Steppin' Out (Tony Bennett album)

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Steppin' Out
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 5, 1993 [1]
RecordedMarch-July 1993
Genre Vocal jazz
Label Columbia
Producer David Kahne
Tony Bennett chronology
Perfectly Frank
(1992)
Steppin' Out
(1993)
MTV Unplugged
(1994)
Professional ratings
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Steppin' Out is an album by Tony Bennett released in 1993. A tribute to Fred Astaire, the album continued Bennett's commercial comeback; like the previous year's Perfectly Frank , it achieved gold record status in the United States. In 1994, it won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance. A music video for "Steppin' Out with My Baby" received airplay on MTV.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Steppin' Out with My Baby" (Irving Berlin) – 2:53
  2. "Who Cares?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:17
  3. "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" (Berlin) – 2:38
  4. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:36
  5. "Dancing in the Dark" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 3:23
  6. "A Shine on Your Shoes" (Dietz, Schwartz) – 2:22
  7. "He Loves and She Loves" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:30
  8. "They All Laughed" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:14
  9. "I Concentrate on You" (Cole Porter) – 3:03
  10. "You're All The World to Me" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) – 3:08
  11. "All of You" (Porter) – 3:35
  12. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:51
  13. "It Only Happens When I Dance With You" (Berlin) – 2:11
  14. "Shall We Dance?" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 1:33
  15. "You're Easy to Dance With"/"Change Partners"/"Cheek to Cheek" (Berlin) – 4:38
  16. "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" (Dietz, Schwartz) – 2:46
  17. "That's Entertainment!" (Dietz, Schwartz) – 2:01
  18. "By Myself" (Dietz, Schwartz) – 2:09

Personnel

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References

  1. Tony Bennett.com
  2. Swenson, John, ed. (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. p. 58.