Here's to the Ladies
Appearance
Here's to the Ladies | ||||
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Released | October 24, 1995[1] | |||
Recorded | 1995 | |||
Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
Length | 67:17 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | David Kahne | |||
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Here's to the Ladies is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1995.
The theme of the album was songs made famous by female singers. In 1997 the album won Bennett the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.
Track listing
- "People" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) 4:44 - Barbra Streisand tribute
- "I'm in Love Again" (Peggy Lee, Cy Coleman) 3:52 - Peggy Lee tribute
- "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) 3:59 - Judy Garland tribute
- "My Love Went to London" (T. Seibetta, John Wallowitch) 5:11 - Blossom Dearie tribute
- "Poor Butterfly" (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell) 5:43 - Sarah Vaughan tribute
- "Sentimental Journey" (Les Brown, Bud Green, Ben Homer) 3:29 - Doris Day tribute
- "Cloudy Morning" (Marvin Fisher, Joseph Allan McCarthy) 4:44 - Carmen McRae tribute
- "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) 3:47 - Rosemary Clooney tribute
- "Down in the Depths (On the Ninetieth Floor)" (Cole Porter) 2:11 - Mabel Mercer tribute
- "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) 2:53 - Margaret Whiting tribute
- "Tangerine" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) 4:06 - Helen O'Connell tribute
- "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) 2:51 - Billie Holiday tribute
- "Daybreak" (Harold Adamson, Ferde Grofé) 3:45 - Dinah Washington tribute
- "You Showed Me the Way" (Ella Fitzgerald, Green, Teddy McRae, Chick Webb) 5:31 - Ella Fitzgerald tribute
- "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) 2:57 - Lena Horne tribute
- "Maybe This Time" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) 3:26 - Liza Minnelli tribute
- "I Got Rhythm" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) 2:01 - Ethel Merman tribute
- "My Ideal" (Newell Chase, Leo Robin, Richard Whiting) 1:55 - Margaret Whiting tribute
Personnel
- 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)