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With Love (1972)

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Tony Bennett's 1972 album With Love peaked only at number 167 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart, yet Sony later included it in a 2011 box set.

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With Love is a 1972 album by Tony Bennett
Eleven tracks in total
Opens with "The Riviera" by Cy Coleman and Joseph Allen McCarthy, 2:45
Track list runs from "Remind Me" to "Maybe This Time", the closing song at 4:05
Songs credited to Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen, Sam M. Lewis and Victor Young, and others
Personnel: Tony Bennett on vocals, John Bunch on piano
Robert Farnon credited as arranger and conductor

Peaked at number 167 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart
On November 8, 2011, Sony Music Distribution included the CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tony Bennett's 11-track album With Love came out in 1972
Robert Farnon is credited as arranger and conductor
John Bunch plays piano, and Bennett sings all vocals
Johnny Mercer is credited as lyricist on three tracks: "Twilight World", "Harlem Butterfly", and "Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)"
The shortest track is "Harlem Butterfly" at 2:27, and the longest is "Maybe This Time" at 4:05

On November 8, 2011, Sony Music Distribution included the CD in the box set The Complete Collection

Sony Music Distribution added the CD to The Complete Collection box set on November 8, 2011.
Robert Farnon is also a co-writer of "Lazy Day in Love", credited with Milt Raskin.
The personnel credits list only three names: Bennett, John Bunch on piano, and Farnon.
The album opens with "The Riviera" by Cy Coleman and Joseph Allen McCarthy.
Johnny Mercer is credited on three of the eleven songs.