Time: 44:32
Size: 102.0 MB
Styles: Vocal
Year: 1963
Art: Front
[2:14] 1. The Good Life
[3:18] 2. If I Love Again
[2:10] 3. I Wanna Be Around..
[1:44] 4. I've Got Your Number
[2:51] 5. Until I Met You
[1:59] 6. Once Upon A Summertime
[2:14] 7. If You Were Mine
[2:26] 8. I Will Live My Life For You
[1:57] 9. Someone To Love
[3:04] 10. It Was Me
[3:15] 11. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)
[2:14] 12. Autumn In Rome
[2:55] 13. The Way That I Feel
[2:13] 14. The Moment Of Truth
[1:59] 15. Got Her Off My Hands (But Can't Get Her Off My Mind)
[2:41] 16. 'long About Now
[3:21] 17. Young And Foolish (From 'Plain And Fancy')
[1:47] 18. Tricks
While there is no shortage of masterful Tony Bennett albums, the Bennett of the 1960s is one of the most finely honed voices of popular music. 'I Wanna Be Around' shades more toward the 'popular' (soft swing) style than jazz, but delivers two of the singer's signature numbers and much more. 'The Good Life' and the title track are inextricably part of the Bennett story - combining a bit of the soaring, almost operatic passages with the almost conversational. Throughout, you can sense these songs fit the singer like a custom tailored suit. I agree with one of the other reviewers -- if 'I Wanna Be Around' doesn't have you reaching for the 'repeat' button, you're really missing something special.
The songs are fully up to the performance, plenty of Johnny Mercer numbers, plus Coleman and Leigh's pleasing 'I've Got Your Number' which finds singer phrasing some clever lyrics in tempo with the arrangement that neither buries the singer nor buries him in excess accompaniment. Not as jazz-touched as 'I Wanna Be Around', but another example of a singer at his peak. The original album seems to have the better music, but the performances on the additional tracks from the 'This is All I Ask' album are a satisfying way to round out the otherwise short featured collection.
Antonio Carlos Jobim's 'Corcovado' -- a huge hit for Stan Getz and later interpreted by Sinatra on his album with Jobim -- seems less perfect. Beautiful song, sensational voice, but Bennett seems to grope his way through a few of the English lyrics. Fault the lyrics, translated from Portuguese -- they're not up to the music. Sinatra performs it wonderfully on his 1967 album, maybe because he was nearly 30 years into his career and Bennett was young on this 1962 version.
This may be too much detail for most people. The bottom line is that even Sinatra considered Tony Bennett the best popular singer of the century, and it is difficult NOT to reach that conclusion. All of his albums from this era -- including the concert at Carnegie Hall -- are a real treat. Highly recommended. ~Jon Warshawsky/Amazon
The songs are fully up to the performance, plenty of Johnny Mercer numbers, plus Coleman and Leigh's pleasing 'I've Got Your Number' which finds singer phrasing some clever lyrics in tempo with the arrangement that neither buries the singer nor buries him in excess accompaniment. Not as jazz-touched as 'I Wanna Be Around', but another example of a singer at his peak. The original album seems to have the better music, but the performances on the additional tracks from the 'This is All I Ask' album are a satisfying way to round out the otherwise short featured collection.
Antonio Carlos Jobim's 'Corcovado' -- a huge hit for Stan Getz and later interpreted by Sinatra on his album with Jobim -- seems less perfect. Beautiful song, sensational voice, but Bennett seems to grope his way through a few of the English lyrics. Fault the lyrics, translated from Portuguese -- they're not up to the music. Sinatra performs it wonderfully on his 1967 album, maybe because he was nearly 30 years into his career and Bennett was young on this 1962 version.
This may be too much detail for most people. The bottom line is that even Sinatra considered Tony Bennett the best popular singer of the century, and it is difficult NOT to reach that conclusion. All of his albums from this era -- including the concert at Carnegie Hall -- are a real treat. Highly recommended. ~Jon Warshawsky/Amazon
I Wanna Be Around
Thank you for this album.
ReplyDeleteI didn't have the bonus tracks and thanks for posting but I've downloaded it twice and it won't unpack.
ReplyDeleteI'm having the same problem as Captain Howdy. I get a message saying the 'file is either in an unknown format or damaged'.
ReplyDeleterezipped and reupped. new link! 01sept2017.
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DeleteQue decepção tive ao pensar em baixar algum album do Tony Bennett os links estão desativados,que tristeza a minha de ter encontrado até porque sou seguidor obrigado
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