| Tenderly | ||||
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| Released | 1989 | |||
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| Length | 38:31 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros | |||
| Producer | Tommy LiPuma | |||
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Tenderly is a 1989 studio album by George Benson, produced by long time collaborator Tommy LiPuma.
| Tenderly | ||||
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| Released | 1989 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 38:31 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros | |||
| Producer | Tommy LiPuma | |||
| George Benson chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Tenderly | ||||
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Tenderly is a 1989 studio album by George Benson, produced by long time collaborator Tommy LiPuma.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  [2] |
In a review for AllMusic, Richard S. Ginell wrote that Benson has gotten the message by "giving up the fruitless search for decent contemporary material, he switched gears and recorded an album of old standards with top-grade jazz musicians". [1]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "You Don't Know What Love Is" | Don Raye, Gene de Paul | 4:39 |
| 2. | "Stella by Starlight" | Ned Washington, Victor Young | 5:13 |
| 3. | "Stardust" | Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish | 6:02 |
| 4. | "At the Mambo Inn" | Frederick Lincoln-Guirty, Bobby Woodlen, Grace Sampson, Mario Bauzá | 4:53 |
| 5. | "Here, There and Everywhere" | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 5:04 |
| 6. | "This Is All I Ask" | Gordon Jenkins | 5:35 |
| 7. | "Tenderly" | Jack Lawrence, Walter Gross | 3:05 |
| 8. | "I Could Write a Book" | Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart | 4:00 |
Musicians: [3]
| Chart (1989) | Peak position |
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| US Billboard 200 [4] | 140 |
| US Jazz Albums [5] | 1 |
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