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Love Is Here to Stay (2018)

Where the lyrics of Love Is Here to Stay take you, and where it was really made.

In 2018 Bennett re-recorded a song he first cut in 1949, and the gap between the two recordings became a Guinness World Records title: 68 years and 342 days.

Key places

Avatar Studios, New York (2018)

Recording site Power Station Studio — Discogs credits Avatar Studios as a place where the album was recorded. The pin uses the studio's listed coordinates. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Electric Lady Studios, New York (2018)

Recording site Electric Lady Studios — Discogs credits Electric Lady Studios as another recording location for the album, alongside Avatar Studios. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Love Is Here to Stay: collaborative studio album by Tony Bennett and Diana Krall
• Released 14 September 2018 by Verve Records and Columbia Records
• Features the New York-based jazz group Bill Charlap Trio
• All songs come from the Great American Songbook, composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin
• The first full-length project between Bennett and Krall

Background

• Bennett first recorded "Fascinating Rhythm" in 1949
• Re-recording the song for this album earned a Guinness World Records title for the longest time between an original recording and a re-recording of the same single by the same artist
• The span is 68 years and 342 days, according to the Guinness adjudicator
• Bennett and Krall have been friends for more than two decades
• Krall previously recorded on two Bennett albums: Duets: An American Classic (2006) and Playin' with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (2001)

Recording

• Recorded at Avatar Studios and Electric Lady Studios, both in New York
• Mastered at Sterling Sound
• Production and mixing: Dae Bennett; production: Bill Charlap; mastering: Greg Calbi
• Bennett sings on tracks 1, 2, and 4 to 12; Krall sings on tracks 1 to 11
• Krall arranged track 3; Bill Charlap arranged all tracks
• Piano: Bill Charlap; bass: Peter Washington; drums: Kenny Washington

Cover

• Creative direction: Josh Cheuse; photography: Mark Seliger; design: Coco Shinomiya
• Packaged in a jewel case with a transparent tray and a six-page folding booklet

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Early life

• Born Anthony Dominick Benedetto on August 3, 1926, in Long Island City, Queens, New York City.
• Grew up in poverty after his father, a grocer, became unable to work and died when Tony was ten.
• Sang for money from age 13 as a singing waiter in Italian restaurants in Queens.
• Attended New York's School of Industrial Art but dropped out at 16 to help support his family.

Military service

• Drafted into the U.S. Army in November 1944 and fought as an infantryman in the final stages of World War II.
• Stayed in Germany with the occupying force and sang with an Army Special Services band under the name Joe Bari.

Career

• Studied bel canto at the American Theatre Wing on the GI Bill; Pearl Bailey and Bob Hope helped launch him, and Hope shortened his name to Tony Bennett.
• Signed with Columbia Records in 1950; first number-one hit "Because of You" in 1951.
• Shifted toward jazz singing in the late 1950s; "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (1962) became his signature song.
• Declined commercially during the rock era and struggled with addiction and debt until a comeback in the late 1980s, managed by his son Danny.
• The 1994 MTV Unplugged album won the Grammy for Album of the Year.

Later career

• Collaborated with Lady Gaga from Cheek to Cheek (2014) through Love for Sale (2021).
• Won 20 Grammy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award, and sold more than 50 million records worldwide.
• Received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2005 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Co-founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens with Susan Crow.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

Reappraisal

• The Times: Chris Pearson gave the album four stars out of five
• Pearson wrote that Bennett's admirers have resigned themselves to his duet albums
• Pearson said this one is more palatable because it pairs him with Krall, among the few younger singers who share his appreciation of the Great American Songbook
• Pearson also named the Bill Charlap Trio as the backing trio
• Spectrum Culture: John Paul wrote that nothing on the album will rewrite the legacy of either artist
• Spectrum Culture: John Paul called it an enjoyable pairing of two of the classiest jazz vocalists still working
• AllMusic: Stephen Thomas Erlewine said the trio gives the pair empathetic support, keeping the album light and lush
• AllMusic: Erlewine called the album a charming testament to endurance
• DownBeat: Bobby Reed wrote that the duo offers delightful duets, with each vocalist delivering one solo rendition
• DownBeat: Reed compared Bennett's authoritative vocals and Krall's more delicate delivery to salt and pepper in a recipe
• JazzTimes: Lee Mergner wrote that the album further cemented Bennett's legacy as one of the greatest singers in American music

Records

• Guinness World Records: longest time between an original recording and a re-recording of the same single by the same artist
• Time span: 68 years and 342 days, according to the Guinness adjudicator

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Bennett first recorded "Fascinating Rhythm" in 1949, and this album's re-recording set the Guinness record.
• The Guinness adjudicator who presided over the record-setting timed the span at 68 years and 342 days.
• Krall had earlier joined Bennett on Duets: An American Classic (2006) and Playin' with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (2001).
• Bennett and Krall have been friends for more than two decades.
• Discogs lists Electric Lady Studios as a recording location alongside Avatar Studios.
• Mastering was done at Sterling Sound.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

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