| I Left My Heart in San Francisco | ||||
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| Released | June 18, 1962[1] | |||
| Recorded | October 1957–January 1962 | |||
| Studio | CBS 30th Street (New York City) | |||
| Genre | Classic pop | |||
| Length | 32:20 | |||
| Label | Columbia CL 1869 CS 8669 | |||
| Producer | Ernie Altschuler | |||
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| AllMusic |  [2] |
| Record Mirror |  [3] |
I Left My Heart in San Francisco is an album by American singer Tony Bennett, released in 1962 on Columbia Records. The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated October 13, of that year, and remained on the album chart for 149 weeks, peaking at No. 5[4] and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. Originally available as Columbia rekey CL 1869 (mono) and CS 8669 (stereo), it is one of the best-selling albums of Bennett's career.
Tony Bennett won two 1962 Grammy Awards for the title song: Record of the Year and Best Solo Vocal Performance, Male.
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]
- ^ Tony Bennett.com
- ^ Ruhlmann, William. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco – Tony Bennett". AllMusic. Retrieved July 21, 2023.
- ^ Watson, Jimmy (25 January 1964). "Tony Bennett: I Left My Heart In San Francisco" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 150. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.