| I Wanna Be Around... | ||||
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| Released | February 18, 1963[1] | |||
| Recorded | March 16, 1962–April 26, 1963 | |||
| Studio | CBS 30th Street (New York City) | |||
| Genre | Traditional pop, vocal jazz | |||
| Length | 27:21 original LP 44:39 CD reissue | |||
| Label | Columbia CL 2000 CS 8800 | |||
| Producer | Ernie Altschuler | |||
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| Allmusic |   [2] |
I Wanna Be Around... is a 1963 album by singer Tony Bennett.
The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated April 6, of that year, and remained on the album chart for 44 weeks, peaking at No. 5[3] it also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated March 16, of that year, and remained on the chart for in a total of 63 weeks, peaking at 2[4]
The album was released on compact disc by Columbia Records in 1995 as tracks 13 through 24 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 1 through 12 consisting of Bennett's breakthough studio album from June 1962, I Left My Heart in San Francisco.[5]
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.[6]
- ^ Tony Bennett.com
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
AllMusicwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ 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.
- ^ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 28. ISBN 0-8108-2005-6.
- ^ "I Left My Heart in San Francisco/I Wanna Be Around". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.