The Movie Song Album

The Movie Song Album
Studio album by
Tony Bennett
ReleasedJanuary 31, 1966[1]
RecordedSeptember 26, 1965 (#7)
December 14, 1965 (#2, 5, 11)
CBS Studio A, Los Angeles
December 27, 1965 (#1, 8–9)
December 28, 1965 (#3–4, 6)
December 29, 1965 (#10, 12)
CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City
GenreVocal jazz
Length37:04
LabelColumbia
CL 2472
CS 9272
ProducerErnie Altschuler
Tony Bennett chronology
If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set
(1965) 		The Movie Song Album
(1966) 		A Time for Love
(1966)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Record Mirror[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]

The Movie Song Album is a 1966 studio album by Tony Bennett.[2] The album consists of songs from films, opening with the theme from The Oscar, in which Bennett had recently appeared. With this project of such high quality of song material and collaborators, he was to describe the album in his autobiography as his "all time favorite record".[5]

Johnny Mandel was the musical director, and he and Neal Hefti and Quincy Jones arranged and conducted their own compositions on the album. Luiz Bonfá played the guitar on his two songs, "Samba de Orfeu" and "The Gentle Rain". The pianists Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Rowles and Lou Levy all collaborated, each on one song.

Bennett's recording of "The Shadow of Your Smile" won Mandel and Paul Francis Webster the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards of 1966, and Bennett performed the song at the 38th Academy Awards, where it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated March 12, of that year, and remained on the album chart for 29 weeks, peaking at No. 18[6] it also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated March 12, of that year, and remained on the chart for in a total of 23 weeks, peaking at No. 26[7]

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.[8]

  1. ^ Tony Bennett.com
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference AllMusic was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 148. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  5. ^ Bennett, The Good Life, pp. 186–87.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 28. ISBN 0-8108-2005-6.
  8. ^ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.