Bennett,Tony Singles Collection 1951-62 CD

Tony Bennett ranks among the most popular, successful and highly-respected popular vocalists of the last half-century and more, so much so that a full sixty years after his chart debut in 1951, his credibility among the contemporary pop audience was such that he achieved his 70th chart hit in 2011 with a duet with Lady Ga-Ga. He was one of the many successful crooners of the post-war era to come from the diaspora of Italian immigrant families in the north-western states of the USA, and build a career first as a hit singles artist, and then a major album seller, before achieving appreciation among music fans who weren't born when he made his chart debut. With an apparently effortless ability to deliver a song exactly as it feels it should be done, and a relaxed and assured demeanour, he is one of the peerless performers in popular music. This great-value 78-track 3-CD set comprises a substantial proportion of the A & B sides of the sixty or so singles he released during the first decade and more of his career, with at least one side of most releases included, and naturally features all the 38 US and UK chart hits which he enjoyed during that period, including his signature song I Left My Heart In San Francisco plus the classic No. 1s Because Of You, Cold Cold Heart, Rags To Riches & Stranger In Paradise. It's a hugely entertaining insight into the early career of a unique talent

1. Don't Cry Baby 2. One Lie Leads to Another 3. I Can't Give You Anything But Love 4. Beautiful Madness 5. Because of You 6. I Won't Cry Anymore 7. While We're Young 8. Cold Cold Heart 9. Solitaire 10. Blue Velvet 11. Since My Love Has Gone 12. Somewhere Along the Way 13. Here in My Heart 14. I'm Lost Again 15. Have a Good Time 16. Please My Love 17. You Could Make Me Smile Again 18. Roses of Yesterday 19. Boulevard of Broken Dreams 20. Once There Lived a Fool 21. Stay Where You Are 22. Anywhere I Wander 23. Congratulations to Someone 24. Take Me 25. No One Will Ever Know 26. I'm the King of Broken Hearts 27. I'll Go 28. Here Comes That Heartache Again 29. Rags to Riches 30. Why Does It Have to Be Me 31. Stranger in Paradise 32. There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight 33. My Heart Won't Say Goodbye 34. Please Driver Once Around the Park Again 35. Until Yesterday 36. Cinnamon Sinner 37. Take Me Back Again 38. Not As a Stranger 39. Funny Thing 40. Close Your Eyes 41. What Will I Tell My Heart? 42. Don't Tell Me Why 43. May I Never Love Again 44. How Can I Replace You 45. Afraid of the Dark 46. Come Next Spring 47. Sing You Sinners 48. Capri in May 49. Can You Find It in Your Heart 50. From the Candy Store on the Corner to the Chapel 51. Happiness Street 52. Just in Time 53. Autumn Waltz 54. Sold to the Man with the Broken Heart 55. One for My Baby 56. In the Middle of An Island 57. I Am 58. Ca C'est L'amour 59. Love Song from Beauty and the Beast 60. Beat of My Heart 61. Young and Warm and Wonderful 62. Firefly 63. Love Look Away 64. It's So Peaceful in the Country 65. Smile 66. Climb Ev'ry Mountain 67. Ask Anyone in Love 68. I'll Bring You a Rainbow 69. Put on a Happy Face 70. Till 71. Marriage-Go-Round 72. Ramona 73. The Best Is Yet to Come 74. Tender Is the Night 75. I Left My Heart in San Francisco 76. Once Upon a Time 77. Candy Kisses 78. I Wanna Be Around