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Tony Makes It Happen
Studio album by Tony Bennett
Released	April 1967
Recorded	November 26, 1966 (#3, 9) January 12, 1967 (#1, 10–11) January 18, 1967 (#4–5) January 27, 1967 (#2, 6–8)
Studio	Columbia 30th Street (New York City)
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	30:20
Label	Columbia CL 2653 CS 9453
Producer	Ernie Altschuler
Tony Bennett chronology
A Time for Love (1966) Tony Makes It Happen (1967) For Once in My Life (1967)

Tony Makes It Happen is an album by American singer Tony Bennett, originally released in 1967 on Columbia as CL 2653.

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated May 13, of that year, and remained on the album chart for 6 weeks, peaking at No. 178 it also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated April 15, of that year, and remained on the chart for 7 weeks, peaking at 73

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.

Track listing

1. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 2:21
2. "A Beautiful Friendship" (Donald Kahn, Stanley Styne) – 2:28
3. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 2:02
4. "What Makes It Happen" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) – 2:54
5. "The Lady's in Love with You" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) – 1:43
6. "Can't Get Out of This Mood" (Jimmy McHugh, Frank Loesser) – 3:40
7. "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 3:24
8. "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 2:00
9. "Country Girl" (Robert Farnon) – 3:37
10. "Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane, E.Y. Harburg – 3:00
11. "She's Funny That Way" (Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting) – 3:11

Personnel

• Tony Bennett – vocals
• Marion Evans – conductor, arranger
• Bobby Tricarico – tenor sax
• Joe Newman, Joe Wilder – trumpet
• Urbie Green – trombone
• Joe Soldo – flute
• John Bunch – piano
• Corky Hale – harp
• Milt Hinton – bass
• Sol Gubin – drums
• Unidentified strings

References

1. Billboard Apr 8, 1967
2. At Avax
3. 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.
4. Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 28. ISBN 0-8108-2005-6.
5. "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.

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