Alone Together (Tony Bennett album)

Alone Together
Studio album by
Tony Bennett
ReleasedJuly 11, 1961
RecordedFebruary 28 – March 1, 1960
StudioCBS 30th Street (New York City)
GenreVocal jazz
Length42:10
LabelColumbia
CL 1471
CS 8262
Tony Bennett chronology
Tony Sings for Two
(1961) 		Alone Together
(1961) 		Sings a String of Harold Arlen
(1961)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
New Record Mirror4/5[1]

Alone Together is an album by American singer Tony Bennett. It was originally released in 1961 on Columbia as CL 1471. It almost exclusively features string arrangements of standards, with a choir, harp accompaniment and sparse percussion in places. It is among the most obscure Bennett recordings. So far, it has been released on CD only in Japan by Sony/CBS.

On November 8, 2011, Sony Music Distribution included the CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection.[2]

Track listing

  1. "Alone Together" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) – 3:07
  2. "This Is All I Ask" (Gordon Jenkins) – 4:12
  3. "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 3:37
  4. "Walk in the Country" (Bart Howard) – 3:46
  5. "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" (Harry Carroll, Joseph McCarthy) – 2:46
  6. "Poor Butterfly" (Raymond Hubbell, John Golden) – 3:41
  7. "After You've Gone" (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) – 3:57
  8. "Gone With the Wind" (Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson) – 3:34
  9. "It's Magic" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:17
  10. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:52
  11. "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Mitchell Parish, Irving Mills) – 3:00
  12. "For Heaven's Sake" (Elise Bretton, Sherwin Edwards, Don Meyer) – 3:21

Recorded on February 28 (#1, 5, 11), February 29 (#6, 7–8, 10, 12) and March 1 (#2–4, 9), 1960.

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "Tony Bennett: Alone Together" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 23. 19 August 1961. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  2. ^ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.


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