When Lights Are Low (Tony Bennett album)

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When Lights Are Low
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Studio album by
Tony Bennett
ReleasedApril 20, 1964 [1]
RecordedMarch 26, 1964 (#1–5, 9–12)
March 27, 1964 (#6–7)
February 26, 1964 (#8, 13–15)
Studio
Genre Vocal jazz
Length37:20
Label Columbia
CS 8975
Producer Ernie Altschuler
Tony Bennett chronology
The Many Moods of Tony
(1964)		When Lights Are Low
(1964)		 Who Can I Turn To?
(1965)

When Lights Are Low is a 1964 studio album by Tony Bennett. [2]

Contents

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated May 23, of that year, and remained on the album chart for 12 weeks, peaking at No. 78 [3] , it also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated May 23, of that year, and remained on the chart for in a total of 15 weeks, peaking at No. 29 [4]

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. [5]

Track listing

  1. "Nobody Else but Me" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:56
  2. "When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter, Spencer Williams) – 4:57
  3. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) – 4:02
  4. "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Fats Waller, Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf) – 2:42
  5. "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" (Billy Mayhew) – 2:18
  6. "I've Got Just About Everything" (Bob Dorough) – 6:08
  7. "Judy" (Sammy Lerner, Hoagy Carmichael) – 3:00
  8. "Oh! You Crazy Moon" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:23
  9. "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) – 2:08
  10. "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 3:15
  11. "It Could Happen to You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 1:18
  12. "The Rules of the Road" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 2:13

Bonus tracks on CD reissue:

  2. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:43
  3. "All of You" (Cole Porter) – 2:17
  4. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine) – 2:44

Personnel

Performance

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References

  1. ↑ "When Lights Are Low". tonybennett.com. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
  2. ↑ When Lights Are Low at AllMusic
  3. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's top pop albums : 1955-1996 : compiled from Billboard magazine's pop album charts, 1955-1996. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 74. ISBN   978-0-8982-0117-8.
  4. ↑ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 28. ISBN   0-8108-2005-6.
  5. ↑ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved October 8, 2024.


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