Here's to the Ladies

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Here's to the Ladies
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Studio album by
Tony Bennett
ReleasedOctober 24, 1995 [1]
RecordedMarch–July 1995
Genre Vocal jazz
Length67:17
Label Columbia
Producer David Kahne
Tony Bennett chronology
MTV Unplugged
(1995)		Here's to the Ladies
(1995)		 Tony Bennett on Holiday
(1997)

Here's to the Ladies is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1995. [2]

Contents

The theme of the album was songs made famous by female singers. The album won Bennett the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance. [3] It peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Traditional Jazz Albums chart. [4]

On November 8, 2011, Sony Music Distribution included the CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection. [5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Entertainment Weekly A [7]
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Entertainment Weekly wrote that Bennett's "sensitivity to the distaff side of prerock music balances the craggy muscularity of his vocal style." [7]

Track listing

  1. "People" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) 4:44 – Barbra Streisand tribute
  2. "I'm in Love Again" (Peggy Lee, Cy Coleman) 3:52 – Peggy Lee tribute
  3. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) 3:59 – Judy Garland tribute
  4. "My Love Went to London" (T. Seibetta, John Wallowitch) 5:11 – Blossom Dearie tribute
  5. "Poor Butterfly" (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell) 5:43 – Sarah Vaughan tribute
  6. "Sentimental Journey" (Les Brown, Bud Green, Ben Homer) 3:29 – Doris Day tribute
  7. "Cloudy Morning" (Marvin Fisher, Joseph Allan McCarthy) 4:44 – Carmen McRae tribute
  8. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) 3:47 – Rosemary Clooney tribute
  9. "Down in the Depths (On the Ninetieth Floor)" (Cole Porter) 2:11 – Mabel Mercer tribute
  10. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) 2:53 – Margaret Whiting tribute
  11. "Tangerine" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) 4:06 – Helen O'Connell tribute
  12. "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) 2:51 – Billie Holiday tribute
  13. "Daybreak" (Harold Adamson, Ferde Grofé) 3:45 – Dinah Washington tribute
  14. "You Showed Me the Way" (Ella Fitzgerald, Green, Teddy McRae, Chick Webb) 5:31 – Ella Fitzgerald tribute
  15. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) 2:57 – Lena Horne tribute
  16. "Maybe This Time" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) 3:26 – Liza Minnelli tribute
  17. "I Got Rhythm" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) 2:01 – Ethel Merman tribute
  18. "My Ideal" (Newell Chase, Leo Robin, Richard Whiting) 1:55 – Margaret Whiting tribute

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Here's To The Ladies". tonybennett.com.
  2. ↑ "Tony Bennett Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  3. ↑ "Tony Bennett". Recording Academy. Retrieved May 19, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Tony Bennett". Billboard.
  5. ↑ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved October 8, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Here's to the Ladies – Tony Bennett | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  7. 1 2 "Here's to the Ladies". EW.com.
  8. ↑ "Album Reviews: Tony Bennett — Here's to the Ladies" (PDF). Music Week . Gwent: Pensord Press Ltd. October 28, 1995. p. 18. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 26, 2025. Retrieved May 6, 2025– via WorldRadioHistory.com.
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