The album of the week starting on February 27, 2022, is My Heart Sings.
Tony Bennett remembers My Heart Sings in his autobiography, The Good Life:
Ralph Burns and I got together again to do some singles, including “Smile,” and for our next album we changed gears again. Instead of the lush, ballad-style arrangements we had used on Hometown, My Town, we switched to a cookin’ jazz sound. The album is called My Heart Sings, and I simply love Ralph’s writing on this one. It’s really beautiful music.
This album is a preview of 1962, which was an outstanding year for Tony Bennett, including his concert at Carnegie Hall and winning his first Grammy Award for “I Left My Heart In San Francisco.”
My Heart Sings was recorded in 3 sessions on 3 consecutive days: April 4, April 5, and April 6, 1961.
Album Facts
| Release Date | August 7, 1961 |
| Label | Columbia |
| Producer | Ernie Altschuler |
| Vocals | Tony Bennett |
| Arrangements, Conductor | Ralph Burns |
| Piano | Bernie Leighton |
| Bass | Milt Hinton |
| Drums | Herb Lovelle |
| Guitar | Barry Galbraith, Chuck Wayne, Mundell Lowe |
| Saxophone | Danny Bank, Al Klink, Toots Mondello, Romeo Penque, Jerry Sanfino |
| Trumpet | Bernie Glow, Irving Markowitz, Jimmy Maxwell, Carl Sereinsen |
| Trombone | Robert Alexander, Urbie Green, Dick Hixson, Frank Rehak |
| Vibes | Eddie Costa |
Songs on My Heart Sings
| Song | Composers |
| Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me | Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler |
| Dancing in the Dark | Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz |
| I’m Comin’ Virginia | Donald Heywood, Will Marion Cook |
| My Heart Sings | Jean Blanvillain (Jamblin), Harold Rome, Henri Laurent Herpin |
| It Never Was You | Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson |
| You Took Advantage of Me | Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart |
| Close Your Eyes | Bernice Petkere |
| Stella By Starlight | Victor Young, Ned Washington |
| More Than You Know | Vincent Youmans, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu |
| My Ship | Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin |
| Lover Man | Jimmy Davis, Roger “Ram” Ramirez, James Sherman |
| Toot, Toot, Tootsie | Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Ted Fiorito, Dan Russo |
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