Time After Time

Time After Time
PROFILE
Composer Jule Styne
Lyricist Sammy Cahn
Year Written 1947
About Time After Time
“Time After Time” was written in 1947 for the movie It Happened in Brooklyn. The song was introduced by Frank Sinatra and was a major hit for him. This song has been widely recorded by many artists.In his fine book The Jazz Standards, Al Gioia quotes Jule Styne as saying “It’s a man’s song — ‘Time After Time.’ When a woman sings it, it is drained of all its power, so to speak. The girls can’t do it.”Well, tell that to Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Anita O’Day and Cyndi Lauper.

Lyrics

Time after time
I tell myself that im
So lucky to be loving you

So lucky to be
The one you run to see
In the evening, when the day is through

I only know what I know
The passing years will show
Youve kept my love so young, so new

And time after time
Youll hear me say that im
So lucky to be loving you

Session / Album Information

1958

Time After Time was recorded on April 9, 1958 and released in 1958 on the album Long Ago and Far Away. It was arranged by Frank DeVol.

Time After Time

Listen to Time After Time on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 1958

This recording released on:

  • 1958:  Columbia LP 12″ (Mono): CL 1186 — Long Ago And Far Away
  • 1991:   Columbia House Music Collection CD: 2C2 8151 — The Great American Composers: Jule Styne
  • 2011:  Disc #12 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK2) Long Ago and Far Away

1964

“Time After Time” was recorded on April 8, 1964 and released in 2011 on Tony Bennett Live at the Sahara: From This Moment On, as part of the 2011 Complete Collection. It was arranged by Ralph Sharon.

Time After Time - Live at the Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, NV - April 1964

Listen to Time After Time - Live at the Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, NV - April 1964 on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 1964

This recording released on:

  • 2011: Disc #74 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK72) Tony Bennett Live at the Sahara: From This Moment On

1992

“Time After Time” was recorded in June 1992 and was released that year on Perfectly Frank. It was arranged by Ralph Sharon.

Time After Time

Listen to Time After Time on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 1992

This recording released on:

  • 1992: Columbia CD: CK 52965 — Perfectly Frank
  • 1992: CBS/Sony CD: SRCS-6565 — Perfectly Frank [Japan
  • 2011: Disc #58 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK57) Perfectly Frank

That Lucky Old Sun

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PROFILE
Composer Beasley Smith
Lyricist Haven Gillespie
Year Written 1949
About That Lucky Old Sun
“That Lucky Old Sun” was first recorded in 1949 by Frankie Laine, followed by recordings that year by Vaughan Monroe and His Orchestra, Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra. Other recordings include those by Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Ray Charles and Sam Cooke.

Lyrics

Up in the mornin’, out on the job
Work like the devil for my pay
But that lucky old sun has nothin’ to do
But roll around Heaven all day

Fuss with my woman, toil for my kids
Sweat till I’m wrinkled and gray
While that lucky old sun has nothin’ to do
But roll around Heaven all day

Good Lord, up above, can’t you know I’m pinin’
Tears all in my eyes?
Send down that cloud with a silver linin’
Lift me to Paradise

Show me that river, take me across
And wash all my troubles away
Like that lucky old sun, give me nothin’ to do
But roll around Heaven all day

Good Lord above, can’t you know I’m pinin’
Tears all in my eyes?
Send down that cloud with a silver linin’
Lift me to Paradise

Show me that river, take me across
And wash all my troubles away
Like that lucky old sun, give me nothin’ to do
But roll around Heaven, Heaven, Heaven
Oh, roll around Heaven, Heaven, Heaven all day
Let me roll around in Heaven all day

Session / Album Information

2002

“That Lucky Old Sun,” a duet with k.d. lang, was recorded in March 2002 and released that same year on Tony Bennett & k.d. lang: A Wonderful World. Vocal arrangements were by Rob Mathes. The album was orchestrated and conducted by Peter Matz, with musical direction and arrangements by Lee Musiker.

That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)

Listen to That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett, k.d. lang · 2002

This recording released on:

  • 2002: RPM/Columbia CD: CK 86734 — Tony Bennett & k.d. lang: A Wonderful World
  • 2011: Disc #68 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK66) Tony Bennett & k.d. lang: A Wonderful World

The Skyscraper Blues

Along Fifth Avenue
PROFILE
Composer Gordon Jenkins
Lyricist Tom Adair
Year Written 1949
About The Skyscraper Blues
TBD

Lyrics

The Empire State
The RCA
The Chrysler Building so tall
And so grey

When you’re walking down the street
In New York
And you haven’t got a friend in town
Then a funny thing can happen
A funny thing can happen
When you look at all the buildings
All around

A funny thing can happen
A funny thing can happen
If you let those lonely buildings
Get you down

You get the skyscraper blues
The skyscraper blues
You get the feeling
They’re hemming you in

