Here's to the Ladies
1995 studio album by Tony Bennett
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Here's to the Ladies is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1995.[2]
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| Released | October 24, 1995[1] | |||
| Recorded | March–July 1995 | |||
| Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
| Length | 67:17 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | David Kahne | |||
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The theme of the album was songs made famous by female singers. The album won Bennett the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.[3] It peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Traditional Jazz Albums chart.[4]
On November 8, 2011, Sony Music Distribution included the CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection.[5]
Critical reception
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [6] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A[7] |
| Music Week | [8] |
Entertainment Weekly wrote that Bennett's "sensitivity to the distaff side of prerock music balances the craggy muscularity of his vocal style."[7]
Track listing
- "People" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) 4:44 – Barbra Streisand tribute
- "I'm in Love Again" (Peggy Lee, Cy Coleman) 3:52 – Peggy Lee tribute
- "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) 3:59 – Judy Garland tribute
- "My Love Went to London" (T. Seibetta, John Wallowitch) 5:11 – Blossom Dearie tribute
- "Poor Butterfly" (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell) 5:43 – Sarah Vaughan tribute
- "Sentimental Journey" (Les Brown, Bud Green, Ben Homer) 3:29 – Doris Day tribute
- "Cloudy Morning" (Marvin Fisher, Joseph Allan McCarthy) 4:44 – Carmen McRae tribute
- "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) 3:47 – Rosemary Clooney tribute
- "Down in the Depths (On the Ninetieth Floor)" (Cole Porter) 2:11 – Mabel Mercer tribute
- "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) 2:53 – Margaret Whiting tribute
- "Tangerine" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) 4:06 – Helen O'Connell tribute
- "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) 2:51 – Billie Holiday tribute
- "Daybreak" (Harold Adamson, Ferde Grofé) 3:45 – Dinah Washington tribute
- "You Showed Me the Way" (Ella Fitzgerald, Green, Teddy McRae, Chick Webb) 5:31 – Ella Fitzgerald tribute
- "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) 2:57 – Lena Horne tribute
- "Maybe This Time" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) 3:26 – Liza Minnelli tribute
- "I Got Rhythm" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) 2:01 – Ethel Merman tribute
- "My Ideal" (Newell Chase, Leo Robin, Richard Whiting) 1:55 – Margaret Whiting tribute
Personnel
- Tony Bennett – vocals
- Ralph Sharon – piano
- Clayton Cameron – drums
- Doug Richeson – double bass
- Lew Soloff – trumpet solos
- unidentified session orchestra and big band (except for tracks 8, 10, 12, 16, 17 & 18)
- Jorge Calandrelli – arranger, conductor of the orchestral charts (tracks 2, 4–7, 13–15)
- Bill Holman – arranger, conductor of the Big Band charts (tracks 1, 3, 9, 11)