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Tony Bennett: The Playground

{{Infobox album

| name = Tony Bennett: The Playground

| type = studio

| artist = Tony Bennett

| cover = tonybennetttheplayground.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 29, 1998

| recorded = February–June 1998

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length =

| label = Sony

| producer = Tony Bennett, Danny Bennett, Phil Ramone

| prev_title = Tony Bennett on Holiday

| prev_year = 1997

| next_title = Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool

| next_year = 1999

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}Ruhlmann, William. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-playground-mw0000043980 "'The Playground' - Overview"]. AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-01-10.

| rev2 = Los Angeles Times

| rev2Score = favorableHeffley, Lynne. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-nov-05-ca-39405-story.html "Bennett Sings for a Whole New Crowd"]. Los Angeles Times. November 5, 1998. Retrieved 2014-01-10.

}}

Tony Bennett: The Playground is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1998.

On November 8, 2011, Sony Music Distribution included the CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection.{{cite web |title=The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-complete-collection-mw0002217006 |access-date=8 October 2024 |work=allmusic.com |publisher=}}

Track listing

  1. "The Playground" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Bill Evans) – 3:36
  2. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:37
  3. "Dat Dere" (Oscar Brown Jr., Bobby Timmons) – 3:17
  4. "Little Things" - Duet with Elmo (Joe Raposo) – 3:09
  5. "Put On a Happy Face" - Duet with Rosie O'Donnell (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) (From the musical Bye Bye Birdie) – 3:01
  6. "Because We're Kids" (Dr. Seuss, Frederick Hollander) – 3:25
  7. "My Mom" (Walter Donaldson) – 4:38
  8. "Swinging on a Star" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:04
  9. "Bein' Green" - Duet with Kermit the Frog (Raposo) – 2:41
  10. "Firefly" - Duet with Kermit the Frog (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 1:32
  11. "When You Wish Upon a Star" (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington) – 2:58
  12. "(It's Only) A Paper Moon" (Arlen, Yip Harburg, Billy Rose) – 2:49
  13. "The Inchworm" (Frank Loesser) – 2:41
  14. "The Bare Necessities" (Terry Gilkyson) – 2:09
  15. "Make the World Your Own" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) – 3:48
  16. "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn, Bronislaw Kaper) – 2:10
  17. "It's Christmas in Herald Square" (Tony Tamburello/Joyce Vintaloro) – 3:25

Personnel

References

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Category:1997 albums

Category:Tony Bennett albums

Category:Columbia Records albums

Category:Albums produced by Phil Ramone

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