To My Wonderful One

To My Wonderful One
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1960[1]
RecordedOctober 23 & November 10–12, 1959
StudioCBS 30th Street (New York City)
GenreVocal jazz
Length38:23
LabelColumbia
CL 1429
CS 8226
ProducerMitch Miller
Tony Bennett chronology
Hometown, My Town
(1959)
To My Wonderful One
(1960)
Tony Sings for Two
(1961)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [2]

To My Wonderful One is an album by American singer Tony Bennett. It was originally recorded in 1959 and released in 1960 on Columbia as CL 1429.

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.[3]

Track listing

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  1. "Wonderful One" – (Paul Whiteman, Ferde Grofé, Theodora Morse, Marshall Neilan) – 3:17
  2. "Till" (Charles Danvers, Carl Sigman) – 3:00
  3. "September Song" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) – 3:53
  4. "Suddenly" (Dorcas Cochran, Richard Heuberger) – 3:07
  5. "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf, Joel S. Herron) – 3:21
  6. "We Mustn't Say Goodbye" (Al Dubin, James V. Monaco) – 3:15
  7. "Autumn Leaves" (Johnny Mercer, Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prevert) – 3:32
  8. "Laura" (Johnny Mercer, David Raksin) – 3:05
  9. "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E. Y. Harburg) – 2:34
  10. "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) – 2:48
  11. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:36
  12. "Last Night When We Were Young" (Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg) – 2:55

Recorded on October 23 (#6), November 10 (#1, 7–8, 11), November 11 (#2–3, 10) and November 12 (#4–5, 9, 12) 1959.

Personnel

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Strings

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  • Seymour Barab, Maurice Bialkin, David Soyer – violoncello
  • Rudolph Bocheo, Al Breuning, Fred Buldrini, Max Cahn, Alexander Cores, Arnold Eidus, James A. Grasso, Emanuel Green, Leo Kahn, Harry Katzman, Leo Kruczek, George Ockner, Samuel Rand, A. Rudnitzky, Tosha Samoroff, D. Sarcer, Julius Schachter, Maurice Wilk, Paul Winter, Harry Zarief, Jack Zayde – violin
  • Sidney Brecher, Richard Dickler – viola

References

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  1. ^ Billboard Feb 22, 1960
  2. ^ To My Wonderful One at AllMusic
  3. ^ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.