Tony Bennett

4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

INCLUDES 3 BONUS TRACKS

This release contains the complete original album "Hometown, My Town" (Columbia CS8107). Burns and Bennett had recorded a previous LP together, My Heart Sings (1961). After the sessions included on this LP, Bennett and Burns would collaborate again on the following LPs: This Is All I Ask (1963), A Time for Love (1966), For Once in My Life (1967), and Love Story (1971). A final reunion would take place in 1999 when they taped a number of songs together at The Hit Factory, in New York.

TONY BENNETT, vocals on all tracks
Orchestra conducted & arranged by RALPH BURNS

A1 & A3: Ed Caine, Walt Levinsky, J. Palmer, Romeo Penque (reeds),
Danny Bank (bar), Al De Risi, Bernie Glow, Irving “Marky” Markowitz,
Carl Poole (tp), Billy Byers, Urbie Green, Chauncey Welsch (tb), Al Caiola (g),
Pat Merola (b), Ralph Sharon (p), Janet Putman (harp), Seymour Barab, Burt Fisch, Howard Kay, Harvey Shapiro, Alan Shulman, Isadore Zirr (vcl, vln),
Terry Snyder (d), Don Lamond (per), Arnold Eidus, Julius Held, Max Hollander,
Leo Kruczek, Tosha Samoroff, H. Urbont, Maurice Wilk, Paul Winter (vln).
CBS 30th Street Studio, New York, November 3, 1958.

SIDE B: Ed Caine, J. Palmer, Romeo Penque (reeds), Toots Mondello (as, cl),
Al Cohn (ts), Danny Bank (bar), Al De Risi, Irving “Marky” Markowitz,
James Maxwell, Carl Poole (tp), Billy Byers, William Elton, Chauncey Welsch (tb),
Barry Galbraith (g), Milt Hinton (b), Ralph Sharon (p), Janet Putman (harp),
Seymour Barab, Harold Colletta, Burt Fisch, George Ricci, Lucien Schmidt,
Isadore Zirr (vcl, vln), Don Lamond (d), Eddie Costa (perc),
Harry Edison, Julius Held, Leo Kruczek, Harry Lookofsky, Tosha Samoroff,
Sol Shapiro, Maurice Wilk, Paul Winter (vln), Robert Abernathy,
Ranier C. De Intinis, Joseph Singer (other strings).
CBS 30th Street Studio, New York, November 4, 1958.

A2: Ed Caine, A. Epstein, J. Palmer, Romeo Penque (reeds), Toots Mondello (as,cl), Al De Risi, Bernie Glow, Irving “Marky” Markowitz, James Maxwell (tp),
Billy Byers, William Elton, Urbie Green (tb), Barry Galbraith (g), Pat Merola (b), Ralph Sharon (p), Janet Putman (harp), Seymour Barab, Harold Colletta,
Burt Fisch, George Ricci, Alan Shulman, Isadore Zirr (vcl, vln), Don Lamond (d), Eddie Costa (perc), Fred Buldrini, Julius Held, Max Hollander, Leo Kruczek,
David Nadien, Tosha Samoroff, Maurice Wilk, Paul Winter (vln),
Robert Abernathy, Ray Alonge, Richard L. Berg (other strings).
CBS 30th Street Studio, New York, November 6, 1958.

*BONUS TRACKS (B4-B6): BENNETT-BURNS SINGLES

Tony Bennett (vcl), Ralph Burns (arr, cond), George Auld (ts),
Irving “Marky” Markowitz (tp), Chauncey Welsch (tb), Richard L. Berg,
Earl Chapin, Donald Corrado, Al Richmond (frh), Allen Hanlon (g), Milt Hinton (b),
Ralph Sharon (p), Janet Putman (harp), Seymour Barab, S. Edwards,
George Ricci (vcl), Terry Snyder (d), Arnold Eidus, Lewis Eley, Leo Kruczek,
David Nadien, George Ockner, Gene Orloff, Irving Raymond, Tosha Samoroff,
Paul Winter (vln), Burt Fisch, Howard Kay, Isadore Zirr (vla).
CBS 30th Street Studio, New York, June 24, 1959

SIDE A:

01. THE SKYCRAPER BLUES
02. PENTHOUSE SERENADE
03. ALL BY MYSELF

SIDE B:

01. I COVER THE WATERFRONT
02. LOVE IS HERE TO STAY
03. THE PARTY’S OVER
04. YOU CAN’T LOVE ‘EM ALL (*)
05. ASK ANYONE IN LOVE (*)
06. SMILE (*)