Tony Bennett - Singles Collection 1951-62 (CD)

Tony Bennett ranks among the most popular, successful and highly-respected popular vocalists of the last half-century and more, so much so that a full sixty years after his chart debut in 1951, his credibility among the contemporary pop audience was such that he achieved his 70th chart hit in 2011 with a duet with Lady Ga-Ga. He was one of the many successful crooners of the post-war era to come from the diaspora of Italian immigrant families in the north-western states of the USA, and build a career first as a hit singles artist, and then a major album seller, before achieving appreciation among music fans who weren't born when he made his chart debut. With an apparently effortless ability to deliver a song exactly as it feels it should be done, and a relaxed and assured demeanour, he is one of the peerless performers in popular music. This great-value 78-track 3-CD set comprises a substantial proportion of the A & B sides of the sixty or so singles he released during the first decade and more of his career, with at least one side of most releases included, and naturally features all the 38 US and UK chart hits which he enjoyed during that period, including his signature song I Left My Heart In San Francisco plus the classic No. 1s Because Of You, Cold Cold Heart, Rags To Riches & Stranger In Paradise. It's a hugely entertaining insight into the early career of a unique talent

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Don't Cry Baby
2. One Lie Leads to Another
3. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
4. Beautiful Madness
5. Because of You
6. I Won't Cry Anymore
7. While We're Young
8. Cold Cold Heart
9. Solitaire
10. Blue Velvet
11. Since My Love Has Gone
12. Somewhere Along the Way
13. Here in My Heart
14. I'm Lost Again
15. Have a Good Time
16. Please My Love
17. You Could Make Me Smile Again
18. Roses of Yesterday
19. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
20. Once There Lived a Fool
21. Stay Where You Are
22. Anywhere I Wander
23. Congratulations to Someone
24. Take Me
25. No One Will Ever Know
26. I'm the King of Broken Hearts

Disc: 2

1. I'll Go
2. Here Comes That Heartache Again
3. Rags to Riches
4. Why Does It Have to Be Me
5. Stranger in Paradise
6. There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
7. My Heart Won't Say Goodbye
8. Please Driver Once Around the Park Again
9. Until Yesterday
10. Cinnamon Sinner
11. Take Me Back Again
12. Not As a Stranger
13. Funny Thing
14. Close Your Eyes
15. What Will I Tell My Heart?
16. Don't Tell Me Why
17. May I Never Love Again
18. How Can I Replace You
19. Afraid of the Dark
20. Come Next Spring
21. Sing You Sinners
22. Capri in May
23. Can You Find It in Your Heart
24. From the Candy Store on the Corner to the Chapel
25. Happiness Street

Disc: 3

1. Just in Time
2. Autumn Waltz
3. Sold to the Man with the Broken Heart
4. One for My Baby
5. In the Middle of An Island
6. I Am
7. Ca C'est L'amour
8. Love Song from Beauty and the Beast
9. Beat of My Heart
10. Young and Warm and Wonderful
11. Firefly
12. Love Look Away
13. It's So Peaceful in the Country
14. Smile
15. Climb Ev'ry Mountain
16. Ask Anyone in Love
17. I'll Bring You a Rainbow
18. Put on a Happy Face
19. Till
20. Marriage-Go-Round
21. Ramona
22. The Best Is Yet to Come
23. Tender Is the Night
24. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
25. Once Upon a Time
26. Candy Kisses
27. I Wanna Be Around