Mr. Broadway: Tony's Greatest Broadway Hits

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Mr. Broadway: Tony Bennett's Greatest Broadway Hits
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Greatest hits album by
ReleasedMarch 1962 [1]
Recorded1953–1962
Genre Jazz
Label Columbia
Producer Ernest Altschuler
Tony Bennett chronology
My Heart Sings
(1961)
Mr. Broadway: Tony Bennett's Greatest Broadway Hits
(1962)
I Left My Heart in San Francisco
(1962)
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Mr. Broadway: Tony Bennett's Greatest Broadway Hits is a 1962 album by Tony Bennett.

Contents

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. "Stranger In Paradise" (from the 1953 Broadway musical Kismet ) (Alexander Borodin / George Forrest / Robert Wright)
  2. "Just In Time" (from the 1956 Broadway musical Bells Are Ringing ) (Jule Styne / Betty Comden / Adolph Green) – 2:36
  3. "Lazy Afternoon" (from the 1954 Broadway musical The Golden Apple ) (John Latouche / Jerome Moross)
  4. "Love Look Away" (from the 1958 Broadway musical Flower Drum Song ) (Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:45
  5. "The Party's Over" (from the 1956 Broadway musical Bells Are Ringing) (Styne / Comden / Green) – 3:06
  6. "You'll Never Get Away From Me" (from the 1959 musical Gyspy ) (Stephen Sondheim / Styne) – 2:07
  7. "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" (from the 1959 musical The Sound of Music ) (Rodgers / Hammerstein II) – 2:21
  8. "Begin the Beguine" (from the 1935 musical Jubilee (Cole Porter)
  9. "Baby, Talk to Me" (from the 1960 musical Bye Bye Birdie ) (Charles Strouse / Lee Adams)
  10. "Put On a Happy Face" (from the 1960 musical Bye Bye Birdie) (Strouse / Adams)
  11. "Follow Me" (from the 1960 musical Camelot ) (Alan Lerner / Frederick Loewe)
  12. "Comes Once in a Lifetime" (from the 1961 musical Subways Are For Sleeping ) (Styne / Comden / Green)

Personnel

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References

  1. Billboard Apr 7, 1962
  2. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r24556
  3. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 148. ISBN   9781846098567 . Retrieved 30 November 2024.
  4. "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.