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He Left His Heart In Las Vegas: Tony Bennett's "Live at the Sahara: 1964" Arrives In October

September 17, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Tony Bennett - Live at the SaharaWhen Tony Bennett took the stage at Las Vegas’ Sahara on April 8, 1964 he was riding high.  Bennett was in the business of creating standards, after all.  During that seminal year, he released three studio albums immortalizing such songs as “When Joanna Loved Me,” “The Rules of the Road,” and “Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me).”  Columbia Records recorded Bennett’s show live from the Sahara’s Congo Room, but the recording sat on the shelf until 2011 when it was included in Bennett’s Complete Collection box set.  Now, roughly two years after the release of that box, Columbia, RPM and Legacy Recordings are granting Live at the Sahara: Las Vegas 1964 a standalone release in CD and digital formats, due October 8.  It follows the recent release of Bennett/Brubeck: The White House Sessions, Live 1962, which preserves for posterity a remarkable 1962 performance from Bennett and jazz great Dave Brubeck.

Accompanied by longtime musical director Ralph Sharon and his trio as well as Louis Basil’s orchestra, Bennett delivered a diverse set.  Three songs appropriately came from 1964’s Bennett/Sharon Trio collaborative LP When Lights are Low: Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh’s “The Rules of the Road” (previously recorded by the singer in 1961), Billy Mayhew’s “It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie,” and Fats Waller’s classic “Ain’t Misbehavin’.”  Robert Emmett Dolan and Johnny Mercer’s showtune “I’m Way Ahead of the Game” from their short-lived musical Foxy was recorded for When Lights are Low but left unreleased until 2011.  Other selections were still fresh from Bennett’s two albums released in 1963.  From I Wanna Be Around..., Tony performed its title song by Johnny Mercer and Sadie Vimmerstedt – still one of his signatures today – as well as Antonio Carlos Jobim’s bossa nova “Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado).”  From This Is All I Ask, the Sahara audience heard the Al Jolson chestnut “Keep Smiling at Trouble (Trouble’s a Bubble)” and Tex Satterwhite and Frank Scott’s “The Moment of Truth.”  The latter song’s title was also featured on the Sahara’s marquee which proudly read, “The Moment of Truth – Tony Bennett” to trumpet the singer’s engagement.

After the jump: more about Live at the Sahara, including the full track listing and pre-order link!

Bennett’s Vegas setlist was wide-ranging, looking back to his earliest records like 1950’s “Sing You Sinners.”  He also found room for his 1953 hit “Rags to Riches” written by the Broadway team of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross (The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees) Steve Allen’s bright “This Could Be the Start of Something Big,” Coleman and Leigh’s “Firefly,” Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer’s torch song par excellence “One For My Baby (And One More for the Road),” and of course, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”  Bennett’s performance of Cole Porter’s 1951 song “From This Moment On” lent the original Complete Collection CD presentation its title.  (That title has been amended for this release from Live at the Sahara: From This Moment On to Live at the Sahara: Las Vegas 1964.)

No album-specific liner notes were included in The Complete Collection, but Bill Sullivan provides a new essay for this release.  Sullivan writes, “Tony was in a dark suit and black bow tie, standing before a shimmering gold curtain with backing by his forever pianist and arranger, Ralph Sharon; Ralph’s bassist Hal Gaylord; Ralph’s drummer Billy Exiner; and the Louis Basil orchestra.  If you were anywhere else in Las Vegas that night, you were missing it."

On Friday, October 11, Bennett, 87, will play New York’s Radio City Music Hall.  The occasion marks his first performance at the fabled venue since 2007.  Such is the strength of Bennett’s timeless repertoire that it’s likely that the lucky audience there will hear a number of songs performed at the Congo Room in 1964 such as “I Wanna Be Around” and, of course, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”  Live at the Sahara: From This Moment On will arrive in stores just days before the Radio City concert.  Michael Brauer has mixed the concert and Mark Wilder has mastered it for CD.  For those who don’t already own The Complete Collection, here’s your chance to order this sizzling, swinging record from the legendary Tony Bennett!

Tony Bennett, Live at the Sahara: From This Moment On (Columbia/RPM/Legacy, 2013) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

  1. Overture (The Moment of Truth)
  2. This Could Be the Start of Something Big
  3. It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie
  4. Ain’t Misbehavin’
  5. Rags to Riches
  6. Keep Smiling at Trouble (Trouble’s a Bubble)
  7. Time After Time
  8. Sing You Sinners
  9. One For My Baby (And One More for the Road)
  10. The Rules of the Road
  11. One For My Baby (And One More for the Road) (Reprise)
  12. Mam’selle
  13. From This Moment On
  14. Comedy Routine
  15. I’m Way Ahead of the Game
  16. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)
  17. Firefly
  18. Once Upon a Time
  19. Lullaby of Broadway
  20. Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town)
  21. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
  22. I Wanna Be Around
  23. I Left My Heart in San Francisco (Reprise)
  24. Finale (The Moment of Truth)

All tracks first released on Live at the Sahara: From This Moment On, included in The Complete Collection (Columbia/RPM/Legacy 88697 87460-2, 2011)

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Paul M. Mock says

    September 17, 2013 at 12:05 pm

    While this is mostly a very, very good performance it does have some inconsistency in audio quality and the "take over ala Rat Pack" that Milton Berle & CO. do is a bit annoying.

    The one performance everyone says MUST be heard and officially released is Tony's Greek Theatre concert from a year or two later.

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  2. Kevin says

    September 19, 2013 at 9:06 am

    They should really make an edition in the mini-LP cover to go with the big box.

    they should show some support to collectors who bought the box

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  3. Kevin says

    September 19, 2013 at 9:07 am

    Oh, I forgot its there!!

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  4. Paul M. Mock says

    September 19, 2013 at 9:09 am

    I thought this would be the LAST CD they would release separately from the box. It's the biggest collector's item in it!

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