The Good Life (1962 song)
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"The Good Life" is a popular song by Sacha Distel and Jack Reardon , published in 1962.
The song is best known in a 1963 recording by Tony Bennett. He gained a number 18 hit on the U.S. pop singles chart with it; it also became one of his rarer UK hits, making it to number 27 there. "The Good Life" became one of Bennett's staple songs, and was featured on two of his top-selling albums, 1994's MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett and 2006's Duets: An American Classic, the latter featuring Billy Joel. Bennett also named his 1998 autobiography after the song. The song was "revived" as a 2007 pet food jingle.
[edit] Recorded versions
- Ann-Margret (1966)
- Tony Bennett (1963)
- Ray Brown
- Betty Carter (1963)
- Ray Charles
- Bobby Darin (1965)
- Lou Donaldson (1967)
- The Drifters (1965)
- Sammy Davis, Jr. (1966)
- Duke Ellington
- Marie Fredriksson (2004)
- Stephane Grappelli
- Jack Jones
- Kevin Hays
- Shirley Horn
- Ahmad Jamal
- Joe Locke
- Julie London
- Charles McPherson
- Carmen McRae (1972)
- Matt Monro
- Don Patterson
- Oscar Peterson
- Frank Sinatra (1964)
- Sonny Stitt
- Sarah Vaughan (1963)
- Nancy Wilson (1964)