Sings Rodgers & Hart Songs

Tony Bennett | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 2, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B00002MZ3G
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #442,470 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. This Can't Be Love

2. Blue Moon

3. The Lady Is a Tramp

4. Lover

5. Manhattan

6. Spring Is Here

7. Have You Met Miss Jones?

8. Isn't It Romantic?

9. Wait 'Til You See Her

10. I Could Write a Book

11. Thou Swell

12. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

13. There's a Small Hotel

14. I've Got Five Dollars

15. You Took Advantage of Me

16. I Wish I Were in Love Again

17. This Funny World

18. My Heart Stood Still

19. My Romance

20. Mountain Greenery

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What A Find!, November 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Sings Rodgers & Hart Songs (Audio CD)

This is a great CD! It takes its place along with In Person! as an absolutely essential Tony Bennett compact disc. The period from 1972 to 1985 was a sort of wilderness period for Mr. Bennett, having no steady recording label. He left/was dropped from Columbia around '72/'73 and did not return until 1986. Consequently his recorded output during those years is limited. But this disc is truly the tops! I would definitely take it to a desert island with me! I won't mention highlights because there is not a bad or mediocre track among the 20! If Rhino can uncover/release this obscurity, why can't Columbia/Sony release all of Tony Bennett's albums between 1954 and 1973 that are currently not on disc! Such as When Lights Are Low, Alone Together, etc. Tony Bennett is a living national treasure! His recorded work should be available in its entirety just as Frank Sinatra's is and Ella Fitzgerald's nearly is! I understand a handful of Mr. Bennett's albums are available on disc in Japan. If Amazon can import from Japan, they definitely should!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tony at his prime!, September 21, 2006

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G. Moore - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sings Rodgers & Hart Songs (Audio CD)

The album's merits have already been written about. I just want to address one of the previous reviewers that stated that Ella just sings the songs. I have several of her songs on my computer and let me tell you she Scoo-bots and Dee-Dabs through most of the songs. There is one recording that is a 5 minute song where literally 3 minutes and 15 seconds are her scatting, not singing a lick of lyrics. Bennet would never do that and certainly doesn't on this album. I find it pretty to the point singing, with his signature style.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars You've gotta LOVE Tony Bennett, December 30, 2003

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E. Lambeth (Paso Robles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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If you don't love Tony Bennett and you want to get a compilation of Rodgers and Hart sung by the same person, I'd turn your eyes and ears to Ella Fitzgerald's two disc set. Now THAT is fantastic! This is too loungy for me. Throughout every song, Bennett can't just sing the song. He has to give you a constant reminder that it's HIM singing.

Just how live versions of songs aren't nearly as good as studio recordings because the live versions always seem to have an annoying twist to a song that makes it hard to sing to, Tony Bennett does the same thing with this set.

I don't know if he's trying to make love to his audience or just lounge their ears, but he's definitely not just singing the songs. Ella Fitzgerald just sings the songs, and by doing so, with her voice and talent, sings their songs perfectly.

If you love it loungy and you're in love with Tony, well, here you go.