If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set

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If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set
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Studio album by
Tony Bennett
ReleasedApril 19, 1965 [1]
RecordedJanuary 4, 1965 (#4, 6, 10)
February 18, 1965 (#3, 7, 9)
February 19, 1965 (#1–2, 5, 8, 11–12)
Studio Columbia 30th Street (New York City)
Genre Jazz
Length41:35
Label Columbia
CL 2343
CS 9143
Producer Ernie Altschuler
Tony Bennett chronology
Who Can I Turn To
(1964)		If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set
(1965)		 The Movie Song Album
(1966)
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If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set is a 1965 studio album by Tony Bennett, arranged by Don Costa. Bennett dedicated his recording of "Sweet Lorraine" on the album to Nat "King" Cole, who had died a month before the album's release. [4]

Contents

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated May 22, 1965, and remained on the chart for 22 weeks, peaking at No. 47 [5] it also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated May 15, of that year, and remained on the chart for 17 weeks, peaking at No. 32 [6]

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. [7]

Track listing

  1. "Samba do Avião" ("Song of the Jet") (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Gene Lees) – 3:34
  2. "Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) – 4:00
  3. "How Insensitive" (Vinicius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel, Jobim) – 4:23
  4. "If I Ruled the World" (Leslie Bricusse, Cyril Ornadel) – 3:00
  5. "Love Scene" (Marshall Barer, Duke Ellington) – 2:33
  6. "Take the Moment" (Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim) – 3:59
  7. "Then Was Then and Now Is Now" (Cy Coleman, Peggy Lee) – 3:05
  8. "Sweet Lorraine" (Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish) – 3:39
  9. "The Right to Love" (Gene Lees, Lalo Schifrin) – 3:41
  10. "Watch What Happens" (Jacques Demy, Gimbel, Michel Legrand) – 2:57
  11. "All My Tomorrows" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:19
  12. "Two by Two" (Rodgers, Sondheim) – 3:25

Personnel

Performance

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References

  1. ↑ Tony Bennett.com
  2. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r24547
  3. ↑ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (11 September 1965). "Tony Bennett: Songs For The Jet Set" (PDF). Record Mirror . No. 235. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  4. ↑ If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set at AllMusic
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 28. ISBN   0-8108-2005-6.
  7. ↑ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.


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