Tony Sings for Two

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Tony Sings for Two
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 6, 1961 [1]
RecordedOctober 28, 1959
Studio CBS 30th Street Studio, New York
Genre Vocal jazz
Length33:35
Label Columbia
CL 1446
CS 8242
Producer Mitch Miller
Tony Bennett chronology
To My Wonderful One
(1960)
Tony Sings for Two
(1961)
Alone Together
(1961)
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Tony Sings for Two is a 1961 studio album by Tony Bennett, accompanied by the pianist Ralph Sharon. With Bill Evans, Bennett would make two further albums accompanied by solo piano. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 1:24
  2. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:30
  3. "Nobody's Heart" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:08
  4. "I'm Thru with Love" (Gus Kahn, Fud Livingston, Matty Malneck) – 3:15
  5. "My Funny Valentine" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:36
  6. "The Man That Got Away" (Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin) – 3:52
  7. "Where or When" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:09
  8. "A Sleepin' Bee" (Arlen, Truman Capote) – 3:23
  9. "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" (Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 2:20
  10. "Mam'selle" (Mack Gordon, Edmund Goulding) – 2:40
  11. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) – 1:36
  12. "Street of Dreams" (Lewis, Victor Young) – 2:11
  13. "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) – 2:31 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

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