What Makes It Happen

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PROFILE
Composer Jimmy Van Heusen
Lyricist Sammy Cahn
Year Written 1966
About What Makes It Happen
“What Makes It Happen” was written in 1966 for the Broadway musical Walking Happy. Van Heusen and Cahn were nominated for the Tony award for Best Composer and Lyricist, but lost to Cabaret.

Lyrics

What makes it happen?
What brings the wonder?
What starts the thunder you hear in your heart?
What makes the magic that makes life worthwhile,
Keeps you on Earth while you’re somewhere apart?
One day you’re nothing, next day you’re something
Because of someone you happen to see
What makes it happen?
What makes love happen?
When will it happen to me?
Oh, when will it happen to me?

Session / Album Information

1966

“What Makes It Happen” was recorded on November 26, 1966 and released the next year on the album Tony Makes It Happen! It was arranged by Marion Evans.

What Makes It Happen

Listen to What Makes It Happen on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 1967

This recording released on:

  • 1967: Columbia 45: 4-43954
  • 1967: Columbia LP 12″: CS 9453 — Tony Makes It Happen!
  • 1967: Columbia LP 12″: CL 2653 — Tony Makes It Happen!
  • 1967: CBS LP 12″: SPBG 63055 — Tony Makes It Happen! [UK]
  • 1992: Columbia House Music Collection CD: 2C2 8164 — The Great American Composers: James Van Heusen
  • 2011: Disc #34 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK33) Tony Makes It Happen!

Time To Smile

Johnny Mercer

Johnny Mercer

PROFILE
Composer Geoffrey Clarkson
Lyricist Johnny Mercer
Year Written 1966
About Time To Smile
This song had long been lost and was only discovered in 2004; Bennett’s recording on The Art of Romance was the song’s debut.

Lyrics

Time to smile
And laugh it up awhile
You start it off
And I’ll be next in line

I bet we’ll find to our satisfaction
That we both have started
A chain reaction

When you grin
You let the sunshine in
And when the sun shines in
It’s all worthwhile

No matter what the time of the day is
Any time’s the time to smile
Yes!

So time to smile
Laugh it up awhile
We’re playing dial-a-smile
Here’s how it goes

Get on the phone whenever you’re gloomy
Call me up and whisper your troubles to me

Day or night
The time is always right
There’s not a clock insight
They’re outta style

No matter what the time of the day is
Any time’s the time to
Any time’s the time to
Any time’s the time to smile

Session / Album Information

2004

“Time To Smile” was recorded in 2004 and released that same year on The Art of Romance. This song was arranged by Jorge Calandrelli.

Time To Smile

Listen to Time To Smile on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 2004

This recording released on:

  • 2004: RPM/Columbia CD: CK 92820 — The Art of Romance
  • 2004: Sony Music CD 5187092000 — The Art of Romance (import)
  • 2011: Disc #69 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK67) The Art of Romance

A Time For Love

ATimeForLove
PROFILE
Composer Johnny Mandel
Lyricist Paul Francis Webster
Year Written 1966
About A Time For Love
“A Time For Love” was written for the 1966 movie An American Dream. The song has proven to be a jazz standard and has had many fine recordings, including those by Shirley Horn, Bill Evans, Bill Watrous and Stan Getz.

Lyrics

A time for summer skies
For hummingbirds and butterflies
For tender words that harmonize with love

A time for climbing hills
For leaning out of windowsills
Admiring daffodils above admiring the daffodils above

A time for holding hands together
A time for rainbow colored weather
A time of make believe that we’ve been dreaming of

As time goes drifting by
The willow bends and so do I
But all my friends whatever skies above
I’ve known a time for spring
A time for fall
But best of all
A time for love

Session / Album Information

1966

“A Time For Love” was recorded on June 11, 1966 and released that year on the album A Time For Love.

