – 3:49
  9. "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Fabian Andre, Gus Kahn, Wilbur Schwandt)  – 3:52
  10. "You Can't Lose a Broken Heart" (James P. Johnson, Eddie Miller)  – 3:14
  11. "That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)" (Haven Gillespie, Beasley Smith)  – 4:36 (k.d. lang solo)
  12. "If We Never Meet Again" (Louis Armstrong, Horace Gerlach)  – 3:52

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [15] Platinum70,000^
Canada (Music Canada) [16] Gold50,000^
United States (RIAA) [17] Gold500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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