To My Wonderful One

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To My Wonderful One
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Studio album by
Tony Bennett
ReleasedFebruary 1960 [1]
RecordedOctober 23 & November 10–12, 1959
Studio CBS 30th Street (New York City)
Genre Vocal jazz
Length38:23
Label Columbia
CL 1429
CS 8226
Producer Mitch Miller
Tony Bennett chronology
Hometown, My Town
(1959)		To My Wonderful One
(1960)		 Tony Sings for Two
(1961)
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To My Wonderful One is an album by American singer Tony Bennett. It was originally recorded in 1959 and released in 1960 on Columbia as CL 1429.

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. "Wonderful One" – (Paul Whiteman, Ferde Grofé, Theodora Morse, Marshall Neilan) – 3:17
  2. "Till" (Charles Danvers, Carl Sigman) – 3:00
  3. "September Song" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) – 3:53
  4. "Suddenly" (Dorcas Cochran, Richard Heuberger) – 3:07
  5. "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf, Joel S. Herron) – 3:21
  6. "We Mustn't Say Goodbye" (Al Dubin, James V. Monaco) – 3:15
  7. "Autumn Leaves" (Johnny Mercer, Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prevert) – 3:32
  8. "Laura" (Johnny Mercer, David Raksin) – 3:05
  9. "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E. Y. Harburg) – 2:34
  10. "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) – 2:48
  11. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:36
  12. "Last Night When We Were Young" (Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg) – 2:55

Recorded on October 23 (#6), November 10 (#1, 7–8, 11), November 11 (#2–3, 10) and November 12 (#4–5, 9, 12) 1959.

Personnel

Strings

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References

  1. ↑ Billboard Feb 22, 1960
  2. ↑ To My Wonderful One at AllMusic
  3. ↑ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
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