This Is All I Ask | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Tony Bennett |
Cover: | This_Is_All_I_Ask.jpg |
Released: | July 1963[1] |
Recorded: | April 22–26, 1963 |
Studio: | CBS 30th Street (New York City) |
Genre: | Vocal jazz |
Length: | 32:48 |
Label: | Columbia CL 2056 CS 8856 |
Producer: | Ernie Altschuler |
Prev Title: | I Wanna Be Around... |
Prev Year: | 1963 |
Next Title: | The Many Moods of Tony |
Next Year: | 1964 |
This Is All I Ask is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1963.
The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated August 24, of that year, and remained on the album chart for 30 weeks, peaking at No. 24[2] it also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated August 17, of that year, and remained on the chart for in a total of 30 weeks, peaking at 14[3]
Sony Music Distribution included this CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection, which contains fifty-eight of his studio albums, 4 compilation, three DVDs, six volumes of Bennett’s non-album singles, a previously unreleased CD of his Las Vegas debut from 1964, and two discs of rarities, including Bennett’s first recording, an Army V-Disc of “St. James Infirmary Blues, and was released on November 8, 2011.[4]
Variety notes "[Bennett's] vocal mood gets added musical highlights through highlights"[5]
Recorded April 22, 1963 (#1–2, 10, 12), April 24, 1963 (#3, 6–7), April 26, 1963 (#4–5, 8–9, 11).