Tony Bennett - Ultimate Tony
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Artist: Tony BennettBrand: Ultimate
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-10-03
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- Because of You
- Rags to Riches
- Just in Time
- Stranger in Paradise
- The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- I Wanna Be Around
- The Good Life
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- Put on a Happy Face
- If I Ruled the World
- Smile
- Night and Day
- How Do You Keep the Music Playing?
- Mood Indigo
- Blue Velvet
- Steppin' Out With My Baby
- When Joanna Loved Me
- When Do the Bells Ring for Me
- The Best Is Yet to Come
Music reviews of Ultimate Tony
Music Review: Going from Rags to 5 Stars
Due to the fine contributions of my vast fan club, I was able to afford a 5 star restaurant for some fine cuisine. I took my seeress love Sondra to the world reknown Le Chateau de Penguin (named, I suppose, for the way the waiters look). We were seated immediately in the lush Iceberg Room, with beautiful paintings of lettuce on the walls. Awesome and stunning. And let's not forget the ice sculptures of Dr. Federick A. Cook and Admiral Robert E. Peary, at opposite ends of the center french provincial table that was home to the Louis the 14th crystal punch bowl. It was all pomp and atmosphere folks. Sort of like Metamorpho.After some amuse-bouches and apertifs, we settled down for the main course. She- la coq au vin and me- le boef bourguignon. To compliment this we had the finest chardonnay Boone's Farm makes - vintage 1999 - yes, made a century ago! You can't get better than this people.
Anyway, to go along with this pleasant evening, they had the background songs of Tony Bennett playing. I had almost forgotten about him although I believe he is (or was) a resident of my hometown. Anyway, I was so taken with hearing this that I went out and acquired The Ultimate Tony Bennett. Needless to say, this is so good it's sinful.
First off I believe Tony is not only a superb American vocalist, but probably one of the best in contemporary music. You only need to listen to the burst of vocal dexterity at the end of "How Do You Keep the Music Playing" to know this is true. Tony is the master of mood. Suave, sophisticated adult love tunes that compliment a romantic evening.
This is a collection of wonderful music. Sweet, sentimental ballads like "Mood Indigo" and "Blue Velvet". Fine jazz excursions like "Steppin' Out With My Baby" (Sondra threw her head back and laughed like Lauren Bacall with that one), "Night and Day", and let's not forget one of my favorites "The Best is Yet to Come".
But, more than these morsels of sound, Tony gives you more food for thought with timely classics. "Stranger in Paradise", "Rags to Riches", "I Wanna Be Around" "Put On a Happy Face" can certainly be regarded as very high points in an illustrious career. But, at the top of the hill has to be the finest he's ever recorded. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". If I was locked away at Alcatraz, this would be the one I'd want to hear. I'm glad I'm not, but I forever want to hear it anyway.
Every song here, in it's own way, is pure pleasure. Relaxing, pleasant to hear, and so very very fine. I am grateful that Tony is still around to pick up the pizzas. ;)
Anyway - highly recommended. Now, your Metamorpho is giving another lecture tour, coming to a city near you very soon. And your contributions will help me get back to Le Chateau de Penguin once again. You wouldn't deny me this small indulgence, would you? Make check payable to me and make sure it doesn't bounce! The waiters don't expect shabby tips you know!
On the Boulevard of Broken Greens -- Metamorpho ;)
Description of Ultimate Tony
First they went platinum...Now they're going green. Your best loved music in its simplest form. 20 best-selling "Greatest Hits" & "Best of" collections now available in a new eco-friendly package. 1CD in card wallet packaging - no plastic, no booklet - just great music! Booklets are available online through a unique URL on the package.While Sinatra, Martin, and the Rat Pack were busy sacrificing a good measure of their vocal talents in the sordid business of fame and fortune, Tony Bennett was quietly, stubbornly, burnishing his vocal gifts into High, if seemingly effortless, Art. How good is Bennett? Just ask the Chairman of the Board and Head Rat: "The best goddamned pop singer I've ever heard." While a single disc can't offer much more than a sketchy outline of Bennett's rich, seven-decade career, this one offers the commercial peaks--and some telling hints at the restless artistic instinct that produced them. From the pure, nearly operatic power and perfect vibrato he displays on early hits such as "Rags to Riches," "Stranger in Paradise" and the overly theatrical, borderline kitsch of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" through his signature "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" to his gratifying if unlikely '90s resurgence, you can literally hear Bennett's voice tempering like the wood of a Stradivarius, his phrasing taking on a deceptively loose, jazz-fueled languor that tells you where his musical heart really lies. The singer, not the song; damn straight advice--take it from a master. -Jerry McCulley
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