Tony Bennett-The Movie Song Album (LP rip)

By the mid-1960s, retreating from the rock & roll onslaught, that old-time staple of the pre-rock days, the big romantic ballad, had been relegated to Hollywood, where it turned up in the opening and closing credits of movies. Like other classic pop singers, Tony Bennett had sought it out there, and with this album, coincident with his first (and last) acting role in The Oscar, he devoted himself exclusively to movie themes, everything from "The Trolley Song" (Meet Me In St. Louis) to "Days Of Wine And Roses." Some of the tunes were not first-rate, but in "The Shadow Of Your Smile" and "The Second Time Around" (previously recorded by Frank Sinatra), Bennett found material worthy of him, and even when he was faced with minor material, be sang movingly. ~ William Ruhlmann, AMG

Track Listings:
01-Song from "The Oscar" (Maybe September) (J. Livingston-R. Evans-P. Faith) 4:02
02-Girl Talk [Harlow] (B. Troup-N. Hefti) 3:12
03-The Gentle Rain (M. Dubey-L. Bonfa) 2:13
04-Emily [Americanization of Emily] (J. Mercer-J. Mandel) 3:24
05-The Paawnbroker (J. Lawrence-Q. Jones) 3:07
06-Samba de Orfeu [Black Orfeus] (L. Bonfa) 2:08
07-The Shadow of Your Smile [The Sandpiper] (P. F. Webster-J. Mandel) 3:36
08-Smile [Modern Times] (G. Parsons-C. Chaplin) 3:34
09-The Second Time Around [High Time] (S. Cahn-J. Van Heusen) 2:41
10-Days of Wine and Roses (J. Mercer-H. Mancini) 2:59
11-Never Too Late (J. Livingston-R. Evans-D. Rose) 3:21
12-The Trolley Song [Meet Me in St. Louis] (H. Martin-R. Blane) 2:36

Personnel: Tony Bennett, vocal
Orchestra under the direction of Johny Mandel
Recorded: 1966