| Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album | ||||
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| Studio album by Tony Bennett | ||||
| Released | November 6, 1968 | |||
| Recorded | June 1967, CTS Bayswater, London, October 1, 1968, and 30th Street Studios, New York City, New York | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 52:30 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Ernie Altschuler | |||
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Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album is a 1968 studio album by Tony Bennett, it is Bennett's first Christmas album.[2] The album was arranged and conducted by Robert Farnon.
Though friends since the early 1950s, Bennett and Farnon had not recorded together before, Bennett having such reverence for Farnon's work that he felt he "wasn't ready...(and) not developed enough as an artist to record with him".[3] Farnon, who normally recorded in London, came to New York for one of the two sessions that produced this album. Six tracks were recorded in New York, and four in London for Snowfall.
In Bennett's autobiography he recalls that the New York session was attended by such notable American arrangers as Don Costa, Marion Evans and Torrie Zito, all curious to see how Farnon worked. Quincy Jones subsequently threw a party for Farnon in New York, at the party there were so many famous musicians that Jones joked, "If a bomb goes off in this apartment, there won't be any more records made!"[4]
The album was reissued on CD in 1994, with new cover art and a bonus track, "I'll Be Home for Christmas", recorded during a live appearance by Bennett on The Jon Stewart Show. It was reissued again in 2007, again with different cover art and with the inclusion of a bonus DVD containing excerpts from Bennett's 1992 television special Tony Bennett: A Family Christmas.
Bennett's second Christmas album, A Swingin' Christmas (Featuring The Count Basie Big Band), was released in 2008.
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