Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Tony Bennett
2. Because of You - Tony Bennett
3. Cold, Cold Heart - Tony Bennett
4. Blue Velvet - Tony Bennett
5. Rags to Riches - Tony Bennett
6. Stranger in Paradise - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles Singers
7. While the Music Plays On - Tony Bennett
8. May I Never Love Again - Tony Bennett
9. Sing You Sinners - Tony Bennett
10. Just in Time - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett
11. Lazy Afternoon - Tony Bennett
12. Ca, C'est l'Amour - Tony Bennett
13. I Get a Kick Out of You - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett, Art Blakey
14. It Amazes Me - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett, , George Van Eps
15. Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone) - Tony Bennett
16. Lost in the Stars - Count Basie Orchestra, , Tony Bennett
17. Lullaby of Broadway [Live] - Tony Bennett
18. Firefly - Tony Bennett
19. Sleepin' Bee - Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon
20. Man That Got Away - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett
21. Skylark [#] - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett
22. September Song - Tony Bennett
23. Till - Tony Bennett

Disc 2:

1. Begin the Beguine - Tony Bennett
2. Put on a Happy Face - Tony Bennett
3. Best Is Yet to Come - Tony Bennett
4. This Time the Dream's on Me - Tony Bennett
5. Close Your Eyes - Tony Bennett
6. Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye - Tony Bennett
7. Dancing in the Dark - Tony Bennett
8. Stella by Starlight - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett
9. Tender Is the Night - Tony Bennett
10. Once Upon a Time - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett
11. I Left My Heart in San Francisco - Tony Bennett
12. Until I Met You - Tony Bennett, , Jo Jones
13. If I Love Again - Tony Bennett
14. I Wanna Be Around - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett
15. Good Life - Tony Bennett
16. It Was Me - Tony Bennett
17. Spring in Manhattan - Tony Bennett, Will Bronson Singers
18. Moment of Truth - Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon Trio
19. This Is All I Ask - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett
20. Taste of Honey - Tony Bennett, Dick Hyman, Ralph Sharon Trio
21. When Joanna Loved Me - Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon Trio
22. I'll Be Around - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett, Bobby Hackett, Ralph Sharon Trio

Disc 3:

1. Nobody Else But Me - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon Trio
2. It Had to Be You - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett
3. I've Got Just About Everything - Tony Bennett
4. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) - Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon Trio
5. Waltz for Debby - Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon Trio
6. I Walk a Little Faster - Tony Bennett
7. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) - Tony Bennett
8. If I Ruled the World - Tony Bennett, Will Bronson Singers, Ralph Sharon Trio
9. Fly Me to the Moon - Tony Bennett, Al Cohn
10. Love Scene - Tony Bennett
11. Sweet Lorraine - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett, Bobby Hackett, Joe Marsala
12. Shadow of Your Smile - Tony Bennett, Jimmy Rowles
13. I'll Only Miss Her When I Think of Her - Tony Bennett
14. Baby, Dream Your Dream - Tony Bennett
15. Smile - Tony Bennett, Tommy Flanagan,
16. Maybe September - Tony Bennett
17. Emily - Tony Bennett
18. Very Thought of You - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett, Bobby Hackett
19. Time for Love - Tony Bennett
20. Country Girl - Tony Bennett, Corky Hale, Joe Soldo
21. Days of Love - Tony Bennett

Disc 4:

1. Keep Smiling at Trouble (Trouble's a Bubble) - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett
2. For Once in My Life - Tony Bennett
3. Who Cares? - Tony Bennett
4. Hi-Ho! - Tony Bennett
5. Baby Don't You Quit Now - Tony Bennett
6. Something - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett
7. Cold, Cold Heart - Tony Bennett, John Bunch
8. I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You - Tony Bennett
9. Old Devil Moon [Live] - Tony Bennett, London Philharmonic Orchestra
10. Remind Me - Tony Bennett
11. Maybe This Time - Tony Bennett
12. Some Other Time - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett, , Bill Evans
13. My Foolish Heart - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett
14. But Beautiful - Tony Bennett
15. How Do You Keep the Music Playing? - Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon Trio,
16. What Are You Afraid Of - Tony Bennett
17. Why Do People Fall in Love?/People - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett
18. I Got Lost in Her Arms - Tony Bennett
19. When I Lost You - Tony Bennett
20. Shakin' the Blues Away - Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon Trio
21. Antonia - Tony Bennett
22. When Do the Bells Ring for Me - Tony Bennett

Disc 5:

1. East of the Sun (West of the Moon) - Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon Trio
2. New York, New York - Ron Anthony, , Tony Bennett, Chuck Berghofer, Gregg Field, Frank Sinatra
3. Steppin' Out With My Baby - Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon Trio
4. They All Laughed - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon Trio
5. They Can't Take That Away from Me - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon Trio
6. Speak Low [Live] - Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon Trio
7. Solitude - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon
8. I Wished on the Moon - Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon
9. When a Woman Loves a Man - Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon
10. That Ole Devil Called Love - Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon
11. Way You Look Tonight - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett
12. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive - Tony Bennett,
13. Bein' Green - Tony Bennett, The Muppets
14. Mood Indigo - Tony Bennett,
15. Day Dream - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett,
16. Azure - Tony Bennett,
17. Sophisticated Lady - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett,
18. Alright, Okay, You Win - Tony Bennett, Diana Krall,
19. Let the Good Times Roll - Tony Bennett, B.B. King,
20. Evenin' - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles,
21. Vie en Rose - Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett, k.d. lang, Paul Langosch, Lee Musiker, Gray Sargent
22. What a Wonderfurl World - Tony Bennett, k.d. lang, Paul Langosch, Lee Musiker, Gray Sargent

