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Here's to the Ladies is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1995.[2]

The theme of the album was songs made famous by female singers. The album won Bennett the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.[3] It peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Traditional Jazz Albums chart.[4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
Entertainment WeeklyA[6]

Entertainment Weekly wrote that Bennett's "sensitivity to the distaff side of prerock music balances the craggy muscularity of his vocal style."[6]

Track listing

  1. "People" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) 4:44 – Barbra Streisand tribute
  2. "I'm in Love Again" (Peggy Lee, Cy Coleman) 3:52 – Peggy Lee tribute
  3. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) 3:59 – Judy Garland tribute
  4. "My Love Went to London" (T. Seibetta, John Wallowitch) 5:11 – Blossom Dearie tribute
  5. "Poor Butterfly" (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell) 5:43 – Sarah Vaughan tribute
  6. "Sentimental Journey" (Les Brown, Bud Green, Ben Homer) 3:29 – Doris Day tribute
  7. "Cloudy Morning" (Marvin Fisher, Joseph Allan McCarthy) 4:44 – Carmen McRae tribute
  8. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) 3:47 – Rosemary Clooney tribute
  9. "Down in the Depths (On the Ninetieth Floor)" (Cole Porter) 2:11 – Mabel Mercer tribute
  10. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) 2:53 – Margaret Whiting tribute
  11. "Tangerine" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) 4:06 – Helen O'Connell tribute
  12. "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) 2:51 – Billie Holiday tribute
  13. "Daybreak" (Harold Adamson, Ferde Grofé) 3:45 – Dinah Washington tribute
  14. "You Showed Me the Way" (Ella Fitzgerald, Green, Teddy McRae, Chick Webb) 5:31 – Ella Fitzgerald tribute
  15. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) 2:57 – Lena Horne tribute
  16. "Maybe This Time" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) 3:26 – Liza Minnelli tribute
  17. "I Got Rhythm" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) 2:01 – Ethel Merman tribute
  18. "My Ideal" (Newell Chase, Leo Robin, Richard Whiting) 1:55 – Margaret Whiting tribute

Personnel

  • Tony Bennett – vocals
  • Ralph Sharon – piano
  • Clayton Cameron – drums
  • Doug Richeson – double bass
  • Lew Soloff – trumpet solos
  • unidentified session orchestra and big band (except for tracks 8, 10, 12, 16, 17 & 18)
  • Jorge Calandrelli – arranger, conductor of the orchestral charts (tracks 2, 4–7, 13–15)
  • Bill Holman – arranger, conductor of the Big Band charts (tracks 1, 3, 9, 11)

References

  1. ^ "Here's To The Ladies". tonybennett.com.
  2. ^ "Tony Bennett Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  3. ^ "Tony Bennett". Recording Academy. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Tony Bennett". Billboard.
  5. ^ "Here's to the Ladies – Tony Bennett | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  6. ^ a b "Here's to the Ladies". EW.com.
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