TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.5943
Tony Bennett Album Rankings
1
When this impressive box set was released in 1991, it put the capstone upon Tony Bennett's remarkable return to prominence by looking back at a legacy that had been overshadowed by that of the colossu
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2
With British arranger/conductorRobert Farnonhandling the trans-Atlantic sessions, Tony Bennett's 1968 Christmas album turned into a swinging affair, from the version of "My Favorite Things" fromThe So
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4
Along with his producer,Ernest Altschuler, and his arranger/pianist,Ralph Sharon, Tony Bennett had been searching for a repertoire and a musical approach beyond his long-gone pop work withMitch Miller
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5
16 Most Requested Songsis a nice, budget-priced collection of Tony Bennett's hits that provides an adequate introduction, but it is far from a definitive collection.
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6
On only his third full-length, 12-inch LP, Tony Bennett comes up with a concept album, singing against novel percussion arrangements, backed by drummers likeArt Blakey,Jo Jones,Chico Hamilton,Billy Ex
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7
The 20 tracks on this anthology cover Bennett's entire career at Columbia, from his 1951 number one single "Because of You" to "Mood Indigo" from 1999'sHot and Cool: Bennett Sings Ellington.
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8
As with most of Frank Sinatra's 1993 Duets (on which Tony Bennett appeared), Classic teams the singer, 80, with artists at least a generation younger than himself.
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9
He was just a teen idol, a dreamboat derided by adult critics as ''almost a parody-pure screaming agony.
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10
A different sort of Tony Bennett compilation than the usual, Sings the Ultimate American Songbook, Vol.
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11
Reviewing a Tony Bennett record is, I suppose, beside the point. Mr. Anthony Benedetto of Astoria, Queens has been singing popular music at the top levels for almost a half-century.
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12
Perfectly Frank is just that -- a group of covers that came to define Frank Sinatra as a vocal legend. Here, Tony Bennett pays homage to "the Voice" in a way only he can.
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14
Duets with K.D. Lang and Elvis Costello only demonstrate that Bennett's voice is like fine wine--improving with age.
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24
Think of Tony Bennett now, in 2004, as both an aging legend and a still-singular entertainer, a performer who is still doing exactly what he started doing 50 years ago: giving graceful, subtly emotio
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27
Life is a Song compiles highlights from the 1959 album Basie Swings, Bennett Sings and the 1961 record Bennett and Basie Strike Up The Band, which were both released on Roulette Records.
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28
Tony Bennett recorded two albums with Count Basie and His Orchestra under a contractual agreement giving one of the records to Bennett's label, Columbia, and the other to Basie's, Roulette.
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29
Tony Bennett's latter-day albums tend to have themes, and this one has two, as indicated by its double-barreled title: It is both a duets album and a blues album.
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50
Tony Bennett returned to the Top 40 in late 1964 with his version of the Leslie Bricusse-Anthony Newley anthem "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)," from Newley's Broadway show The Roar Of The
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55
CBS Special Products first assembled this ten-track budget compilation of Tony Bennett's Columbia Records recordings spanning 1951-1971 in 1982, and it has been reissued periodically since, first by
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