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Track Listings
| 1. Exactly Like You |
| 2. La Vie En Rose |
| 3. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) |
| 4. You Can Depend On Me |
| 5. What A Wonderful World |
| 6. That's My Home |
| 7. A Kiss To Build A Dream On |
| 8. I Wonder |
| 9. Dream A Little Dream Of Me |
| 10. You Can't Lose A Broken Heart |
| 11. That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) |
| 12. If We Never Meet Again |
Product Description
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Never mind the project's odd couple, "He's got a girlfriend; so does she" marketing shuck. This is a musical love affair in all its splendor. Produced by the seemingly chameleonic producer T-Bone Burnett (who previously revived traditional bluegrass with spectacular success on O Brother, Where Art Thou?), the septuagenarian legend and his unlikely contemporary foil affectionately court a dozen songs from the Louis Armstrong repertoire with the warmth and natural grace that have been a deceptively effortless Bennett trademark for 50-plus years. The pair kick proceedings off with a playful, irony-free "Exactly Like You," then perform a tender vocal waltz across both the ages and the masterful, sympathetic orchestrations of the late Peter Matz, one of Bennett's longtime collaborators. But it's on the more melancholy performances, like "If We Never Meet Again," "I'm Confessin'," and the Armstrong perennials "Wonderful World" and "Lucky Old Sun," that the pair tap into something akin to timeless musical telepathy. Her own talents hardly in need of burnishing, lang invests the project with some gratifying new smokiness and is rewarded with a postgraduate course in saloon singing for the ages. It's an album that begs the best kind of question: When do we get an encore? --Jerry McCulley
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Amazing album, excellent stocking stuffer
Nov 5 2002
Format:Audio CD
I thought albums like this one would not be made anymore!
This is definately the best album Tony Bennett has ever made. k.d. lang is a more than equal partner for his singing talent, as her smooth and subtle renditions of popular classics all related to Louis Armstrong adds brilliance to hís still surprisingly dynamic voice.
All the songs are outstanding and T-Bone-Burnett's production underlines that. k.d. lang amazes me, she is even better than Tony. The warmth and the love both of these artists have for their material and for each other is obvious and can be heard in every track.
Not all of the tracks ae duetts - there are also solo songs on the CD. So there's no getting bored with this album. I am pleasantly siurprised. This is too good to be true.
This is definately the best album Tony Bennett has ever made. k.d. lang is a more than equal partner for his singing talent, as her smooth and subtle renditions of popular classics all related to Louis Armstrong adds brilliance to hís still surprisingly dynamic voice.
All the songs are outstanding and T-Bone-Burnett's production underlines that. k.d. lang amazes me, she is even better than Tony. The warmth and the love both of these artists have for their material and for each other is obvious and can be heard in every track.
Not all of the tracks ae duetts - there are also solo songs on the CD. So there's no getting bored with this album. I am pleasantly siurprised. This is too good to be true.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Another exquisite release from Tony Bennett...
Nov 6 2002
Format:Audio CD
Since his return to Columbia Records in the 1980s, Tony Bennett has released albums of the best quality...this is one of the best from his already awe-inspiring catalog.
To give equal credit, kd lang has one of the best voices in American music...the combination of their voices is magical.
There is almost no hint of the vocal decline in Bennett's voice that I had been noticing in his most recent albums, such as the Billie Holiday tribute. He sounds to me almost 15 years younger.
Louis Armstrong was a good friend of Tony Bennett's, and I'm confident that Armstrong would be most flattered by the tribute on this album.
This album proves that Tony Bennett, more than anybody else, is keeping the Great American songbook alive and relevant.
I only wish it were longer...it's just 43 minutes. If Sony and the other companies keep raising prices, the consumer deserves a longer product. But at least with a compact disc player you can hit repeat...which I guarantee you will do with this album.
I've listened to hundreds of discs this year, and I'd have to say that this is perhaps the best...a true recording highlight for 2002. This is what sound recording should be all about.
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It was a damaged CD
This is the first time I bought a used CD and I thought it was a perfedt CD,
but when I played it, the last part skipped and I dusted it and it was
still skipping. Read more
but when I played it, the last part skipped and I dusted it and it was
still skipping. Read more
Published 14 months ago by bernice melnyk
If only kd ...
.. would have done this on her own I'd have added the fifth star to my review! Maybe I'm a little partial (I'm a big fan of miss kd) but I think that this project would have been... Read more
Published on Jun 14 2004
MOSTLY Agree w/Other Reviewers...
Only complaint is the "mood" of the music is breached a few times when Tony "talks" a line or two at the end of a song ... Read more
Published on April 25 2004 by BQuimby
Simply Marvelous
This album is the natural culmination of the Tony Bennett-k.d. lang pairing that we first heard back on Tony's "MTV Unplugged" album. On that cd, Tony introduced k.d. Read more
Published on Feb 26 2004
MASTERFUL BLENDING!! BRAVO TONY & k.d. LANG!!!
This is a soothing collection of classics that brings together an unlikely pair of great vocalists who enchant and flow together perfectly!! Read more
Published on Feb 3 2004 by Bradly Briggs
Smooth and relaxing
Relaxing CD for a night on the deck with a glass of wine. Wonderful mix of voices and tunes. You find yourself wanting to tap your foot or hum along. Read more
Published on Jan 14 2004 by DE
Lang tops Bennett
ok....yes, Tony Bennett is a legend, but this performance demonstrates that he has become a song stylist and should consider retirement as the great voice is a bit too rough around... Read more
Published on Jan 13 2004 by "houseseller"
A CD You'll Listen To Again
Although it lacks perfection as some reviewers have noted, I find myself listening to this CD over and over. Read more
Published on July 10 2003 by Richard Lawrence
Mellow music
Very nice, mellow music to relax to. Bennett is always a winner, and KD blends in nicely.
Published on Jun 28 2003 by S. Gabrielson
A great idea that somehow falls short (3.5 stars)
Whoever was inspired to get these two wonderful voices together, to sing the songs of Louis Armstrong, certainly had the right idea. Read more
Published on Jun 15 2003 by Makiko Itoh
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