Sony
1965
If I Ruled The World - Songs For The Jet Set
About This Album
Employing Sinatra arranger Don Costa, Tony Bennett put together a concept album similar to Sinatra's Come Fly With Me. Travel was the loose theme that united Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Song Of The Jet" (set in Rio de Janeiro, a photograph of which graces the album cover), "Fly Me To The Moon," and the title song, a Leslie Bricusse-Cyril Ornadel tune from the show Pickwick that was Bennett's latest hit single. There were also two songs from the Richard Rodgers-Stephen Sondheim musical Do I Hear A Waltz?, which was set in Venice. Other sections might not justify the flight theme--Duke Ellington's "Love Scene" was given a "destination" of Harlem on the back cover, and that neighborhood is on no known flight plan--but with such high-quality material, it was hard to complain. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Track List (try tracks 2,3,4,5,8 and 13)

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