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11610 in Music
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2004-10-12
• Number of discs: 5
• Formats: Box set, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: 1.35 pounds

Customer Reviews

Insufficiently Fresh
Essentially, this IS the "Forty Years" offering plus an extra CD for the past decade. Considering the plethora of gems, especially live music, that must (please God) still be available in the archives, this set is a disappointment to owners of "Forty Years". Of course, its still Tony Bennett, arguably the greatest interpreter of American popular standards, there's lots of music, and the selections are generally solid. However, the sound quality is a bit uneven at times and grossly under-represents his live contributions (shockingly, Carnegie Hall 1962 is still the only all-live generally available recording from his first three decades of output). Still, this collection is the definitive take on Mr. Bennett's musical life work to date. Tony Bennett...long may he live.

A Supremely Wonderful Collection Of One Of America's Greatest Treasures.
Aside from Frank Sinata, no greater singer has carved a niche in the collective soul of American popular music than Tony Bennett. For over 50 years, the man who entered this world as Anthony Benedetto has given us some of the best and most beloved recordings of timeless songs that to this day help define our deepest emotions and most important moments in our lives.

This 5 disc collection is a magnificent introduction into the world of Tony Bennett, containing some of the most beautifully interpretted renditions of our most cherished standards by great writers such as The Gershwins, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern and other legends of the craft.

Discs 1 and 2 chronicle Bennett's rise to stardom in the early 1950s' to mid 1960s'. Tony proved to be a force of nature right from his first single release, "The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams," which still sounds as fresh and soulful as it did 54 years ago. Throughout the rest of the 1950s', Tony scored a string of hit singles that went on to become defining numbers in the Great American Songbook, including "Because Of You," (a wedding perennial), "Cold, Cold Heart" (a country hit for Hank Williams that Tony helped introduce to the pop world), "Blue Velvey," the timeless "Rags To Riches," "Sing You Sinners" and many other classic hits that he still does to this day.

Also from this classic era are lesser known but eqqually excellent albums such as "While The Music Plays On," the splendid "Ca, C'est Amour," the gorgeous "Lazy Sunday," "I Get A Kick Out Of You," (perhaps the only version that rivals Sinatra's defintive 1953 rendition), a magnificent "September Song" and a swingin' "Lullabye Of Broadway" with Count Basie.

The 1960s' continued to bare more fruit for Tony, including classics such as "The Best Is Yet To Come," "Tender The Night," "Once Upon A Time," the stinging "I Wanna Be Around," and the lush "The Good Life." It was during this period of productivty he cut what to me, are his two best songs.

The first is "I Left My Heart San Francisco," his 1962 hit and (deservedly) his most popular song, a melancholy slice of vintage Americana sung so passionately by Tony against a gloriously understated and utterly breathtaking Grammy winning arrangement by Marty Manning.

The other would be "When Joanna Loved Me," which ranks alongside Sinatra's "I've Got You Under My Skin" and Darin's "Mack The Knife" as one of the most perfect recordiings in American history, a song that represents pure human emotion at its most raw and honest. Tony's singing on this song is sincere and heartbreaking, and remain so to this day.

Discs 3 and 4 mark a period of transition and eventually resurrection for Tony. By the mid 1960s', Tony's appeal began to dwindle, as hit singles had begun to dry up. He still cut quite a few certified classics (among them "Smile," "The Very Thought Of You," "For Once In My Life," and his personal favorite recrding, "I Do Not Know A Day I Did Not Love You"), but by the early 1970s', the music world wasn't as kind to Tony commercially. Artistically, however, Tony was still capable of churning out some excellent music. His collaboration with Bill Evans yielded such gems as "My Foolish Heart" and "But Beautiful," and he turned in a magnificent performance of the "Cabaret" classic "Maybe This Time."

By 1986, Tony had mounted a very successful comeback with "The Art Of Excellence," which yielded his beautiful performance of "How Do You Keep The Music Playing" and the playful and seductive "What Are You Afraid Of." His newfound sreak of good luck continuted with his Irving Berlin tribute, which yielded the beautiful "I Got Lost In Her Arms" and a haunting a capella take on "When I Lost You." Tony also scored a latter day classic with the beautiful "When Do The Bells Ring For Me."

Disc 5 chronicles Tony's 1990s' revival, when he helped introduce the wonderfuls tandrards of the past to a new generation and connected with young listeners and contemporary entertainers. Tony added yet another classic to his reusme with the Fred Astaire tribute "Steppin' Out With My Baby," and teamed with contemporary artists such as Diana Krall ("Alright, O.K., You Win"), B.B. King ("Let The Good Times Roll"), Ray Charles (the amazin' "Evenin'"), and two wonderful duets with k.d. lang ("La Vie En Rose" and "What A Wonderful World"). This disc is an excellent overview of his later years up to today, and Tony is still very much alive, well and performing.

This boxed set contains a superb booklet filled with great essays and rare photographs. The boxed set is affordable and the sound quality is superb. Do yourself a favor and purchase this magnificent collection as soon as possible.

Great Overview of Tony's Remarkable Career!
This boxset is a great start for someone just discovering or long-time fan who wants a great overview of Tony's career on CD, what I love about this set is that features songs that showcase Tony as the Jazz singer, it does feature alot of pop standards but Tony swings on those too! and the ballads are just beautiful!
and the sound quality of this boxset is awesome!