A Time For Love

Listen to A Time For Love on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 1966

This recording released on:

  • 1966: Columbia 45: 4-43768
  • 1966: CBS LP 12″: SBPG 62800 — A Time For Love [UK]
  • 1966: Columbia LP 12″: CL 2560 — A Time For Love
  • 1966: Columbia LP 12″: CS 9360 — A Time For Love
  • 1969: CBS LP 12″: 63612 — Greatest Hits, Volume II (UK)
  • 1969: Columbia LP 12″: CS 9814 — Tony Bennett’s Greatest Hits, Vol. IV
  • 1972: CBS LP 12″: CBS 68200 — All-Time Greatest Hits [UK]
  • 1972: Columbia LP 12″: KG 31494 — All-Time Greatest Hits
  • 1990: CBS/Sony CD: CSCS-5243 — A Time For Love [Japan]
  • 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
  • 1997:  Columbia CD: CK 65316 — All-Time Greatest Hits   (
  • 2004: Columbia/Legacy CD: C5K 92784 — Fifty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett
  • 2006: RPM/Columbia/Legacy CD: 82876 87233 2 — The Movie Song Album
  • 2011: Disc #33 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK32) A Time For Love

The Shining Sea

Johnny Mandel

Johnny Mandel

PROFILE
Composer Johnny Mandel
Lyricist Peggy Lee
Year Written 1966
About The Shining Sea
“The Shining Sea” was written for the 1966 Cold War comedy The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming. The film concerns a Russian submarine that gets trapped on high ground near a New England town. The town gossip causes mass hysteria, but all is well in the end.

Lyrics

We loved the shining sea
She gathered sea shells there fore me
Her hands, I love her hands

We’d sit there on the sand
She’d kiss the hollow of my hand
A kiss, I miss a kiss

I hear the grey gulls cry
I see them dip their wings
I feel the pounding surf
And other things

I can’t believe she’s gone
I think I’ll go where she might be
I’ll go, I need her so

I need our shining sea

Session / Album Information

1966

“The Shining Sea” was recorded on June 11, 1966 and released that year on the album A Time For Love. It was arranged by the composer, Johnny Mandel.

The Shining Sea

Listen to The Shining Sea on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 1966

This recording released on:

  • 1966: CBS LP 12″: SBPG 62800 — A Time For Love [UK]
  • 1966: Columbia LP 12″: CL 2560 — A Time For Love
  • 1966: Columbia LP 12″: CS 9360 — A Time For Love
  • 1972: Columbia LP 12″: C 31219 — Summer Of ’42
  • 1972: CBS LP 12″: S64848 — Summer Of ’42
  • 1990: CBS/Sony CD: CSCS-5243 — A Time For Love [Japan]
  • 2011: Disc #33 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK32) A Time For Love
  • 2011: Disc #43 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK42) Summer of ’42

Here There and Everywhere

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

PROFILE
Songwriters Paul McCartney, John Lennon
Year Written 1966
About Here, There and Everywhere
“Here, There and Everywhere” was influenced by the Beach Boys’ music. The song was used on The Beatles’ album Revolver.

Lyrics

To lead a better life I need my love to be here…

Here, making each day of the year
Changing my life with the wave of her hand
Nobody can deny that there’s something there

There, running my hands through her hair
Both of us thinking how good it can be
Someone is speaking but she doesn’t know he’s there

I want her everywhere and if she’s beside me
I know I need never care
But to love her is to need her everywhere
Knowing that love is to share

Each one believing that love never dies
Watching her eyes and hoping I’m always there

I want her everywhere and if she’s beside me
I know I need never care
But to love her is to need her everywhere
Knowing that love is to share

Each one believing that love never dies
Watching her eyes and hoping I’m always there

I will be there and everywhere
Here, there and everywhere

Session / Album Information

1969

“Here, There and Everywhere” was recorded on November 17, 1969 and released the following year on the album Tony Sings The Great Hits of Today! It was arranged by Peter Matz.

Here, There And Everywhere

Tony Bennett · Tony Sings The Great Hits Of Today! · Song · 1971

This recording released on:

  • 1970: Columbia LP 12″: CS 9980 — Tony Sings The Great Hits Of Today
  • 2011: Disc #39 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK38) Tony Sings The Great Hits of Today!

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