Tony Bennett - This Is All I Ask (1963) - VINYL, MONO - 24-bit/96kHz plus CD-compatible format

The follow-up to the "I Wanna Be Around" LP.

The follow-up to the "I Wanna Be Around" lp, this is perhaps not up to that level, but still has more than it's share of treasures. Seven of these tracks appear on the "I Wanna Be Around" cd re-issue, btw. They left off the right songs. Also, this version of the title tune is not the version available on the "Alone Together" lp, and it is NOT on the aforementioned CD (headscratch).



Review by William Ruhlmann
Tony Bennett got a #70 hit out of the title track, a warm ballad written by Gordon Jenkins, and elsewhere he turned to old standbys like Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, pulling another song from their show Little Me, in this case "On The Other Side Of The Tracks" ("I've Got Your Number" had appeared on I Wanna Be Around), and included a drum track, "Tricks," with Chico Hamilton. If you hadn't heard Bennett's previous two albums, I Left My Heart In San Francisco and I Wanna Be Around, This Is All I Ask would sound like a varied, satisfying collection, but if you had, you recognized the formula and realized it had been done slightly better before.

01 - Keep Smiling At Trouble.flac
02 - Autumn In Rome.flac
03 - True Blue Lou.flac
04 - The Way That I Feel.flac
05 - This Is All I Ask.flac
06 - The Moment Of Truth.flac
07 - Got Her Off My Hands.flac
08 - Sandy's Smile.flac
09 - Long About Now.flac
10 - Young And Foolish.flac
11 - Tricks.flac
12 - On The Other Side Of The Tracks.flac





+ 04/22/1963 CO 78272 On The Other Side Of The Tracks (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh)
* 04/22/1963 CO 78271 Young And Foolish (A. Horwitt, A. Hague)
*+ 04/22/1963 CO 78270 Keep Smiling At Trouble (Buddy DeSylva, Al Jolson, Lewis E. Gensler)
* 04/22/1963 CO 78273 Autumn In Rome (Sammy Cahn, Paul Weston, A. Cicognini)
*+ 04/24/1963 CO 78289 True Blue Lou (Leo Robin, Sam Coslow, Whiting)
+ 04/24/1963 CO 78290 Got Her Off My Hands (But Can't Get Her Off My Mind) (Unknown)
04/24/1963 CO 78291 The Moment Of Truth (T. Satterwhite, F. Scott)
* 04/26/1963 CO 78297 The Way That I Feel (Unknown)
* 04/26/1963 CO 78300 Tricks (Bob Haymes, Alan Brandt)
* 04/26/1963 CO 78299 Long About Now (Unknown)
*+ 04/26/1963 CO 78298 Sandy's Smile (Unknown)
04/26/1963 CO 78296 This Is All I Ask (Gordon Jenkins)

* = only LP appearance
+ = not available on cd



Date: April 22, 1963
Location: 30th Street, New York

Tony Bennett (ldr), Ralph Burns (con, a), Tony Bennett (v)
a. CO 78270 Keep Smiling At Trouble (Buddy DeSylva, Al Jolson, Lewis E. Gensler)
b. CO 78271 Young And Foolish (A. Horwitt, A. Hague)
Columbia CD: CK 66504 — I Wanna Be Around
c. CO 78272 On The Other Side Of The Tracks (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh)
Columbia LP 12": KG 33376 — Let's Fall In Love With The Songs Of Harold Arlen And Cy Coleman (1975)
d. CO 78273 Autumn In Rome (Sammy Cahn, Paul Weston, A. Cicognini)
Columbia CD: CK 66504 — I Wanna Be Around
All titles on: Columbia LP 12": CL 2056 — This Is All I Ask (1963)
Columbia LP 12": CS 8856 — This Is All I Ask (1963)
Date: April 24, 1963
Location: CBS 30th Street Studio, New York,NY

Ralph Burns (con, a), Ralph Sharon Trio (acc), Tony Bennett (v)
a. CO 78289 True Blue Lou (Leo Robin, Sam Coslow, Whiting)
Columbia 45: 4-42820 (1963)
Columbia LP 12": CL 2056 — This Is All I Ask (1963)
Columbia LP 12": CS 8856 — This Is All I Ask (1963)
b. CO 78290 Got Her Off My Hands (But Can't Get Her Off My Mind) (Unknown)
Columbia LP 12": CL 2056 — This Is All I Ask (1963)
Columbia LP 12": CS 8856 — This Is All I Ask (1963)
Columbia CD: CK 66504 — I Wanna Be Around
c. CO 78291 The Moment Of Truth (T. Satterwhite, F. Scott)
Columbia 45: 4-42931 (1963)
Columbia LP 12": CL 2056 — This Is All I Ask (1963)
Columbia LP 12": CS 8856 — This Is All I Ask (1963)
Columbia LP 12": CS 9173 — Tony's Greatest Hits, Vol. III (1965)
Columbia LP 12": CL 2373 — Tony's Greatest Hits, Vol. III (1965)
Columbia CD: CK 66504 — I Wanna Be Around
Columbia CD: C4K 46843 — Forty Years - The Artistry Of Tony Bennett (1991)
Columbia Legacy CD: 92784 — Fifty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett (2004)
d. CO 78292 The Heart That Broke Was Mine (Unknown)
Date: April 26, 1963
Location: 30th Street, New York

Tony Bennett (ldr), Ralph Burns (con, a), Tony Bennett (v)
a. CO 78296 This Is All I Ask (Gordon Jenkins)
Columbia 45: 4-42820 (1963)
Columbia 45: 4-33080 (1965)
Columbia LP 12": CL 2373 — Tony's Greatest Hits, Vol. III (1965)
Columbia LP 12": CS 9173 — Tony's Greatest Hits, Vol. III (1965)
Columbia LP 12": C 30240 — Sings His All-Time Hall Of Fame Hits (1970)
Columbia LP 12": KG 31494 — All-Time Greatest Hits (1972)
Columbia CD: C4K 46843 — Forty Years - The Artistry Of Tony Bennett (1991)
Columbia CD: CK 65405 — Sings His All-Time Hall of Fame Hits (1997)
Columbia CD: CK 65316 — All-Time Greatest Hits (1997)
Sony International CD: 91207 — The Essential Tony Bennett: A Retrospective (1999)
Columbia Legacy CD: 86634 — The Essential Tony Bennett (2002)
Columbia Legacy CD: 92784 — Fifty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett (2004)
b. CO 78297 The Way That I Feel (Unknown)
Columbia CD: CK 66504 — I Wanna Be Around
c. CO 78298 Sandy's Smile (Unknown)
d. CO 78299 Long About Now (Unknown)
Columbia CD: CK 66504 — I Wanna Be Around
e. CO 78300 Tricks (Bob Haymes, Alan Brandt)
Columbia CD: CK 66504 — I Wanna Be Around
All titles on: Columbia LP 12": CL 2056 — This Is All I Ask (1963)
Columbia LP 12": CS 8856 — This Is All I Ask (1963)





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