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Here's to the Ladies

Here's to the Ladies is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1995.[2]

Here's to the Ladies
Studio album by
Tony Bennett
ReleasedOctober 24, 1995[1]
RecordedMarch–July 1995
GenreVocal jazz
Length67:17
LabelColumbia
ProducerDavid Kahne
Tony Bennett chronology
MTV Unplugged
(1995) 		Here's to the Ladies
(1995) 		Tony Bennett on Holiday
(1997)

The theme of the album was songs made famous by female singers. The album won Bennett the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.[3] It peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Traditional Jazz Albums chart.[4]

Sony Music Distribution included this CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection, which contains fifty-eight of his studio albums, 4 compilation, three DVDs, six volumes of Bennett’s non-album singles, a previously unreleased CD of his Las Vegas debut from 1964, and two discs of rarities, including Bennett’s first recording, an Army V-Disc of “St. James Infirmary Blues, and was released on November 8, 2011.[5]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [6]
Entertainment WeeklyA[7]

Entertainment Weekly wrote that Bennett's "sensitivity to the distaff side of prerock music balances the craggy muscularity of his vocal style."[7]

Track listing

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  1. "People" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) 4:44 – Barbra Streisand tribute
  2. "I'm in Love Again" (Peggy Lee, Cy Coleman) 3:52 – Peggy Lee tribute
  3. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) 3:59 – Judy Garland tribute
  4. "My Love Went to London" (T. Seibetta, John Wallowitch) 5:11 – Blossom Dearie tribute
  5. "Poor Butterfly" (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell) 5:43 – Sarah Vaughan tribute
  6. "Sentimental Journey" (Les Brown, Bud Green, Ben Homer) 3:29 – Doris Day tribute
  7. "Cloudy Morning" (Marvin Fisher, Joseph Allan McCarthy) 4:44 – Carmen McRae tribute
  8. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) 3:47 – Rosemary Clooney tribute
  9. "Down in the Depths (On the Ninetieth Floor)" (Cole Porter) 2:11 – Mabel Mercer tribute
  10. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) 2:53 – Margaret Whiting tribute
  11. "Tangerine" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) 4:06 – Helen O'Connell tribute
  12. "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) 2:51 – Billie Holiday tribute
  13. "Daybreak" (Harold Adamson, Ferde Grofé) 3:45 – Dinah Washington tribute
  14. "You Showed Me the Way" (Ella Fitzgerald, Green, Teddy McRae, Chick Webb) 5:31 – Ella Fitzgerald tribute
  15. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) 2:57 – Lena Horne tribute
  16. "Maybe This Time" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) 3:26 – Liza Minnelli tribute
  17. "I Got Rhythm" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) 2:01 – Ethel Merman tribute
  18. "My Ideal" (Newell Chase, Leo Robin, Richard Whiting) 1:55 – Margaret Whiting tribute

Personnel

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  • Tony Bennett – vocals
  • Ralph Sharon – piano
  • Clayton Cameron – drums
  • Doug Richeson – double bass
  • Lew Soloff – trumpet solos
  • unidentified session orchestra and big band (except for tracks 8, 10, 12, 16, 17 & 18)
  • Jorge Calandrelli – arranger, conductor of the orchestral charts (tracks 2, 4–7, 13–15)
  • Bill Holman – arranger, conductor of the Big Band charts (tracks 1, 3, 9, 11)

References

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  1. ^ "Here's To The Ladies". tonybennett.com.
  2. ^ "Tony Bennett Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  3. ^ "Tony Bennett". Recording Academy. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Tony Bennett". Billboard.
  5. ^ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  6. ^ "Here's to the Ladies – Tony Bennett | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  7. ^ a b "Here's to the Ladies". EW.com.
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