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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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 CBS 30th Street Studio, 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

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