Yesterday I Heard the Rain

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Yesterday I Heard the Rain
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Studio album by
Tony Bennett
ReleasedJuly 22, 1968
Genre Vocal jazz
Length33:43
Label Columbia
Producer Howard A. Roberts
Tony Bennett chronology
For Once in My Life
(1967)		Yesterday I Heard the Rain
(1968)		 Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album
(1968)
Singles from Yesterday I Heard the Rain
  1. "Fool of Fools"
    Released: February 14, 1968
  2. "Yesterday I Heard the Rain"
    Released: April 1, 1968
  3. "Hushabye Mountain"
    Released: June 21, 1968

Yesterday I Heard the Rain is a studio album by American singer Tony Bennett, released on July 22, 1968, on Columbia Records. [1] It features a mix of originals and covers songs of "Love Is Here to Stay", "I Only Have Eyes for You", and "There Will Never Be Another You" [2] and includes the singles "A Fool of Fools", the title track, "Yesterday I Heard the Rain", and "Hushabye Mountain". [1]

Contents

Tony Tamburello was the musical director, while Torrie Zito arranged and conducted their own compositions on the album. Corky Hale played the harp, John Bunch played the piano, with Milt Hinton on bass and Sol Gubin on drums. [3]

On November 8, 2011, Sony Music Distribution included the album in a CD box set entitled The Complete Collection. [4]

Reception

Billboard believed "The arrangements and orchestrations by Tonle Zito are rich and beautifully lush, and lend the perfect touch to Bennett's smooth style". [5] Cash Box described the album as a "warm, romantic fashion" and stated that "'The title song', 'Love Is Here to Stay', 'I Only Have Eyes For You', and 'There Will Never Be Another You' are standout efforts." [6] In its Album Pick of the Week section, Record World said "Bennett sings beautifully" on the album which contains a mix of "juicy and lush ballads and uptempo numbers". [7] Variety claimed "The rest of this songalog is a solid mix of oldies and recents ballads". [8]

In a Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Will Friedwald believed the album was "terrific" but like Bennett's other albums from the late 1960s, it did not measure up to his "earlier long-playing projects." [9]

Singles

"A Fool of Fools" bubbled under the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the issue dated March 18, 1968, peaking at number 119, [10] reached number 12 on the magazine's Easy Listening chart. [11] and peaked at number 95 on the Cash Box singles chart. [12] "Yesterday I Heard the Rain" spent two weeks on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart in the issue dated April 28, 1968, peaking at number 130, [10] and reached number ten on the magazine's Easy Listening chart. [11]

Track listing

Side one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Yesterday I Heard the Rain" Armando Manzanero, Gene Lees 3:42
2."Hi-Ho" George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin 4:42
3."Hushabye Mountain" (from the UA release: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ) Robert Sherman, Richard Sherman 3:16
4."Home Is the Place" Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim 2:44
5."Love Is Here to Stay" (from the UA release: The Goldwyn Follies ) George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin 2:43
6."Get Happy" (from the Broadway musical: Nine-Fifteen Revue) Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen 2:24

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Fool of Fools" Joseph Meyer, Mann Curtis 2:43
2."I Only Have Eyes for You" (from the Warner Bros. Pictures film: Dames ) Harry Warren, Al Dubin 2:36
3."Sweet Georgie Fame" Blossom Dearie, Sandra Harris3:47
4."Only the Young"Richard Ahlert, Fred Ahlert 3:12
5."There Will Never Be Another You" (from the 20th Century Fox Picture: Iceland ) Harry Warren, Mack Gordon 1:54

Personnel

Charts

Singles
YearSingleChartPeak position
1968"Fool of Fools"US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 [10] 119
US Billboard Easy Listening [11] 12
US Cash Box Top 100 [13] 95
"Yesterday I Heard the Rain"US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 [10] 130
US Billboard Easy Listening [11] 10

References

  1. 1 2 "Yesterday I Heard the Rain is released". www.tonybennett.com. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
  2. ↑ Bennett, Tony (1999). The Good Life: The Autobiography of Tony Bennett. New York, New York; London, England: Simon and Schuster. p. 284. ISBN   978-0-6710-2958-6.
  3. 1 2 "Yesterday I Heard the Rain". The Interactive Tony Bennett Discography. 2014-09-11. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
  4. ↑ "Tony Bennett – The Complete Collection". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  5. ↑ "Pop Spotlight: Yesterday I Heard The Rain" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 80, no. 33. August 17, 1968. p. 73.
  6. ↑ "Cashbox Album Pop Picks Reviews". Cash Box . Vol. 30, no. 2. August 24, 1968. p. 32.
  7. ↑ "Album Reviews: Albums Picks of The Week" (PDF). Record World . Vol. 23, no. 1007. August 24, 1968. p. 1. Retrieved May 25, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Variety Record Reviews: Hendrix, Bobby Darin, Simone, Bennett, Joanna, Lipton, Berry, Paupers, Forum Quorum Top LPs". Variety . Vol. 252, no. 8. October 9, 1968. p. 50.
  9. ↑ Friedwald, Will (2010). A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers. Pantheon Books. p. 45. ISBN   978-0-3754-2149-5.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Whitburn, Joel (1982). Joel Whitburn's Bubbling under the hot 100, 1959-1981. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research. p. 16. ISBN   978-0-8982-0047-8.
  11. 1 2 3 4 Whitburn, Joel (2007). Joel Whitburn presents Billboard top adult songs, 1961-2006. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.: Record Research. p. 24. ISBN   978-0-89820-169-7.
  12. ↑ Downey, Pat (1994). Cash box pop singles charts, 1950-1993. Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited. pp. 24–25. ISBN   1-56308-316-7.
  13. ↑ "Cash Box Top 100" (PDF). Cash Box . Vol. XXIX, no. 33. March 16, 1968. p. 4. Retrieved August 23, 2025– via worldradiohistory.com.
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