This Is All I Ask (album) explained

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]

Reception

Variety notes "[Bennett's] vocal mood gets added musical highlights through highlights"[5]

Track listing

  1. "Keep Smiling at Trouble" (Buddy G. DeSylvia, Al Jolson, Lewis E. Gensler) – 2:08
  2. "Autumn in Rome" (Sammy Cahn, Paul Weston, Alessandro Cicognini) – 2:19
  3. "True Blue Lou" (Richard A. Whiting, Leo Robin, Sam Coslow) – 2:46
  4. "The Way That I Feel" – 2:58
  5. "This Is All I Ask" (Gordon Jenkins) – 3:17
  6. "The Moment of Truth" (Tex Satterwhite, Frank Scott) – 2:14
  7. "Got Her Off My Hands" – 2:04
  8. "Sandy's Smile" – 3:13
  9. "Long About Now" – 2:45
  10. "Young and Foolish" – 3:26
  11. "Tricks" – 1:52
  12. "On the Other Side of the Tracks" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 3:46

Recorded April 22, 1963 (#1–2, 10, 12), April 24, 1963 (#3, 6–7), April 26, 1963 (#4–5, 8–9, 11).

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=WAsEAAAAMBAJ&q=bennett+this+is+All+I+Ask+2056&pg=PA10 Billboard Aug 10, 1963
  2. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn's top pop albums : 1955-1996 : compiled from Billboard magazine's pop album charts, 1955-1996 . 1996 . Record Research . 978-0-8982-0117-8 . Menomonee Falls, Wis. . 74.
  3. Book: Hoffmann, Frank W . The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974 . 1988 . Scarecrow Press . 0-8108-2005-6 . Metuchen, N.J. . 28.
  4. Web site: The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett . 8 October 2024 . allmusic.com .
  5. July 31, 1963 . Variety Album Reviews Sherman's Nut, Bennett's Ask, Fontaine's Crazy, Ive's Easy, Cole's Summer Top New LP: This Is All I Ask . . 92 . 231 . 10.