Tony Bennett - Songs For The Jet Set (If I Ruled The World) (1965) - VINYL, MONO - 24-bit/96kHz plus CD-compatible format

My fave "Sweet Lorraine". A solid outing from Mr. B.

Richard Rogers and Sondheim? Huh?

And try not to sing the last few bars "If I Ruled The World" along with Tony. I dare you. You'll want to do it, and you WILL do it. On a couple of songs you'd swear that the Ray Charles Singers are chiming in unnessecarily. But what are ya gonna do?

Enjoy, please.


From allmusic:
Review by William Ruhlmann
"Employing Sinatra arranger Don Costa, Tony Bennett put together a concept album similar to Sinatra's Come Fly With Me. Travel was the loose theme that united Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Song Of The Jet" (set in Rio de Janeiro, a photograph of which graces the album cover), "Fly Me To The Moon," and the title song, a Leslie Bricusse-Cyril Ornadel tune from the show Pickwick that was Bennett's latest hit single. There were also two songs from the Richard Rodgers-Stephen Sondheim musical Do I Hear A Waltz?, which was set in Venice. Other sections might not justify the flight theme–Duke Ellington's "Love Scene" was given a "destination" of Harlem on the back cover, and that neighborhood is on no known flight plan–but with such high-quality material, it was hard to complain."



04:00 01/04/1965 CO 85137 Take The Moment (Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim)
03:00 01/04/1965 CO 85136 If I Ruled The World (Leslie Bricusse, Cyril Ornadel)
02:58 01/04/1965 CO 85138 Watch What Happens (Norman Gimbel, Michel LeGrand, Jacques Demy)
03:42 02/18/1965 CO 85436 The Right To Love (Gene Lees, Lalo Schifrin)
03:05 02/18/1965 CO 85435 Then Was Then (Cy Coleman, Peggy Lee)
04:24 02/18/1965 CO 85437 How Insensitive (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius DeMoraes, Norman Gimbel)
03:37 02/19/1965 CCO 6634 Sweet Lorraine (Mitchell Parish, Cliff Burwell)
03:27 02/19/1965 CO 85440 Two By Two (Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim)
03:20 02/19/1965 CO 85442 All My Tomorrows (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen)
02:34 02/19/1965 CO 85441 Love Scene (Duke Ellington)
03:36 02/19/1965 CO 85439 Song Of The Jet (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
04:00 02/18/1965 CO 85438 Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) (Bart Howard)

Tony Bennett (ldr), Don Costa (con, a), Al Cohn (ts), Bobby Hackett (t), Joe Marsala (cl), Carlos Lyra (g), Hal Gaylor (b), Ralph Sharon (p), William Exiner, Elcio Milito (d), Tony Bennett (v)



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