MTV Unplugged (Tony Bennett album)

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MTV Unplugged
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Live album by
Tony Bennett
ReleasedJune 28, 1994 (1994-06-28)
RecordedApril 15, 1994
VenueSony Studios, New York City
Genre Vocal jazz
Length70:35
Label Columbia
Producer David Kahne
Tony Bennett chronology
Steppin' Out
(1993)		MTV Unplugged
(1994)		 Here's to the Ladies
(1995)
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MTV Unplugged is a live album by Tony Bennett that was released in 1994. Backed by the Ralph Sharon Trio, Bennett appeared on the TV show MTV Unplugged to showcase the Great American Songbook with guest appearances by Elvis Costello and k.d. lang. [2]

Contents

The album reached platinum record status in the United States and won Grammy Awards in 1995 for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance and Album of the Year. [3]

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. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Old Devil Moon" (E.Y. Harburg, Burton Lane) – 2:28
  2. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) – 3:10
  3. "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 3:13
  4. "I Love a Piano" (Irving Berlin) – 1:56
  5. "It Amazes Me" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 3:08
  6. "The Girl I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:59
  7. "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" (Bart Howard) – 2:57
  8. "You're All the World to Me" (Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) – 2:15
  9. "Rags to Riches" (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) – 1:23
  10. "When Joanna Loved Me" (Jack Segal, Robert Wells) – 3:15
  11. "The Good Life"/"I Wanna Be Around" (Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon)/(Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt) – 3:21
  12. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (George Cory, Douglass Cross) – 2:33
  13. "Steppin' Out with My Baby" (Irving Berlin) – 3:12
  14. "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills) – 4:33 (with k.d. lang)
  15. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:26 (with Elvis Costello)
  16. "A Foggy Day" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:15
  17. "All of You" (Cole Porter) – 2:35
  18. "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 3:53
  19. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Mills) – 3:37
  20. "Autumn Leaves"/"Indian Summer" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert)/(Al Dubin, Victor Herbert) – 5:49

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for MTV Unplugged
Chart (1994–1995)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [5] 11
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [6] 23
US Billboard 200 [7] 48
US Top Jazz Albums (Billboard) [8] 1

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References

  1. ↑ Swenson, John, ed. (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. p. 58.
  2. ↑ Ruhlmann, William. "MTV Unplugged". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "MTV Unplugged – Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  4. ↑ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  5. ↑ "Australiancharts.com – Tony Bennett – Unplugged". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Charts.nz – Tony Bennett – Unplugged". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Tony Bennett Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Tony Bennett Chart History (Top Jazz Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
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