Tony Bennett on Holiday

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Tony Bennett on Holiday
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 4, 1997 [1]
RecordedJuly–November 1996
Genre Traditional pop
Label Columbia
Producer Tony Bennett, Danny Bennett, Phil Ramone
Tony Bennett chronology
Here's to the Ladies
(1995)
Tony Bennett on Holiday
(1997)
Tony Bennett: The Playground
(1998)
Professional ratings
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Tony Bennett on Holiday is a 1997 studio album by Tony Bennett, recorded in tribute to Billie Holiday. [3]

Contents

In 1998 Bennett won his fifth Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance for his work on this album.

The final track, "God Bless the Child", was an electronically created "duet" with the long-dead Lady Day and Count Basie; it received poor notices, unlike the rest of the album.

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. "(In My) Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 2:57
  2. "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 1:44
  3. "When a Woman Loves a Man" (Bernie Hanighen, Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Mercer) – 3:11
  4. "Me, Myself and I" (Irving Gordon, Alan Kaufman, Allan Roberts) – 2:05
  5. "She's Funny That Way (I Got a Woman, Crazy for Me)" (Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting) – 4:20
  6. "If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight)" (Henry Creamer, James P. Johnson) – 2:04
  7. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 3:00
  8. "Laughing at Life" (Nick A. Kenny, Charles Kenny, Cornell Todd, Bob Todd) – 3:26
  9. "I Wished on the Moon" (Dorothy Parker, Ralph Rainger) – 2:46
  10. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 2:45
  11. "My Old Flame" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) – 2:55
  12. "That Ole Devil Called Love" (Doris Fisher, Allan Roberts) – 4:00
  13. "Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:04
  14. "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 4:22
  15. "Some Other Spring" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Irene Kitchings) – 4:41
  16. "Crazy She Calls Me" (Bob Russell, Carl Sigman) – 3:53
  17. "Good Morning Heartache" (Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham) – 2:37
  18. "Trav'lin' Light" (Johnny Mercer, Trummy Young, Jimmy Mundy) – 2:33
  19. "God Bless the Child" (Herzog, Billie Holiday) – with Billie Holiday, Count Basie – 2:32

Personnel

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References

  1. "Tony Bennett On Holiday: A Tribute To Billie Holiday". Tonybennett.com. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  2. AllMusic review
  3. Tony Bennett on Holiday at AllMusic
  4. "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.