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Yesterday I Heard the Rain (1968)

Where the lyrics of Yesterday I Heard the Rain take you, and where it was really made.

Neither single reached the Billboard Hot 100 proper, yet 'A Fool of Fools' climbed to number 12 on the Easy Listening chart.

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Yesterday I Heard the Rain: 26th studio album by American singer Tony Bennett
Released July 22, 1968 on Columbia Records
Mix of original songs and covers
Covers include Love Is Here to Stay, I Only Have Eyes for You, and There Will Never Be Another You
Singles: A Fool of Fools, the title track Yesterday I Heard the Rain, and Hushabye Mountain
Included in the CD box set The Complete Collection, issued by Sony Music Distribution on November 8, 2011

1	Yesterday I Heard the Rain
2	Hi‐Ho
3	Hushabye Mountain
4	Home Is the Place
5	Love Is Here to Stay
6	Get Happy
7	Fool of Fools
8	I Only Have Eyes for You
9	Sweet Georgie Fame
10	Only the Young
11	There Will Never Be Another You

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.

Variety said the rest of the album is a solid mix of oldies and recent ballads
Billboard praised the arrangements and orchestrations as rich and lush, a perfect match for Bennett's smooth style
Cash Box called the album warm and romantic, and named the title track, Love Is Here to Stay, I Only Have Eyes for You, and There Will Never Be Another You as standout efforts
Record World, in its Album Pick of the Week section, said Bennett sings beautifully and described the mix as juicy, lush ballads and uptempo numbers

Will Friedwald, in a Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, found the album terrific
Friedwald added that, like Bennett's other late-1960s albums, it did not measure up to his earlier long-playing projects

A Fool of Fools bubbled under the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the issue dated March 18, 1968, peaking at number 119
A Fool of Fools reached number 12 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart
A Fool of Fools peaked at number 95 on the Cash Box singles chart
Yesterday I Heard the Rain spent two weeks on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart in the issue dated April 28, 1968, peaking at number 130
Yesterday I Heard the Rain reached number 10 on the Easy Listening chart

Italian Wikipedia gives the album's release year as 1968 and lists 11 tracks.
Italian Wikipedia adds the Spanish alternate title Esta tarde vi llover to the title track.
Hushabye Mountain, one of the album's singles, is the third track in the Italian Wikipedia listing.