Tony Bennett - The Movie Song Album (1966/2014) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The Movie Song Album is a 1966 studio album by Tony Bennett. The album consists of songs from films, opening with the theme from The Oscar, in which Bennett had recently appeared. With this project of such high quality of song material and collaborators, he was to describe the album in his autobiography as his "all time favorite record".

Johnny Mandel was the musical director, and he and Neal Hefti and Quincy Jones arranged and conducted their own compositions on the album. Luiz Bonfá played the guitar on his two songs, "Samba de Orfeu" and "The Gentle Rain". The pianists Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Rowles and Lou Levy all collaborated, each on one song.

Bennett's recording of "The Shadow of Your Smile" won Mandel and Paul Francis Webster the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards of 1966, and Bennett performed the song at the 38th Academy Awards, where it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

TRACKLIST

01. Tony Bennett - Song from 'The Oscar' (Maybe September)
02. Tony Bennett - Girl Talk
03. Tony Bennett - The Gentle Rain
04. Tony Bennett - Emily
05. Tony Bennett - The Pawnbroker
06. Tony Bennett - Samba De Orfeo
07. Tony Bennett - The Shadow of Your Smile (Love Theme from "The Sandpiper")
08. Tony Bennett - Smile
09. Tony Bennett - The Second Time Around
10. Tony Bennett - Days of Wine and Roses
11. Tony Bennett - Never Too Late
12. Tony Bennett - The Trolley Song



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