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Tony Bennett Album - I Left My Heart In San Fransisco / I Wanna Be Around
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Release Date:1994-01-01
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Type:Compilation
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Genre:Classic Vocal Standards
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Label:Columbia
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Explicit Lyrics:No
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UPC:5099747759222
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Review - AMG :
Along with his producer, Ernest Altschuler, and his arranger/pianist Ralph Sharon, Tony Bennett had been searching for a repertoire and a musical approach beyond his long-gone pop work with Mitch Miller of the early 1950s and his artistically pleasing but commercially dicey jazz work of the mid- to late '50s. It seemed to be a combination of Broadway songs and other contemporary material, carefully selected and arranged to show off Bennett's now-burnished vocals. With this album, they found the key, not only by happening across a signature song in the title track, but also in the approach to songs like "Once Upon a Time" and "The Best Is Yet to Come," which Bennett helped make a standard. I Wanna Be Around, also on this two-fer, had a lot to live up to, but since San Francisco was a culmination of Bennett's development, not a fluke, I Wanna Be Around turned out to be almost on a par with its predecessor. "The Good Life" and "I Wanna Be Around" became Top 20 hits, showing that Bennett had somehow found a line into good new pop material. A worthy successor. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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