Artist: Tony Bennett
Album: The Essential Tony Bennett (Rm) (2CD) [Limited Edition, Original recording remastered]
Released: July 23, 2002
Genre: Pop standards, Jazz
Label: RPM Records/Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings
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Traclist:
CD1
01. Because Of You
02. Cold, Cold Heart (78rpm Version)
03. Blue Velvet
04. Rags To Riches
05. Stranger In Paradise (78rpm Version)
06. Sing You Sinners
07. The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Gigolo And Gigolette)
08. Just In Time (78rpm Version)
09. It Amazes Me
10. Love Look Away
11. Firefly
12. Put On A Happy Face
13. The Best Is Yet To Come (Single Version)
14. Tender Is The Night
15. Once Upon A Time
16. I Left My Heart In San Francisco (Single Version)
17. I Wanna Be Around (Single Version)
18. The Good Life (Single Version)
19. This Is All I Ask
20. When Joanna Loved Me
listen 21. The Rules Of The Road
CD2
01. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) (Single Version)
02. If I Ruled The World
03. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
04. The Shadow Of Your Smile (Single Version)
05. Smile
06. The Very Thought Of You
07. For Once In My Life
08. Yesterday I Heard The Rain (Esta Tarde Vi Llover)
09. My Favorite Things (Single Version)
10. I Do Not Know A Day I Did Not Love You
11. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?
12. When Do The Bells Ring For Me?
13. Night And Day
14. Last Night When We Were Young
15. Steppin' Out With My Baby
16. It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (Live Version)
17. Mood Indigo
18. Keep the Faith, Baby
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The Essential Tony Bennett is a two-CD compilation album by Tony Bennett, released in 2002. The collection is part of a series of Essential sets released by Columbia Records, and was created in collaboration with RPM Records and Legacy Recordings.
The compilation includes material from throughout Bennett's career with Columbia, with no recordings after 1970 and before 1986 as Bennett was with other labels or unsigned altogether during that fallow period of his career. The 12-page foldout CD insert contains songwriting, arranging, and producing credits for each track, as well as recording dates and chart positions attained if any. It also contains large photographs of Bennett in the recording studio from early and late periods in his career, as well as thumbnail-sized images of all the albums covers from Bennett's Columbia catalog, in chronological order.
Allmusic describes The Essential Tony Bennett as "an excellent, exhaustive retrospective of a lengthy, hit-filled career at Columbia. ... Bennett surely recorded more great material than can fit on a two-disc, 40-track collection, but this contains the cream of the crop and it's hard to imagine a collection like this being executed better than this."
In 2008, a 3 disc version entitled The Essential Tony Bennett: Limited Edition 3.0 was released.
