I've Gotta Be Me (Tony Bennett album)

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I've Gotta Be Me
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ReleasedEarly August 1969 [1]
RecordedNovember 25, 1968 (#6, 8)
January 17, 1969 (#2, 11)
February 25, 1969 (#4, 7, 10)
March 27, 1969 (#1, 3, 5, 9)
CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City
Genre Vocal jazz
Length36:10
Label Columbia
CS 9882
Producer Jimmy Wisner
Tony Bennett chronology
Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album
(1968)
I've Gotta Be Me
(1969)
Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today!
(1970)

I've Gotta Be Me is an album by American singer Tony Bennett, [2] originally released in 1969 on Columbia as CS 9882.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "I've Gotta Be Me" (Walter Marks) - 2:54
  2. "Over the Sun" (Jamie Moran Aguirre, Arturo Castro) - 2:50
  3. "Play It Again, Sam" (Hal Hackady, Larry Grossman) - 3:43
  4. "Alfie" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 3:21
  5. "What the World Needs Now Is Love" (Bacharach, David) - 2:44
  6. "Baby Don't You Quit Now" (Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Rowles) - 2:50
  7. "That Night" (Norman Gimbel, Lalo Schifrin) - 3:17
  8. "They All Laughed" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:44
  9. "A Lonely Place" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) - 3:50
  10. "Whoever You Are, I Love You" (Bacharach, David) - 4:20
  11. "(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls" (André Previn, Dory Previn) - 3:37

Personnel

Strings

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