MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett

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MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett
Live album by Tony Bennett
Released	1994
Recorded	April 15, 1994
Genre	Jazz
Label	Columbia Records
Producer	David Kahne
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link
Tony Bennett chronology
Steppin' Out (1993) MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett (1994) Here's To The Ladies (1995)

MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett is a live album by Tony Bennett, released in 1995.

This album capped Bennett's unlikely commercial comeback story. Finding a new, younger audience without changing his music one bit and backed by his usual Ralph Sharon Trio, Bennett appeared on MTV Unplugged, which despite being a superfluous platform ("I've always been unplugged!" Bennett happily noted), showcased his love of the Great American Songbook to a crowd that appreciated the genuine stylist for what he was. Iconoclastic rock and country stars Elvis Costello and k.d. lang made guest appearances.

The album reached platinum record status in the United States, Bennett's best-seller ever. And not only did it win him the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance for the third straight year, he more unexpectedly won the top prize of Album of the Year.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Old Devil Moon" (E.Y. Harburg, Burton Lane) - 2:28
2. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) - 3:10
3. "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) - 3:13
4. "I Love a Piano" (Irving Berlin) - 1:56
5. "It Amazes Me" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 3:08
6. "The Girl I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:59
7. "Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) - 2:57
8. "You're All the World to Me" (Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) - 2:15
9. "Rags to Riches" (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) - 1:23
10. "When Joanna Loved Me" (Jack Segal, Robert Wells) - 3:15
11. "The Good Life"/"I Wanna Be Around" (Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon)/(Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstadt) - 3:21
12. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (George Cory, Douglass Cross) - 2:35
13. "Steppin' Out With My Baby" (Berlin) - 3:12
14. "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills) - 4:33
15. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 3:26
16. "A Foggy Day" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 2:15
17. "All of You" (Cole Porter) - 2:35
18. "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) - 3:53
19. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Mills) - 3:37
20. "Autumn Leaves"/"Indian Summer" (Joseph Kosma, Mercer, Jacques Prévert)/(Al Dubin, Victor Herbert) - 5:49

[edit] Personnel

• Tony Bennett - vocals
• Ralph Sharon - piano
• Doug Richeson - double bass
• Clayton Cameron - drums

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