Here's to the Ladies
Here's to the Ladies is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1995.
The theme of the album was songs made famous by female singers. The album won Bennett the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance. It peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Traditional Jazz Albums chart.
On November 8, 2011, Sony Music Distribution included the CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection.
Critical reception
Entertainment Weekly wrote that Bennett's "sensitivity to the distaff side of prerock music balances the craggy muscularity of his vocal style."Track listing
- "People" 4:44 – Barbra Streisand tribute
- "I'm in Love Again" 3:52 – Peggy Lee tribute
- "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" 3:59 – Judy Garland tribute
- "My Love Went to London" 5:11 – Blossom Dearie tribute
- "Poor Butterfly" 5:43 – Sarah Vaughan tribute
- "Sentimental Journey" 3:29 – Doris Day tribute
- "Cloudy Morning" 4:44 – Carmen McRae tribute
- "Tenderly" 3:47 – Rosemary Clooney tribute
- "Down in the Depths (On the Ninetieth Floor)" 2:11 – Mabel Mercer tribute
- "Moonlight in Vermont" 2:53 – Margaret Whiting tribute
- "Tangerine" 4:06 – Helen O'Connell tribute
- "God Bless the Child" 2:51 – Billie Holiday tribute
- "Daybreak" 3:45 – Dinah Washington tribute
- "You Showed Me the Way" 5:31 – Ella Fitzgerald tribute
- "Honeysuckle Rose" 2:57 – Lena Horne tribute
- "Maybe This Time" 3:26 – Liza Minnelli tribute
- "I Got Rhythm" 2:01 – Ethel Merman tribute
- "My Ideal" 1:55 – Margaret Whiting tribute
Personnel
- Tony Bennett – vocals
- Ralph Sharon – piano
- Clayton Cameron – drums
- Doug Richeson – double bass
- Lew Soloff – trumpet solos
- unidentified session orchestra and big band
- Jorge Calandrelli – arranger, conductor of the orchestral charts
- Bill Holman – arranger, conductor of the Big Band charts