Release Date: 1/01/1963
Recording Date: 1/1963
Tracks: 18
Length: 00:44:42 Hrs
Label: Columbia
Type: CS,CD,LP
- Genre/Styles
- Ballads, Vocal Pop, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz
Album Tracks (18)
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What the Critics Say
As the studio album followup to Tony Bennett's breakthrough record, I Left My Heart In San Francisco, I Wanna Be Around had a lot to live up to, but since San Francisco was a culmination of Bennett's development, not a fluke, I Wanna Be Around turned out to be almost on a par with its predecessor. "The Good Life" and "I Wanna Be Around" became Top 20 hits, showing that Bennett had somehow found a line into good new pop material, and there were also some excellent arrangements, courtesy of Marty Manning, including a percussion-and-flute reading of "Let's Face The Music And Dance" that echoed the Beat Of My Heart album and a nod to the South American trend with Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Quiet Nights (Corcovado)." A worthy successor. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
