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This Is All I Ask (album)

This Is All I Ask is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1963.

This Is All I Ask
Studio album by
Tony Bennett
ReleasedJuly 1963[1]
RecordedApril 22–26, 1963
StudioCBS 30th Street (New York City)
GenreVocal jazz
Length32:48
LabelColumbia
CL 2056
CS 8856
ProducerErnie Altschuler
Tony Bennett chronology
I Wanna Be Around...
(1963) 		This Is All I Ask
(1963) 		The Many Moods of Tony
(1964)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Record Mirror[2]

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[3] 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[4]

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.[5]

Reception

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Variety notes "[Bennett's] vocal mood gets added musical highlights through highlights"[6]

Track listing

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  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

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References

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  1. ^ Billboard Aug 10, 1963
  2. ^ "Tony Bennett: This Is All I Ask" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 158. 21 March 1964. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's top pop albums : 1955-1996 : compiled from Billboard magazine's pop album charts, 1955-1996. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-8982-0117-8.
  4. ^ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 28. ISBN 0-8108-2005-6.
  5. ^ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  6. ^ "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". Variety. Vol. 231, no. 10. July 31, 1963. p. 92.
 

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