Tony Bennett - The Movie Song Album (1966) and similar items

Catalog Number: CS-9272 Condition Details: Still in ORIGINAL SHRINK-WRAP (opened). Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges;, discoloration (front/back); back is discolored with darker spots around edges and at center. Large tear in shrink on back, split near bottom-right. Inner-sleeve is plastic. Spine is mostly easy-to-read with mild wear. Mild shelf-wear along top-edge; more wear along bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of use. Stereo pressing with red "2-eye" label. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Song From "The Oscar" (Maybe September) Girl Talk (From "Harlow") The Gentle Rain (From "The Gentle Rain") Emily (From "The Americanization Of Emily") The Pawnbroker (From "The Pawnbroker") Samba De Orfeu (From "Black Orpheus") The Shadow Of Your Smile (Love Theme From "The Sandpiper") Smile (From "Modern Times") The Second Time Around (From "High Time") Days Of Wine And Roses (From "Days Of Wine And Roses") Never Too Late (From "Never Too Late") The Trolley Song (From "Meet Me In St. Louis") About The Record: By the mid-1960s, retreating from the rock roll onslaught, that old-time staple of the pre-rock days, the big romantic ballad, had been relegated to Hollywood, where it turned up in the opening and closing credits of movies. Like other classic pop singers, Tony Bennett had sought it out there, and with this album, coincident with his first (and last) acting role in The Oscar, he devoted himself exclusively to movie themes, everything from The Trolley Song (Meet Me In St. Louis) to Days Of Wine And Roses. Some of the tunes were not first-rate, but in The Shadow Of Your Smile and The Second Time Around (previously recorded by Frank Sinatra), Bennett found material worthy of him, and even when he was faced with minor material, be sang movingly.