If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set

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If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set
Studio album by Tony Bennett
Released April 19, 1965
Recorded January 4, February 18, 19, 1965
Genre Jazz
Length 52:30
Label Columbia
Producer Ernie Altschuler
Tony Bennett chronology
Who Can I Turn To?
(1964)
If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set
(1965)
Tony Bennett's Greatest Hits, Vol. III
(1965)

If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set is a 1965 studio album by Tony Bennett, arranged by Don Costa. Bennett dedicated his recording of "Sweet Lorraine" on the album to Nat "King" Cole, who had died a month before the album's release.[1]

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  1. "Samba Do Avião" ("Song of the Jet") (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gene Lees) – 3:43
  2. "Fly Me to the Moon"(Bart Howard) – 4:10
  3. "How Insensitive" (Vinicius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel, Jobim) – 4:23
  4. "If I Ruled the World" (Leslie Bricusse, Cyril Ornadel) – 2:59
  5. "Love Scene" (Marshall Barer, Duke Ellington) – 2:33
  6. "Take the Moment" (Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim) – 3:59
  7. "Then Was Then and Now Is Now" (Cy Coleman, Peggy Lee) – 3:05
  8. "Sweet Lorraine" (Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish) – 3:39
  9. "The Right to Love" (Gene Lees, Lalo Schifrin) – 3:41
  10. "Watch What Happens" (Jacques Demy, Gimbel, Michel Legrand) – 2:57
  11. "All My Tomorrows" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:19
  12. "Two by Two" (Martin Charnin, Rodgers) – 3:25
  13. "Falling in Love with Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:21

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