Tony

Track Listing

It Had To Be You	Isham Jones, Gus Kahn	2:58
You Can Depend On Me	Earl Hines, Charlie Carpenter. Louis Dunlap	2:14
I’m Just a Lucky So-and-So	Duke Ellington, Mack David	3:29
Taking a Chance on Love	Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche	2:09
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love	Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields	2:37
Boulevard of Broken Dreams	Harry Warren, Al Dubin	2:32
I’ll Be Seeing You	Irving Kahal , Sammy Fain	2:48
Always	Irving Berlin	2:59
Love Walked Right In	George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin	2:00
Lost in the Stars	Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson	3:25
Without a Song	Vincent Youmans, Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose	2:48

Sessions

• June 6, 1956
• September 11, 1956
• September 12, 1956
• September 13, 1956

Note

There was a controversy about arranger credits for Tony. While the arrangements for the album are all credited to Ray Coniff, this seems not to be true.

Tony Bennett wrote this in his autobiography The Good Life: The Autobiography of Tony Bennett.

“All the guys–Marion [Evans], Gil [Evans], Neal [Hefti], Don [Costa]–did a tremendous job on the orchestrations for Tony, but you’d never know it from reading the front or back cover of that album. At that time, Columbia was heavily pushing Ray Conniff. He was going to be the new Percy Faith, the next big name in instrumental pop music. Ray conducted the sessions, and he did a good job, but it burned me up that none of the others received any credit on the cover. Over the next few months, I was embarrassed when I ran into them. They’d always ask me why they didn’t get credit. I felt terrible about it.”