The Empire State
The RCA
The Chrysler Building so tall
And so grey

They’re looming bold and high
Against the cold, grey sky

And a funny thing can happen
A funny thing can happen
If you let those lonely buildings
Get you down

You get the skyscraper blues
The tall building blues
The wind comes whipping ‘round them
With a moan

It’s murder to lose
Those skyscraper blues
When you walk in New York
Alone

A million faces swarm
All around you
You search them for a friendly smile or two

But they’re only empty faces
That surround you
And you know
They’re as lonesome as you

You’ve got the skyscraper blues
The tall building blues
The wind comes whipping ’round you
With a moan

Yes, it’s murder to lose
Those skyscraper blues
When you walk in New York
Alone

Session / Album Information

1958

The Skyscraper Blues was recorded on November 3, 1958 and was released in 1959 on the album Hometown, My Town. It was arranged by Ralph Burns. Another version of The Skyscraper Blues was recorded on November 6, 1958, but was not used.

The Skyscraper Blues

Listen to The Skyscraper Blues on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 1959

This recording was released on:

  • 1959: Columbia CL 1301 (Mono) Hometown, My Town
  • 2011: Disc #15 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874603-JK15) Hometown, My Town

My Foolish Heart

My Foolish Heart
PROFILE
Composer Victor Young
Lyricist Ned Washington
Year Written 1949
About My Foolish Heart
“My Foolish Heart” was written for a widely-panned film of the same name, based on a J.D. Salinger short story. Time magazine excoriated the score: “nothing offsets the blight of such tear-splashed excesses as the bloop-bleep-bloop of a sentimental ballad on the soundtrack.”

Lyrics

The scene is set for dreaming
Love’s knocking at the door
But oh my heart, I’m reluctant to start
For we’ve been fooled before

The night is like a lovely tune
Beware, my foolish heart
How white the ever constant moon
Take care, my foolish heart

There’s a line between love and fascination
That’s hard to see on an evening such as this
For they both give the very same sensation
When you are lost in the magic of a kiss

Her lips are much too close to mine
Beware, my foolish heart
But should our eager lips combine
Then let the fire start

For this time, it isn’t fascination
Or a dream that will fade and fall apart
It’s love, this time it’s love, my foolish heart

For this time, it isn’t fascination
Or a dream that will fade and fall apart
It’s love, this time it’s love, my foolish heart

Session / Album Information

1958

“My Foolish Heart” was recorded on April 7, 1958 and released in 1958 on the album Long Ago and Far Away. It was arranged by Frank DeVol.

My Foolish Heart

Listen to My Foolish Heart on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 1958

This recording also released on:

  • 2011: Disc #12 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK2) Long Ago and Far Away

1975

“My Foolish Heart” was recorded in June, 1975 and was released that year on The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album.

My Foolish Heart

Bill Evans, Tony Bennett · The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album (Expanded Edition) · Song · 1975

This recording released on:

  • 1975: Fantasy LP 12″: F 9489 — The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
  • 1984: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab LP 12″: MFSL-1-117 — The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
  • 1991: Fantasy CD: OJCCD-439-2 — The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
  • 1991: Columbia CD: CSK 4083 — Forty Years: The Artistry Of Tony Bennett (Promo)
  • 1991: Columbia CD: C4K 46843 — Forty Years – The Artistry Of Tony Bennett
  • 1992: Fantasy/OJC CD: OJCCD 439 — The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
  • 1993: CBS/Sony CD: SRCS-6641 — Forty Years: The Artistry Of Tony Bennett
  • 2000: Fantasy CD: 204392 — The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
  • 2001: JVC XRCD CD: JVCXR-020802 — The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
  • 2004: Columbia/Legacy CD: C5K 92784 — Fifty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett
  • 2006: Fantasy CD: FCD-30177 — The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
  • 2006: Concord CD: CCD-6023-2 — Tony Bennett Sings For Lovers
  • 2009: Concord CD: FAN-31281 — The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings
  • 2011: Disc #52 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK51) The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album
  • 2013: Columbia/Legacy – Sixty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett

Lost in the Stars

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PROFILE
Composer Kurt Weill
Lyricist Maxwell Anderson
Year Written 1949
About Lost in the Stars
“Lost in the Stars” is from the 1949 musical of the same name, based on the 1948 novel by Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country. Set in South Africa in an era when apartheid seemed as if it would never end, the plot concerns a black priest whose son kills, in a robbery attempt, a white man who is a friend of his father. The priest sings this song at the end of the first act, in a complete crisis of faith.

Lyrics

Before Lord God made the sea and the land,
He held all the stars in the palm of his hand.
And they ran through his fingers like grains of sand,
And one little star fell alone.

Then the Lord God hunted through the wide night air
For the little dark star on the wind down there.
And he stated and promised he’d take special care
So it wouldn’t get lost again.

Now a man don’t mind if the stars grow dim
And the clouds blow over and darken him,
So long as the Lord God’s watching over them,
Keeping track of how it all goes on.

