My Heart Sings (album)

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My Heart Sings
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1, 1961 [1]
RecordedApril 4–6, 1961
Studio CBS 30th Street (New York City)
Genre Vocal jazz
Length34:20
Label Columbia
CL 1658
CS 8458
Tony Bennett chronology
Sings a String of Harold Arlen
(1961)
My Heart Sings
(1961)
Mr. Broadway: Tony's Greatest Broadway Hits
(1962)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
New Record Mirror 3/5 [2]

My Heart Sings is an album by American singer Tony Bennett. It was recorded in 1961 and released the same year on Columbia as CL 1658. So far, it has been released on CD only in Japan by Sony/CBS.

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. [3]

Track listing

  1. "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:00
  2. "Dancing in the Dark" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) – 2:32
  3. "I'm Coming Virginia" (Will Cook, Donald Heywood) – 2:58
  4. "(All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings" (Harold Rome, Jean Marie Blanvillain, Henry Herpin) – 3:16
  5. "It Never Was You" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) – 3:04
  6. "You Took Advantage of Me" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:25
  7. "Close Your Eyes" (Bernice Petkere) – 2:20
  8. "Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 2:26
  9. "More Than You Know" (Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans, Edward Eliscu) – 3:40
  10. "My Ship" (Ira Gershwin, Weill) – 3:10
  11. "Lover Man" (Roger Ramirez, Jimmy Davis, Jimmy Sherman) – 3:35
  12. "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goodbye)" (Ted Fiorito, Ernie Erdman, Dan Russo, Gus Kahn) – 1:54

Recorded on April 4 (#1, 3–4, 6, 9, 11), April 5 (#7, 12) and April 6 (#2, 5, 8, 10), 1961.

Personnel

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References

  1. Billboard Aug 21, 1961
  2. Watson, Jimmy (28 October 1961). "Tony Bennett: My Heart Sings" (PDF). New Record Mirror . No. 33. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  3. "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.