Forty Years: The Artistry Of Tony Bennett

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Album Info

Release Date: 1991

Labels: Columbia, Legacy

Deluxe Collection with 4 CDs or 4 Cassettes.
All songs personally chosen by Tony.

64-page booklet, with rare photos and four sets of liner notes. Song-by-song commentary by Tony himself.

Digitally remixed and remastered from the original recording session tapes. 87 songs spanning 40 years!

Custom sticker on box.
46843-S1 appears on sticker, C4K 46843 and 46843 appear on sides of box.

Quote on back cover of the box by Nat Hentoff.

Track notes:
1-1: Subtitled "Gigolo and Gigolette" in the booklet. Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC. Monaural Recording.
1-2 to 1-5, 1-7, 1-8: Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC. Monaural Recording.
1-6: From the Broadway production "Kismet". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC. Monaural Recording.
1-9: From the 1930 Paramount Picture "Honey". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC. Monaural Recording.
1-10: From the Broadway production "Bells Are Ringing". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC. Monaural Recording.
1-11: From the Broadway production "The Golden Apple". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC. Binaural Recording.
1-12: From the MGM film musical "Les Girls". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
1-13: From the Broadway production "Anything Goes". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
1-14: Recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, CA.
1-15, 1-18, 1-23, 2-3, 2-5, 2-11, 2-12, 2-14, 2-16 to 2-21, 3-5 to 3-7, 3-9, 3-10, 3-20, 4-3, 4-6: Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
1-16: From the Broadway production "Lost In The Stars". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
1-17: From the Vitaphone Corp. film "Gold Diggers Of Broadway". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
1-19: From the Broadway production "House Of Flowers". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
1-20: From the Warner Bros. film musical "A Star Is Born". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
1-21: Previously unreleased. Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
1-22: From the Broadway production "Knickerbocker Holiday". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
2-1: From the Broadway production "Jubilee". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
2-2: From the Broadway production "Bye Bye Birdie". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
2-4: From the film musical "Blues In The Night". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
2-6: From the Broadway production "Bombo". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
2-7: From the Broadway production "The Bandwagon". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
2-8: From the Paramount Pictures film "The Uninvited". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
2-9: From the 20th Century-Fox film "Tender Is The Night". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
2-10: From the Broadway production "All American". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
2-13: From the Broadway production "Hold Your Horses". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
2-15: From the film "The Seven Capital Sins". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
3-1: From the 1946 revival production of "Show Boat". Recorded at United Recording Studios, Las Vegas, NV.
3-2, 3-3: Recorded at United Recording Studios, Las Vegas, NV.
3-4: From the Broadway production "The Roar of the Greasepaint...". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
3-8: From the Broadway production "Pickwick". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
3-11: Recorded at CBS Studio 2, Chicago, IL.
3-12: Love theme from "The Sandpiper". Recorded at CBS Studio A, Hollywood, CA.
3-13: From the Broadway production "Skyscraper". Recorded at CBS Studio A, Hollywood, CA.
3-14: From the Broadway production "Sweet Charity". Recorded at CBS Studio A, Hollywood, CA.
3-15: From the United Artists film "Modern Times". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
3-16: From the Embassy Pictures reelease "The Oscar". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
3-17: From the MGM film "The Americanization of Emily". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
3-18: Recorded in London, England.
3-19: From the Warner Bros. film "An American Dream". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
4-1: From the 20th Century-Fox film "Hombre". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
4-2: From the Broadway production "Big Boy". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
4-4: From the Broadway production "Of Thee I Sing". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC. Previously unreleased.
4-5: From the RKO Radio Pictures film "Shall We Dance". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
4-7: Recorded at CBS Studio A, Hollywood, CA.
4-8: From the Broadway production "Two By Two". Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio, NYC.
4-9: From the Broadway production "Finian's Rainbow". Recorded live at Albert Hall, London, England. Electronically reprocessed stereo.
4-10: From the Universal Pictures film "One Night In The Tropics". Recorded in London, England.
4-11: From the Paramount Pictures film "Cabaret". Recorded in London, England.
4-12: From the Broadway production "On The Town". Recorded at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, 6-10-6/13/75. Courtesy of Fantasy Records.
4-13: From the RKO Radio Pictures film , "My Foolish Heart". Recorded at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, 6-10-6/13/75. Courtesy of Fantasy Records.
4-14: From the Paramount Pictures film , "Road To Rio". Recorded at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, 6-10-6/13/75. Courtesy of Fantasy Records.
4-15: From the Warner Bros. film "Best Friends". Recorded at Olympic Studios, London, England.
4-16, 4-17: Recorded at Olympic Studios, London, England.
4-18: From the Broadway music, "Annie Get Your Gun". Recorded at Olympic Studios, London, England.
4-19: Recorded at Hillside Studio, Englewood, NJ.
4-20: From the "Ziegfeld Follies Of 1927". Recorded at Hillside Studio, Englewood, NJ.
4-21, 4-22: Recorded at Master Sound Studio, Astoria, NY.

Digitally remixed at: 1) Hillside Sound Studio, Englewood, NJ, and
2) Sony Music Recording Studios, New York, ,NY.

© 1991 Sony Music Entertainment Inc. / ℗ 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991 Sony Music Entertainment Inc. / Manufactured by Columbia Records / New York, NY

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