But I’ve been walking all the night and the day,
Till my eyes get weary and my head turns gray.
And sometimes it seems maybe God’s gone away,
Forgetting his promise and words he’d say.

And we’re lost out here in the stars.
Little stars, big stars, blowing through the night,
And we’re lost out here in the stars.
Little stars, big stars, blowing through the night,
And we’re lost out here in the stars.

Session / Album Information

1956

Lost in the Stars was recorded on June 6, 1956 and released in 1957 on the album Tony. It was arranged by Percy Faith.

Lost In the Stars

Listen to Lost In the Stars on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 1957

This recording was also released on:

  • 1995: Smithsonian Collection CD: A 24154 — American Songbook Series: Kurt Weill
  • 1995: Smithsonian Collection CD: 4817 — American Songbook Series: Kurt Weill
  • 1995: Smithsonian CD: RD 048-17 — American Songbook Series: Kurt Weill
  • 2007: Proper CD: PROPERBOX 121 — Young Tony
  • 2008: Not Now Music CD: NOT3CD010 — Three Original Hit Albums [UK]
  • 2011: Disc #10 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK10) Tony

1958

Lost in the Stars was recorded on December 22, 1958 and released in 1959 on the album In Person! . It was arranged by Ralph Sharon.

Lost in the Stars

Listen to Lost in the Stars on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett & Count Basie · 2013

This recording was also released on:

  • Columbia LP 12″: LE 10125 — In Person! With Count Basie
  • CBS LP 12″: 35DP159 — In Person! With Count Basie [Japan]
  • CBS LP 12″: 20AP1418 — In Person! With Count Basie [Japan]
  • Philips LP 12″: 840059BY — In Person! With Count Basie [UK]
  • 1959: CBS LP 12″: BPG 62250 — In Person! [UK]
  • 1959: Columbia LP 12″: CS 8104 — In Person! With Count Basie
  • 1959: Columbia LP 12″ (Mono): CL 1294 — In Person! With Count Basie
  • 1959: Philips LP 12″: BBL 7398/SBBL 542 — In Person! With Count Basie [UK]
  • 1991: Columbia CD: C4K 46843 — Forty Years – The Artistry Of Tony Bennett
  • 1993: CBS/Sony CD: SRCS-6641 — Forty Years: The Artistry Of Tony Bennett
  • 1994: Columbia CD: CK 64276 — In Person! With Count Basie
  • 1999: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab CD: UDCD743 — In Person!
  • 2004: Columbia/Legacy CD: C5K 92784 — Fifty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett
  • 2006: RPM/Columbia/Legacy CD: 84786 — Tony Bennett’s Greatest Hits Of The ’50s
  • 2008: Columbia/RPM/Legacy CD: 731397 — The Essential Tony Bennett [Limited Edition 3.0]
  • 2008: Jasmine CD: JASCD482 — Together At Last/A Perfect Combination
  • 2011: Disc #14 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK14) In Person!

1962

“Lost in the Stars” was recorded live at Tony Bennett’s concert at Carnegie Hall on June 9, 1962 and was initially released in 1962 on the album Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall. Ralph Sharon arranged the song.

Lost In The Stars (From "Lost In The Stars") - Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY - June 1962

Listen to Lost In The Stars (From "Lost In The Stars") - Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY - June 1962 on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett, Ralph Sharon & His Orchestra · 1962

This recording released on:

  • 1962: CBS LP 12″: BPG62116 — At Carnegie Hall – Part 1 (UK)
  • 1962: Columbia LP 12″: CS 8705 — At Carnegie Hall – vol.1
  • 1962: Columbia LP 12″: C2L 23 — Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall
  • 1962: Columbia LP 12″: C2S 823 — Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall
  • 1993: Sony Music Special Products CD: 15056 — Tony Bennett Sings for You
  • 1995: Sony Music CD: WK 75012 — Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall
  • 1997: Columbia CD: C2K 64609 — At Carnegie Hall June 9, 1962: Complete Concert
  • 2011: Disc #24 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK24) Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall

1975

“Lost in the Stars” was recorded in 1975 and was released on Tony Bennett Sings Life Is Beautiful. It was arranged by Torrie Zito.

Lost In The Stars

Listen to Lost In The Stars on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 2004

This recording released on:

  • 1975: Improv LP 12″: IMP 7112 — Life Is Beautiful
  • Disky CD: BX 883552 — As Time Goes By
  • 1979: DRG CD: CDMRS 801 — The Special Magic Of Tony Bennett
  • 2000: Horatio Nelson CD: HNRCD9001 — The Essential Tony Bennett (UK)
  • 2002: Recall CD: RECA 353 — Have You Met Miss Jones? [UK]
  • 2004: Concord CD: CCD4-2255 — The Complete Improv Recordings
  • 2011: Disc #49 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK48) Tony Bennett’s Sings Life Is Beautiful

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