1963 studio album by Tony Bennett
This Is All I Ask is an album by Tony Bennett , released in 1963.
The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated August 24, of that year, and remained on the album chart for 30 weeks, peaking at No. 24[ 3] it also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated August 17, of that year, and remained on the chart for in a total of 30 weeks, peaking at 14[ 4]
On November 8, 2011, Sony Music Distribution included the CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection .[ 5]
Reception
Variety notes "[Bennett's] vocal mood gets added musical highlights through highlights"[ 6]
Track listing
"Keep Smiling at Trouble" (Buddy G. DeSylvia, Al Jolson , Lewis E. Gensler) – 2:08
"Autumn in Rome" (Sammy Cahn , Paul Weston , Alessandro Cicognini ) – 2:19
"True Blue Lou" (Richard A. Whiting , Leo Robin , Sam Coslow ) – 2:46
"The Way That I Feel" – 2:58
"This Is All I Ask " (Gordon Jenkins ) – 3:17
"The Moment of Truth" (Tex Satterwhite, Frank Scott ) – 2:14
"Got Her Off My Hands" – 2:04
"Sandy's Smile" – 3:13
"Long About Now" – 2:45
"Young and Foolish " – 3:26
"Tricks" – 1:52
"On the Other Side of the Tracks" (Cy Coleman , Carolyn Leigh ) – 3:46
Recorded April 22, 1963 (#1–2, 10, 12), April 24, 1963 (#3, 6–7), April 26, 1963 (#4–5, 8–9, 11).
Personnel
References
^ Billboard Aug 10, 1963
^ "Tony Bennett: This Is All I Ask " (PDF) . Record Mirror . No. 158. 21 March 1964. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022 .
^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's top pop albums : 1955-1996 : compiled from Billboard magazine's pop album charts, 1955-1996 . Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-8982-0117-8 .
^ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974 . Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 28. ISBN 0-8108-2005-6 .
^ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett" . allmusic.com . Retrieved 8 October 2024 .
^ "Variety Album Reviews Sherman's Nut, Bennett's Ask, Fontaine's Crazy, Ive's Easy, Cole's Summer Top New LP: This Is All I Ask" . Variety . Vol. 231, no. 10. July 31, 1963. p. 92.
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