UPC: 886979579927
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Release Date: May 28, 2013
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Personnel includes: Tony Bennett (vocals); Peter Matz (conductor).
Producers: Wally Gold, Ted Macero.
Reissue producer: Didier C. Deutsch.
Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studios, New York between November 1969 and August 1970. Originally released as Columbia (C 30280). Includes original release liner notes by Gene Lees.
This is part of Columbia Records' Tony Bennett Master series.
Unlike his peer Sinatra, Bennett never ventured very far from the artistic course he began plotting at the beginning of his career. Consequently, his catalog is markedly more consistent than Sinatra's (though you'd still be hard pressed to find an outright bad album in either man's canon). One of Bennett's few real left turns is SOMETHING. As many of his contemporaries were doing in the late '60s/early '70s, he decided to record an album of more contemporary pop songs. Unlike many of those contemporaries (again with the notable exception of Sinatra), he didn't come away with a conceptual muddle.
Once he opened up his musical antenna to extend beyond his usual sources of repertoire, it seems the sky became the limit for Bennett. SOMETHING includes tunes by everyone from George Harrison (the title tune) to Jobim ("Wave") to Bacharach/David ("Make It Easy On Yourself.") One of the most pleasant surprises is Bennett's bold interpretation of Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin," with a daring arrangement by Peter Matz, which alternates between jazzy swing and almost avant-garde dischord.
Producers: Wally Gold, Ted Macero.
Reissue producer: Didier C. Deutsch.
Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studios, New York between November 1969 and August 1970. Originally released as Columbia (C 30280). Includes original release liner notes by Gene Lees.
This is part of Columbia Records' Tony Bennett Master series.
Unlike his peer Sinatra, Bennett never ventured very far from the artistic course he began plotting at the beginning of his career. Consequently, his catalog is markedly more consistent than Sinatra's (though you'd still be hard pressed to find an outright bad album in either man's canon). One of Bennett's few real left turns is SOMETHING. As many of his contemporaries were doing in the late '60s/early '70s, he decided to record an album of more contemporary pop songs. Unlike many of those contemporaries (again with the notable exception of Sinatra), he didn't come away with a conceptual muddle.
Once he opened up his musical antenna to extend beyond his usual sources of repertoire, it seems the sky became the limit for Bennett. SOMETHING includes tunes by everyone from George Harrison (the title tune) to Jobim ("Wave") to Bacharach/David ("Make It Easy On Yourself.") One of the most pleasant surprises is Bennett's bold interpretation of Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin," with a daring arrangement by Peter Matz, which alternates between jazzy swing and almost avant-garde dischord.