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Tony Bennett on Holiday (1997)

Where the lyrics of Tony Bennett on Holiday take you, and where it was really made.

Its final track is a "duet" with Billie Holiday and Count Basie, but it was created electronically, and that track alone received poor notices.

Key places

Sound On Sound, New York (1997)

Recording site MSR Studios — Discogs lists Sound On Sound in New York among the studios where this album was recorded. The address listed for the site is 150 West 48th Street, under a Hilton entry. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Tony Bennett on Holiday: 1997 studio album by Tony Bennett
• Recorded in tribute to Billie Holiday
• Nineteen tracks, opening with "(In My) Solitude"
• Final track "God Bless the Child" is credited to Herzog and Billie Holiday, with Count Basie
• Released with a six-page gatefold booklet
• Included in The Complete Collection box set, released 8 November 2011 by Sony Music Distribution

Background

• Billie Holiday, known as Lady Day, is the subject of the tribute
• The final track is an electronically created duet with Holiday and Count Basie
• Bennett won a Grammy for this album in 1998

Recording

• Recorded at Clinton Recording Studio, National Edison Studios, and Sound On Sound in New York
• Mixed at Clinton Recording Studio and Sound On Sound
• Mastered at Masterdisk by Greg Calbi
• Engineer Frank Filipetti; mixing by Rob Eaton
• Recording engineers Keith Shortreed, Robert Friedrich and Joel Moss on tracks 1 to 18
• Personnel: Tony Bennett (vocals), Lew Soloff (trumpet), Ralph Sharon (piano), Jorge Calandrelli (arranger and conductor of string orchestra)

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

At release

• Released in 1997 as a studio album recorded in tribute to Billie Holiday
• The other tracks did not receive the poor notices that the final track received
• The final track "God Bless the Child" received poor notices
• That track is an electronically created duet with long-dead Lady Day and Count Basie
• The poor notices concern one track rather than the album as a whole

Records

• 1998: fifth Grammy Award for Bennett, Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, for this album
• Bennett's fifth Grammy overall, won for his work on this album
• 8 November 2011: CD included in the box set The Complete Collection by Sony Music Distribution
• Nineteen tracks in total; the last of them is the duet with Holiday and Basie

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The album was recorded in tribute to Billie Holiday, known as Lady Day
• The final track "God Bless the Child" is an electronically created duet with Holiday and Count Basie
• The Discogs release notes mention a six-page gatefold booklet
• Its CD later appeared in the 2011 box set The Complete Collection
• The first track is "(In My) Solitude"

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

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