Strike Up the Band (Tony Bennett and Count Basie album)

Strike Up the Band
Studio album by
Tony Bennett and the Count Basie Orchestra
ReleasedMay 1959[1]
RecordedJanuary 3 & 5, 1959
StudioCapitol (New York)
GenreVocal jazz
Length27:01
LabelRoulette
SR-25072
SR-25231
ProducerTeddy Reig
Tony Bennett chronology
In Person!
(1959) 		Strike Up the Band
(1959) 		Hometown, My Town
(1959)
Count Basie Orchestra chronology
In Person!
(1959) 		Strike Up the Band
(1959) 		Breakfast Dance and Barbecue
(1959)
Alternative cover
Basie Swings, Bennett Sings (SR-25072)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]

Strike Up the Band is a 1959 studio album by Tony Bennett with the Count Basie Orchestra. The album was released at first with the title Basie Swings, Bennett Sings as SR-25072, featuring a different cover and track order.

Bennett and Basie recorded two albums together in 1959. The other one, In Person!, was released by Bennett's record label, Columbia, while this album was released by Roulette, Basie's label.

Sony Music Distribution included this CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection, which contains fifty-eight of his studio albums, 4 compilation, three DVDs, six volumes of Bennett’s non-album singles, a previously unreleased CD of his Las Vegas debut from 1964, and two discs of rarities, including Bennett’s first recording, an Army V-Disc of “St. James Infirmary Blues, and was released on November 8, 2011.[4]

Reception

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William Ruhlmann of Allmusic wrote "The band raves through tunes like "With Plenty of Money and You," and Bennett matches them, drawing strength from the bravura arrangements, while band and singer achieve a knowing tenderness on "Growing Pains.""[5]

Track listing

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Side one
  1. "Strike Up the Band" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 1:33
  2. "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 1:44
  3. "Chicago" (Fred Fisher) – 2:07
  4. "With Plenty of Money and You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 1:33
  5. "Anything Goes" (Cole Porter) – 2:20
  6. "Life Is a Song" (Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young) – 2:49
Side two
  1. "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 3:02
  2. "Jeepers Creepers" (Johnny Mercer, Warren) – 2:08
  3. "Growing Pains" (Dorothy Fields, Schwartz) – 3:33
  4. "Poor Little Rich Girl" (Noël Coward) – 3:30
  5. "Are You Havin' Any Fun?" (Sammy Fain, Jack Yellen) – 2:42

The 1990 compact disc reissue included the ballad "After Supper"

Personnel

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The Count Basie Orchestra:

References

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  1. ^ Billboard May 4, 1959
  2. ^ Strike Up the Band at AllMusic
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 148. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  4. ^ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  5. ^ Bennett & Basie Strike Up the Band at AllMusic
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